American Mom In London » Royal Mail http://teawithapplepie.wordpress.com Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:04:06 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/6fb620feb051d44962eaa4f9f67d3535?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png American Mom In London » Royal Mail http://teawithapplepie.wordpress.com So, this is Christmas? http://teawithapplepie.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/so-this-is-christmas/ http://teawithapplepie.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/so-this-is-christmas/#comments Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:44:08 +0000 American Mom http://teawithapplepie.wordpress.com/?p=1466 ]]>

Now that Thanksgiving is SO twelve hours ago, can we talk about something?

I would like to know why THIS was my only option for international holiday postage?

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Don’t recognize her from your childhood nightmare?

The desciption on the Royal Post’s online shop reads…

…featuring Snow White’s Wicked Queen. With her poison apple Snow White’s wicked Queen is guaranteed to raise a boo and a hiss.

A boo and a hiss? How is this even remotely in keeping with the holly, jolly holiday spirit?

The selection of domestic stamps wasn’t any better. They included such “beloved” Christmas characters as…

m509252_large1… a pie-faced Cap’n Hook…

m509240_large… and a pair of ugly transvestites.

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