USPS teams up with private company to offer personalised stamps

The U.S postal service has partnered with a private company to offer personalised postage stamps.

Instead of the traditional flags or flowers, you can put anything from your children to a corporate logo on the stamp using your home computer.

A sheet of 20 first class stamps costs more than twice as much as traditional 37-cent stamps.

This is the first time the postal service has parted from tradition and allowed living people on stamps. Because the stamps fall under USPS regulations for metered mail, they are exempt from regular stamp rules, which prohibits living people on stamps and only allows those who have been dead at least 10 years.

Stamps carry a bar code and serial number to prevent counterfeiting.

Each submitted design will be reviewed for controversial or copy written material.