Now that the Post Office has the technology to do this see about
personalized postal stamps of photos or drawings:
http://tingilinde.typepad.com/starstuff/2004/08/personalized_ph.html
and
http://www.photo.stamps.com/
 
Be sure to read "Terms and Conditions".
 
As Steve says in Tingilinde about the radio news spot on these:
>The news piece claimed ninety percent of submissions to date have been
>pets.
 
Our in-laws have already ordered ones of their first grandchild.
[Posted in FML issue 4608]