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Old USPS logo: what do you see?

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Only as an adult do I know that this is an eagle. Has everyone always seen this as an eagle? I had wondered if people saw this differently, like the two faces vs. vases, or the old woman and young woman illusion, or the Batman logo vs. teeth. Anyway, when I google USPS logo and a man in a hat, all I get are hits of the logo on a hat. I felt I was the only one but my wife just told me she didn’t necessarily see it as that, but hadn’t recognized it as being an eagle.

What I saw was the silhouette of a guy wearing an old hat, like maybe a really long scally cap (not sure what those would be called). I’m wondering if I had this association because somewhere very early in school, like early kindergarten, we learned all about the Pony Express. Here’s an image from Wikipedia for the Pony Express:

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Obviously that’s a different hat that what could be seen in the “silhouette,” but you get the idea. The more proximal part of the eagle’s wing would be the face/profile while the distal part of the wing is the hat, the eagle’s face was like a lanyard for the satchel/pouch that carries the mail.

I dunno. Has everyone always seen an eagle?
 
You, sir, are playing with forces you clearly do not fully comprehend.

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these courageous couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

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Only as an adult do I know that this is an eagle. Has everyone always seen this as an eagle? I had wondered if people saw this differently, like the two faces vs. vases, or the old woman and young woman illusion, or the Batman logo vs. teeth. Anyway, when I google USPS logo and a man in a hat, all I get are hits of the logo on a hat. I felt I was the only one but my wife just told me she didn’t necessarily see it as that, but hadn’t recognized it as being an eagle.

What I saw was the silhouette of a guy wearing an old hat, like maybe a really long scally cap (not sure what those would be called). I’m wondering if I had this association because somewhere very early in school, like early kindergarten, we learned all about the Pony Express. Here’s an image from Wikipedia for the Pony Express:

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Obviously that’s a different hat that what could be seen in the “silhouette,” but you get the idea. The more proximal part of the eagle’s wing would be the face/profile while the distal part of the wing is the hat, the eagle’s face was like a lanyard for the satchel/pouch that carries the mail.

I dunno. Has everyone always seen an eagle?
How much LSD did you do as a child?
 
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