Better letters

Can we get a roll of Frogs, please?

Actually, cancel that and give us a roll of Chip Kellys. We’re feeling sort of Ducky today.

On that note, can we also get a roll of the Duck himself? Yes, the ones where he’s hovering over Autzen Stadium.

Since the U.S. Postal Service announced in September that it would begin putting living, breathing human beings on stamps in 2012, we thought we’d create some of our own in case anyone from across this great land of ours needs a stamp that represents one of our famous (we don’t really have any famous people here but play along) citizens and/or beloved icons.

Although popular nominees nationwide include Lady Gaga, Bill Gates, Bob Dylan, Neil Armstrong and Mark Zuckerberg, we wanted some local stamps.

A Kitty Piercy — with actual kitty ears, anyone?

As postal revenues decline in the age of the Internet, the U.S. Postal Service said earlier this year it hoped the move would create some snail-mail excitement.

“Having really nice, relevant, interesting, fun stamps might make a difference in people’s decisions to mail a letter,” Stephen Kearney, the Postal Service’s manager of stamp services, told The New York Times in September.

And who’s more interesting locally than Frog, he of those “Joke Books” the Eugene man has been selling along East 13th Avenue on the University of Oregon campus since what seems like forever?

Or, if someone who has a tad more serious résumé is more to your liking, how about some stamps honoring local hero Col. James P. Dutton Jr., a 1987 Sheldon High School graduate and real-live NASA astronaut?

Or maybe U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio?

Neither is likely to sell like those Elvis stamps that came out in 1993, the most popular U.S. postage stamp ever.

Americans held the Elvis stamps so dear that they considered them, well, unlickable, having saved 124 million of them, according to the Postal Service.

But then Elvis never went into space (did he?) or gave speeches on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.