Satan (or your Uncle Murray) on Canadian Stamps??

[Rodd_Hill]

The Canadian Post office is offering to put your photo on a legal Canadian stamp:

http://www.canadapost.ca/CPC2/phil/stamp/picpost_art.html

Note the papagraph quoting the spokesthingy about content:

“We wanted to give Canadians the opportunity to express themselves in their postage,” says Canada Post’s Director of Stamp Products, Micheline Montreuil. “They might choose to customize their stamps with photos of themselves, their family or pets, or with images of a trip abroad.”

Hmmmm…so, let’s say I run a small devil-worship cult group in Nipissing, or perhaps Horsefly. Can I then send in my photo (or charcoal rendering) of the Prince of Darkness, or worse, Ozzy Osbourne, and then use said stamp to mail out invitations to our annual BYOBO (Bring Your Own Burnt Offering) picnic?

I assume, of course, that the legal weasels retained by Canada Post have already thought about the possible abuses of their generous offer, and have guidelines for content (nudity allowed? Corporate logos? Nude corporate logos?).

In the spirit of enquiry, I have emailed Canada Post asking for their content guidelines. If they haven’t covered all the loopholes properly, why not a series of Doper-inspired stamps?

I will update when I hear back from Canada Post (I’m expecting several days’ wait), but in the meantime:

who (or what) would you, the Doper-in-the-street commemorate forever on sticky paper?

What am I bid for this rare first-day cover of the Satan’s Butt stamp? http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=26154 Come along now, philatelists, don’t let this rare issue slip between the cracks!

[Arnold_Winkelried]

I’ve had personalized stamps made in Switzerland. The Switzerland method is the same as the Australian method mentioned at your link:

While Australia led the way in personalized postage tabs, Canada Post goes one important step further by creating a truly custom stamp. The Australian P Stamp is actually two stamps ­ a standard domestic issue attached by perforation to a tab bearing the user’s chosen photo image.

(BTW, the site says the Australians were the first to do this, but I would like to check on that, because Switzerland offered this service in January 1999.)
But as far as I can tell from the site, what the Canadians are doing is different.

In fact, Canada Post holds the worldwide patent for the double-sticker greeting stamp and is investigating more possible uses for this creative offering.

It looks like Canada Post sells a “frame” that’s the actual stamp, and inside you can “sticker” in the picture that they printed on stickers for you. But you could print any picture you want on a sticker yourself, with the right equipment! Those “sticker photo” booths are also pretty common in the USA (at least where I live.) So I imagine you could put anything you want inside the “frame.”

But then again, you can take any piece of paper you want and glue it on an envelope before you drop it in a mailbox. I have in the past taken an ordinary photograph (developed by my local fotomat-type store), glued a piece of cardboard on the back, and used it as a postcard.

[manhattan]

The GQ part of this post having been answered, I’ll move this thread to MPSIMS (which is where the OP informs me he wished to post it in the first place).