Stamps: Tiny Squares Full Of Secrets

Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Flora is hosting the Chapped Cheeks Book Club this week, so we’re revisiting one of our favorite episodes: How do U.S. postage stamps come to be? ELT explores the secret world of the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee, the group that decides what gets stuck on America’s envelopes. Guests: Bill Gicker, manager of stamp development at USPS; Jessica, ex-CSAC member; Kam Mak, artist and stamp illustrator. Thanks to caller Elizabeth. “Mr. Stampman” performed by Bobby Lord, Matthew Boll, MR Daniel, and Julia Kaplan. Mail your stamp idea to: Stamp Development / Attn: Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee / 475 L’Enfant Plaza SW, Room 3300 / Washington, DC 20260-3501. Remember: One idea per letter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey listeners I'm away this week. It's my turn to host the Chapcheeks Book Club and I am way behind on Howard's rear end.
0:08.0	So today we are rerunning one of our favorite episodes. It's our little love letter to a certain
0:13.7	government agency and the tiny squares of joy they regularly deliver.
0:18.3	You've reached the Every Little Thing Helpline.
0:23.0	Please leave your very likable and stickable message after the beep.
0:27.0	Hi, I just went to the post office to get myself the new stance, and I was wondering how do stamps come to be.
0:37.0	Hello?
0:41.0	Hey Elizabeth it's Flora from E. L.
0:43.0	Hi Flora.
0:45.0	Uh, are you a philatealist?
0:48.2	Am I a what?
0:50.2	A philatelor?
0:51.2	I don't know what you're saying.
0:53.0	Fletiladilie.
0:55.0	Fletililo?
0:57.0	It sounds like almost sexual in some ways.
1:03.4	It's a word that captures the love between a human and a stamp.
1:09.0	I'm not comfortable using this word from here on now.
1:11.4	You got it. That's going to be rule number one
1:14.9	at this conversation. No more filletally.
1:18.3	Fletally aside, would you consider yourself a stamp freak?
1:23.0	I definitely like had a stamp collection as a kid like the whole soak the envelope get the little stamp.
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