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London, April 8 (ANI): Britain’s national postal service Royal Mail has rejected Bamforth’s suggestive postcards featuring buxom women displaying their cleavage as stamp designs.

Leeds firm Bamforth applied to have 10 of its vintage cartoons displayed on customised stamps, known as Smilers. The cards were first produced in 1910.

But the Royal Mail officials deemed seven of the pictures too rude.

“Smilers allow customers to personalise their post by combining one of their own photos with a Royal Mail stamp,” the BBC quoted a Royal Mail spokeswoman as saying.

“There are a number of restrictions on images which can be used on Smilers stamps, including images which may be deemed offensive or depict full or partial nudity,” she said.

The Smilers were planned as a limited edition of 200 sets to celebrate a century of cards and were aimed mainly for collectors.

The 10 postcards were each chosen to represent a different decade of the firm’s history but seven were turned down for the stamps.

However, Bamforth Chairman Ian Wallace said, “They are just fun, you take them for what they are, there’s no malice.

“They [the postcards] are not having a go at anyone, we are having a go at everyone actually.

“This is social history and that point seems to be totally lost on the Royal Mail,” he said. (ANI)