Punching Stamps

So Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko, as of today, are together on an official Ukrainian postage stamp. Finally, someone will be able to lick them (ugh, sorry). The stamps are for 1.5 Ukraine Hryvnia -- about 19 cents according to this conversion site.

Sending mail inside paper envelopes is a dying art in the age of Twitter, but in Europe, at least, boxing isn't. Over there they put current boxing heroes on stamps. In the Philippines too: in 2008 they came out with a Manny Pacquiao postage series, honoring several of his hairstyles.

In the USA, snail mail and boxing both have that strong aroma of nostalgia, so we choose to put old-school champs on our official postage. There have been four pro boxing champs on U.S. postage stamps, starting with Joe Louis in 1993, then Rocky Marciano and Jack Dempsey in 1999 and Sugar Ray Robinson in 2006. Palau, Micronesia and other countries (not all of them exotic locales for the Survivor series) have placed Muhammad Ali on postage. So far no James Toney, though. And Floyd Mayweather Jr. is probably holding out for getting his face on money. Also, there are websites now where you are allowed to put your own image of almost anything on a legal U.S. postage stamp.