How cool is this? I really need to get my hands on these. If I was there now, I would be sending Potterific mail to all my American friends. I was just wondering today when we might have Harry Potter stamps. I bet it will happen, but probably not for a while. They really went all out with those Star Wars stamps, though, so when they get around to it I'm sure they'll do it right...
LONDON -- Britain issued a series of seven postage stamps depicting the covers of the best-selling Harry Potter books Tuesday, days before the final volume in the series goes on sale.
The Royal Mail said about 340,000 people had pre-ordered the stamps — breaking the record of 300,000 pre-orders set by a series of Beatles stamps released in January.
The Royal Mail also released five stamps featuring the crests of the fictional Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and its houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. Online, fans can personalize the stamps, placing their picture alongside the crest of their favorite house.
The stamps will be on sale at 40,000 British post offices for the next month and online for a year.
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These sound great. I'd love to hear an official count on the personalized ones, and see how many people put themselves into which house.
I've always wondered a bit about what house I'd be put in. I'd love to think I could hang with all those Gryffindors, but how courageous am I really? I don't know. I suspect I might end up in Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw...
But not Slytherin! Anywhere but Slytherin! :-)
Hehe, definitely not Slytherin for me either! And, I'm afraid, definitely not Gryffindor; I love those guys, but I've been thinking lately that I am much more a Baggins than a Took. My courageous streak is buried deep... I'm guessing I would be a Ravenclaw. I might have to get one of those personalized ones. Quite a nifty trinket for a Potter-loving philatelist!
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