Yoda Voted to Be Single-Stamp Image

United Press International:
The Jedi master overtook the student in the nationwide vote for the U.S. Postal Service's single-stamp issue commemorating "Star Wars." Darker forces lead the voting early on, but USPS officials in Washington said Yoda was selected as the favorite character for the single stamp to be issued later this summer, the service announced in a news release. The 15-image commemorative sheets -- with images such as Luke Skywalker, Hans Solo's Millennium Falcon and Darth Vader -- went on sale last week at post offices across the nation and were dedicated at the Star Wars Celebration IV in Los Angeles.

(Star Wars groupies are saying USPS officials cheated. There is no way the Yoda stamp beat out the Darth Vader stamp. The feds did not want the Darth Vader stamp to win because the U.S. is called "The Evil Empire" throughout the world. To publish a stamp commemorating "The Evil Empire" would be a public relations disaster.)

Posted by Editor at May 28, 2007 04:33 PM