{"id":336,"date":"2007-05-07T13:03:35","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T20:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/07\/usps-jedi-master-mailbox\/"},"modified":"2007-05-07T13:03:35","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T20:03:35","slug":"usps-jedi-master-mailbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/07\/usps-jedi-master-mailbox\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS Jedi Master Mailbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/r2d2-post.jpg\" title=\"r2d2-post.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image335\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/r2d2-post.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"r2d2-post.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/><\/a>While taking my after-lunch walk today, I saw this mailbox painted up to resemble R2D2. Apparently, there is a contest underway to select which Star Wars character gets depicted on a stamp. Yoda is ahead. Click the image for a full-sized view.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/03\/29\/AR2007032902358.html\">Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nUnder cover of night, officials at the USPS stealthily deposited 400 of the costumed letterboxes on high-traffic street corners nationwide &#8212; about a dozen in the Washington area &#8212; to promote a new line of postage stamps. They unbolted mailboxes from sidewalks and replaced them with ones decked in decorative adhesive panels.<\/p>\n<p>The switcheroo, carried out March 16, was intended as a teaser until the new postage design was announced.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-cent stamps &#8212; the rate is going up May 14 &#8212; were unveiled Wednesday in Hollywood to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Star Wars phenomenon. You know the one. And if you don&#8217;t, well, that sort of admission will find you subject to all sorts of derision.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While taking my after-lunch walk today, I saw this mailbox painted up to resemble R2D2. Apparently, there is a contest underway to select which Star Wars&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}