Hey, kids, don’t try this at home.
An entire press run of a new stamp series will reportedly be destroyed by the cash-strapped US Postal Service because it shows potentially dangerous activities — like doing a headstand without a helmet.
Objections were raised when the USPS’s marketing director asked First Lady Michelle Obama to help launch the “Just Move!” stamp series, according to Linn’s Stamp News, a leading journal for collectors.
The invitation got the President’s Council on Physical Fitness, Sports and Nutrition involved. And the council ended up objecting to three stamps, which show young people doing the helmetless headstand, skateboarding without knee pads and performing a cannonball dive, Linn’s said.
The council apparently had no problem with stamps that showed a baseball batter without a batting helmet and a soccer player without shin or knee pads.
But the deficit-plagued USPS decided to kill all 15 stamps in the series.
The embarrassment comes after the Postal Service said it needed to raise the cost of mailing a first-class letter from 46 to 49 cents, after raising it from 45 cents earlier this year.