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| This is my design available on Zazzle, displaying those forbidden words: "In God We Trust" |
Claiming my stamp design goes against their guidelines, Zazzle has rejected my order. This is especially strange because I have ordered stamps with this design before. The stamp contains an image of a U.S. Oregon Trail commemorative coin. Designed by the U.S. Mint, the coin contains the phrase "In God We Trust". The curious part of this whole story is that the exact same picture has been used many times before, such as on mailings to our customers.
This time, to our extreme surprise, the order was cancelled by Zazzle. Upon questioning Zazzle as to why - we received the following email:
Thank you for contacting our Content Management Team regarding your cancelled order. We would love to print everything that our customers submit, however we must abide by all applicable laws and standards as well as our own content guidelines and copyright policies.
Because Zazzle Custom Stamps are real postage, they are subject to special Appropriate Use Guidelines, detailed at http://zazzle.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/135. One of these restrictions prohibits the printing of any postage with content that advocates or protests any particular religious, social, political, legal, or moral agenda of any person or entity.
In this instance, your custom stamp design(s) contained the text "in god we trust", so we were unable to fulfill your order.
You were sent an e-mail notification with an explanation, however, please accept our apologies if you did not get that e-mail; it may have been routed to your bulk mail folder.
When we cancelled the order, we immediately issued a full refund to the account used to make your purchase. You can expect the returning funds to be available in your account within the next 7-10 business days, depending on the processing speed of the financial institution that authorized the initial transaction.
We certainly apologize for any inconvenience or disappointment that you may have experienced due to this cancellation and we look forward to delighting you with high quality products in the future!
Best Regards,
Content Management Team
Zazzle Inc.
So let me get this straight. Our stamp order was cancelled because we wanted to use a picture of a U.S. legal tender coin that just happened to contain "In God We Trust". Meanwhile, if you search for Zazzle postage stamps containing coin designs, one of my designs is currently listed as popular.
The use of "In God We Trust" is according to Zazzle Policy: "One of these restrictions prohibits the printing of any postage with content that advocates or protests any particular religious, social, political, legal, or moral agenda of any person or entity". Has God gotten so politically incorrect today, that we can't use it on a U.S. Postage Stamp, but can on a U.S. Coin?
Let's take a moment to think about this!
"One of these restrictions prohibits the printing of any postage with content that advocates or protests any particular religious, social, political, legal, or moral agenda of any person or entity."
ReplyDeleteThat just about excludes EVERYTHING. What a bunch of BS.
When you have religious groups declaring boycotts of stores at Christmas for using Happy Holidays in a sign, and the same group wanting to burn Korans and demand no Mosques near ground zero, even though its against the constitution...are you really that surprised that the Post Office doesn't want to go anywhere near the issue of religion.
ReplyDeletePeople should stop making religion such a big issue, and maybe this problem would go away. But I am not holding my breath.