Hey kid, wanna buy some classic muscle cars* for 60 cents each?
As with any sentence that starts that way, there are some pretty serious caveats. Like the fact they’re stamps, for instance
The United States Postal Service is releasing a new set of car-based postage stamps next month and we have a bone to pick. No, not that stamp collecting is an absolutely mystifying pastime. Or that the correct placement of a stamp on an envelope is equally mystifying. Top left? Top right? Eh, the postman will figure it out.
Our problem is that for the USPS to feature five seriously desirable machines from America’s golden era of pony cars and not include the Plymouth Hemi Cuda is an action we take more seriously than finding out all our tea has been tipped into Boston Harbour. Well, nearly.
In any case, this whole problem may have started with pony cars, but we’re about to get on our high horse.
Mustang Boss 302, 1969 Camaro Z/28, Challenger R/T... of course. We’re even OK with the rare-groove AMC Javelin. But for the fifth and final place to go to a first-gen Mercury Cougar? That was just a bigger Mustang with Dodge Charger-style headlights, and it only went downhill from there.
Not content with stealing an election by... collecting and delivering legitimate ballots from American citizens, the USPS has now gone and released a so-called Pony Car set and not even included the Plymouth Barracuda. Which... oh, wait. They already did that in 2013. Erm, can anyone send us one of those, please? We’re thinking of starting an album.
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