Marvin Gaye Forever (Stamp)

Have you seen the Marvin Gaye stamp?

It makes me happy.

The image is great. It’s hard to disagree that Marvin circa Let’s Get It On in a beard and watch cap is at his most handsome. Younger Marvin obviously is cute as a button (and your heart melts when his voice breaks in Stubbon Kind of Fellow) but early 70s Marvin Gaye: Damn what a handsome man.

But if you’re like, “who even uses stamps anymore?” well, if you need an excuse to write someone a letter and find out, check out the design of the full sheet:

Sheet of Marvin Gaye stamps designed as a 45 rpm record sleeve.
It’s designed to look like the sleeve of a 45 rpm single!

I’m an inveterate letter writer so I had to have them even if I’m all stocked up.

In these times everyone deserves to find a surprise in their mailbox. If no one writes to you but bill collectors and that weirdo who thinks your name is Resident, I’ll send you a postcard if you email me at postcard@damiendabrowski.com.

Anywhere in the world. You don’t even have to say your name if you don’t want to. All I need is a mailing address.

(I promise I won’t do anything with this information besides send you a postcard. You’ll have to trust me.)

Can’t promise a Marvin Gaye Stamp (that’s a first class one anyway, so in the US anyway you’ll get a 35 cent postcard issue one, and you can admire my thrift) but postcards are a joy I’m happy to share, and not unlike the Desperate Bicycles said, if it’s easy and it’s cheap, go and do it!