Imitating Influential Americans.

Before you were born, children, there was a government operation called the "United States Postal Service," or USPS for short. The USPS was a kind of ancient email provider -- but without the "e." In fact, the word "email" actually means "electronic mail," which is to say the electronic version of letters and cards, which were, in the days of the USPS, written on paper and delivered by hand, if you can even imagine such extreme inefficiency.


One of the USPS's favorite pastimes was commissioning and selling stamps that commemorated famous and influential heroes of the past and present. Here is one example, circa 2012.


And some USPS customers found it invigorating and uplifting to imitate those heroes whose faces appeared on the stamps they affixed to their envelopes.

What kind of a person would be inclined to imitate a stamp personality, you ask? This kind. The real "Lucia X," who is actually named Lucia B---, and hails from Staten Island, New York.

I hope you learned something today, children. I myself feel less enlightened for having written this post.