Postal Service sticks with Potter

Los Angeles Times: Proficiat Postaliosa! If Harry Potter commemorative stamps can cast a solvency spell on the U.S. Postal Service, that’s some magic we can get behind. Tradition-bound philatelists should back off from their complaints.

The stamps, depicting scenes from the movies based on J.K. Rowling’s books, went on sale in late November despite vehement opposition from some serious stamp collectors, who objected that they were both un-American and crassly commercial.

The goal of the Postal Service is clear: It hopes to conjure up some cash, to disapparate some of its red ink. In this era of its financial independence from government, that’s a necessity, and there are worse ways to accomplish it than with a popular boy wizard, even one who isn’t American.