The Royal Mail on January 13 will issue a set of first class stamps commemorating ten British design icons. Among them: The Mini car, the mini skirt, the red telephone kiosk, and (my favorite!) the orange and white Penguin book cover. I have a confession: I once had to buy an extra suitcase because I was hauling too many UK-issue-only Penguin books home from London. US customs was not amused. Neither were the baggage handlers. 
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It's hard to tell which is more delicious--the designs on these stamps or the French bakery goods below. A taste for the UK Penguin editions of the classics is the mark of a genuinely refined sensibility. They're books for the hand, as well as the eye. Seeing them on my shelf makes me feel better about life, myself--and the world.
Why can't the US Postal Service come up with classy stamp designs like these? I'd like to see Bruce Lee on a stamp. That would be cool!
my mom is from England and still collects English stamps (now lives in the U.S.). I always like British stamps better than American ones.
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