Need to send a piece of snail mail to an Apple fanatic? Soon, there’ll be a stamp for that.
The United States Postal Service will honor the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs with his own stamp next year. According to a report from The Washington Post, which apparently acquired a secret list of future honorees, the Jobs stamp will be released in 2015 as a collectible.
Other figures who will grace U.S. postage that year include late-night host Johnny Carson, American architect Robert Robinson Taylor and as-yet-unnamed science fiction writers. The designs of these stamps have not yet been made public. You can view the full list of future stamp icons here.
Jobs appearing on a postage stamp is somewhat ironic, of course: As the comedian BJ Novak noted on Twitter, “Few people did more to crush the US Postal Service” than Steve Jobs. By turning Internet-connected personal computers, smartphones and tablets into everyday devices for millions of Americans, Jobs and Apple played a large part in making email, SMS and various other messaging services (worth $19 billion or what have you) viable alternatives to what is now referred to derisively as “snail mail.”
Still, Jobs rose to such prominence as an entrepreneur and businessman in America that he deserved a stamp, and a stamp he will apparently get. The Steve Jobs stamp won’t be here until 2015; in the meantime, if you need to find your nearest post office to pick one up — well, the USPS has a free app in iTunes that will do just that.
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