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In February 2016, an image purportedly showing an official Bernie Sanders Forever Stamp issued by the United States Postal Service started circulating on social media: The above-displayed image is neither an official item from the United States Postal Service, nor is it an actual stamp. This piece of political postage was created by a self-styled monthly journal of progressive cartoons called The Comic News, and while it was designed to look like a forever stamp (which can be used to mail first class letters forever without having to buy additional postage, no matter what the going rate might be), the above-displayed graphic is actually a portion of an envelope: An image of the actual envelope, which was posted to Facebook in February 2016, clearly shows the Bernie Sanders envelope with a blank space reserved for a stamp:While the above-displayed envelopes are real, they still need a real stamp before they can be mailed via the United States Postal Service. This isn't the first time that The Comic News has issued stamp-ready envelopes with a political flavor. According to founder and publisher Thom Zajac, they've also put out Reagan envelopes and Nixon ones:
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