The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Sandy:

Michelle, check with your local post office, but you can probably still use your old stamps. Just buy a bunch of 1, 2 or 5 cent stamps and stick them on beside the old one. The post office cares about the total, not about how it's reached.

Serge, Canada is quite happy to share you with other countries, but some are more possessive.

My son's class is doing Hanukkah for the concert. (Each class does a different celebration.) They're doing a song about a dreidel, and one of them will mumble a bit about not enough oil for the lamp. He wants to convert because they get presents on each of eight days.

The local Catholic school board [1] has been told they have to have a Seasonal concert. I dunno, the schools all have crosses on the front and they get an hour or two a week of religion, and they can't celebrate Christmas?

As for stamps, Canadians can have stamps made from their own pictures. A quick check of the rules says you have to own the rights to the picture and have permission from anyone appearing in it, but nothing about appropriate or inappropriate or religious or anything. Doesn't even say it has to follow the rules of Canada. That ... could get interesting.


[1] Yes, thanks to ancient happenings, Ontario Catholics, about half the population, have the right to educate themselves. None of my Catholic friends think I'm gonna fry, so I suspect they're pretty moderate. And you don't have to be Catholic to go, though I suspect they'd object if you were rude in religion class.

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