USPS Can Ban Politics From Novelty Custom Postage Stamps

An artist who designed novelty postage stamps criticizing a U.S. Supreme Court ruling has lost his First Amendment challenge to the U.S. Postal Service’s refusal to print them.

Because the USPS didn’t mean for the personalized postage program to function as a forum for debating public issues, the government is allowed to ban whole categories of content, including politics, if its reasons are legitimate, a D.C. federal judge ruled April 26.

The policy’s purpose is to prevent the public from attributing political messages to the USPS itself, which could draw the agency into controversies or harm its brand, according to ...