First Lady MICHELLE OBAMA, on my non-traditional maximum card. Is USPS ever going to issue a stamp honoring her? Current policy allows stamps 1 year after death of a US president, and 5 years after death of other people. Well, I used a blank personalized stamp, just as a demo, as a proof-of-concept

First Lady MICHELLE OBAMA, on my non-traditional maximum card. 

I simply superimposed, for now, the postmarked stamp (that's affixed on a transparent mailing address label) onto the commercial postcard.

Is USPS ever going to issue a stamp honoring her? 

Current policy allows stamps 1 year after death of a US president, and 5 years after death of other people. Well, I used a blank personalized stamp, just as a demo, as a proof-of-concept.

Meanwhile, as USPS is left behind, restrictive policies and all, there are numerous countries, that have ALREADY issued stamps with 1 to 4 members of the Obama family!

QUESTION: did all those stamp issuers pay any royalty?

Did they even have to ask permission?

How does this work?

If VALE TUDO [ANTHING GOES], then I could create personalized stamps with all kind of celebrities.

I would circumvent USPS, and use instead other issuers of personalized stamps, from other countries, with a "broader mindset".

If I would receive official confirmation from an intellectual property (IP) "lawyer, lawyer, pants on FEUER" who is not so greedy as to charge me for this info...

I already contacted a few, but they all declined to give me a hint...GREED is thy name!!! :)

Pro-bono their RAS...

How do all these national postal administrations issue so many stamps with so many celebrities, dead or alive?

Tell me, if you know! :)

How about the postcards printers? Did they get permission? Do they pay royalties?

"Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is the wife of the 44th and incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, and is the first African-American First Lady of the United States. 

Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Obama attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School before returning to Chicago and to work at the law firm Sidley Austin, where she met her future husband. 

Subsequently, she worked as part of the staff of Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, and for the University of Chicago Medical Center.

Throughout 2007 and 2008, she helped campaign for her husband's presidential bid and delivered a keynote address at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. 

She is the mother of two daughters, Malia and Sasha, and is the sister of Craig Robinson, men's basketball coach at Oregon State University. 

As the wife of a Senator, and later the First Lady, she has become a fashion icon and role model for women, and an advocate for poverty awareness and healthy eating."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_obama