Your Face On A Postage Stamp

The thing about getting your face on a postage stamp in America is you've got to be really well known: a president or a pop star. And you've got to be dead. Ah, what price postal fame.

In Japan, we know exactly what is the price of fame: just under five bucks and you, too, can be immortalized by the post office, CBS News Correspondent Barry Petersen reports for The Early Show.

Just head for one of the Post Office vending machines around Tokyo, pose for the camera, wait for the flash, and out it comes: a regular stamp and, attached to it, the very essence of you.

Going postal around here means sending your self through the mail.

Itsuma Tsurumi is mailing letters to her hometown so friends can see how she's looking these days, a sort of postal Polaroid.

"I'm also going to send one to myself," she says, "so I can get a postmark on MY stamp."

We happened across businessman Kazuo Isono, who's a personal stamp fanatic with stamps of himself and his family.

In the spirit of anything to make a sale, the post office will make stamps of any picture you bring in — shots of a family pet or grandma or how about The Early Show Fab Four: Harry, Julie, Renee and Hannah. You guys now have, as we say around here, the post office.