The Virgin Stamp

It was Ezzie who first shared the sad story of the little, old lady who went to the post office to buy Madonna stamps for her holy Christmas cards, only to be told that the cubbard was bare.

We are pleased to report that this story, like most of what Ezzie says, is absolutely not true.

"It's absolutely not true," said Diana Svoboda, spokeswoman for the Pittsburgh [USPS] district. Next year's printing will include a new Madonna and the price stamped over her left shoulder will explain why a new one wasn't printed this year: Rates are going up to 39 cents per letter Jan. 8.

"We had an overabundance of religiously based stamps from last year," she said. The Postal Service needed to sell its overstock of Madonna stamps and didn't want a fresh crop of outdated stamps sitting in the drawers for next year.

Like I said when Ezzie first broke the story, the stamp business is just that - a business. No pointy- headed liberal is telling the USPS what to sell. If they've canceled one type of stamp it was a business decision. But of course Christian America, and their friends like Ezzie, prefer to see Grinches where there are none.