They commissioned

O N E...

B I L L I O N...

pieces of postage adorned with the Fox characters (before the decision to 
produce "Forever" stamps without a specified value), but only 318 million 
of them were sold, the service's inspector general reported in a WaPo 
article<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/simpsons-stamps-cost-postal-service-12-million-in-waste/2012/08/21/1a7442d2-ebb5-11e1-a80b-9f898562d010_story.html>.
 
Of course, they aren't the only design USPS ends up with mostly garbage 
from... still, the deliverer's financial straits aren't solely tied to the 
faulty guessing...



-- BOB

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