James Edward Day Quotes
We cannot put the face of a person on a stamp unless said person is deceased. My suggestion, therefore, is that you drop dead.
Responding to a letter request of a VIP that his likeness appear on a U.S. Postage stamp: Some say he thought better of his response and when he reviewed it as typed, he did not send it. The disposition is not certain.
James Edward Day, 1914–1996, U.S. Postmaster General (Democrat), Quoted in Conservative Digest, December 1987
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One-liner, soundbytes, have been good political oratory long before TV
James Edward Day was an American lawyer and business executive, most widely known as the United States Postmaster General under whose leadership the ZIP code was introduced.