Aren't post offices named AFTER a person dies? (HR3667)

[paineinthearse]

House is "debating" the naming of the Brentwood(?) (LA) post office after Karl Malden!

[mainegreen]

1. Stamps for sure, Post offices dunno about n.t.

[soothsayer]

6. can't WAIT for * to be on a stamp!

[dave123williams]

2. He's not dead?

[Davis_X_Machina]

3. Currency and stamps...

...are the only things off limits to living persons.

There were shoving matches at conventions when the Elvis stamp was being rolled out because the true "Elvis is Alive" believers were offended at the government's de facto declaration that The King was -- postally -- dead.

[T Wolf]

4. Funny story about Malden...

Back in college (1972), we were tripping and watching TV. Streets of San Francisco. My future (and current) wife kept asking, "Is his nose really that big?" Of course, we said yes. She said, "It can't be." We assured her that it was.

Only after the next (non-hallucinatory) episode did she explain that, to her, in her condition, she was seeing a nose that was as wide as his entire head. We still get a chuckle over that.

[paineinthearse]

5. It isn't that wide?

Seems to me!

[Freddie Stubbs]

7. No

Post offices, as well as federal courthouses, can be named after whomever Congress chooses to name them after. A few years ago they named the federal courthouse in Allentown, PA, after a retired federal judge who was still living and practicing law.