{"id":129316,"date":"2015-12-31T13:38:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T20:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/31\/to-boldly-deliver-mail-where-no-mail-has-been-delivered-before.html"},"modified":"2015-12-31T13:38:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T20:38:55","slug":"to-boldly-deliver-mail-where-no-mail-has-been-delivered-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/31\/to-boldly-deliver-mail-where-no-mail-has-been-delivered-before.html","title":{"rendered":"To Boldly Deliver Mail Where No Mail Has Been Delivered Before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, maybe not (and who knows what will be going on with the USPS by the end of 2016), <i>but<\/i> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and I&#39;m never altogether comfortable with US stamps &quot;commemorating&quot; living people or living (still protected) intellectual property (i.e., providing free publicity to some corporation), <i>but<\/i> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; dammit, Jim, it&#39;s <i>Star Trek<\/i> stamps. And pretty snazzy ones, too. I can live with that.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Michael Vegas<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Like no letter is delivered before&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.startrek.com\/article\/first-look-star-trek-stamps-coming-for-2016'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/MnbuUUG5dKu4txOC5nPF2fiTGYu0MOWysNUviM06Os3rd9IFNYvAtEYbhNUX-LHAQgjQ82jIjzW6HKQbBiQnS_42eGMvh_lmzvZdW4sSFttk2F8FwCXHUx91pw89EKNaCLagK5-3qObumCGr8qhl3W_B=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.startrek.com\/article\/first-look-star-trek-stamps-coming-for-2016'>FIRST LOOK: Star Trek Stamps Coming for 2016<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nNews &#8211; Star Trek stamps will be issued next year by the United States Postal Service, and StarTrek.com has an exclusive First Look.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/BKZpqCh8XMd'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, maybe not (and who knows what will be going on with the USPS by the end of 2016), but &#8230; &#8230; and I&#39;m never altogether comfortable with US stamps &quot;commemorating&quot; living people or living (still protected) intellectual property (i.e., providing free publicity to some corporation), but &#8230; &#8230; dammit, Jim, it&#39;s Star Trek stamps. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/31\/to-boldly-deliver-mail-where-no-mail-has-been-delivered-before.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;To Boldly Deliver Mail Where No Mail Has Been Delivered Before&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31955,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/29\/i-havent-collected-stamps-for-years-but.html","url_meta":{"origin":129316,"position":0},"title":"I haven&#39;t collected stamps for years, but","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 29-Dec-12 7:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"These commemoratives by the Royal Mail might change my mind. \u00a0Fantastic. 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