The US Postal Service released the 15 stamps with images of Star
Wars characters on them in celebration of the 30th anniversary of
the release of the original film.
This from Reuters,
The U.S. Postal Service turned to the characters of "Star Wars" for
inspiration on Wednesday as it unveiled 15 new first-class stamps
featuring the whole gang from Chewbacca to Darth Vader.
The stamps were unveiled at Grauman's Chinese theater in Hollywood
where the original "Star Wars" movie opened 30 years ago. The
stamps will go on sale on May 25, after a contest to choose the
most popular of the stamps.
Among the "Star Wars" characters depicted on the stamps are Han
Solo, Luke Skywalker, Yoda, Darth Vader, R2-D2, C-3PO, Princess
Leia, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Boba Fett.
The images are from all six "Star Wars" films and David Failor,
executive director of stamp services for the U.S. Postal Service,
said, "Because of the movies' popularity, we believe these stamps
have the popularity of reaching the blockbuster status of the Elvis
stamp."
Earlier in the month to publicize the new stamps, about 400
mailboxes around the country were designed to look like R2-D2.
