The U.S. Postal Service thought it had a great new stamp. The Las Vegas is thrilled. A new First Class stamp just released doesn’t feature the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor.

Instead, it pictures a fiberglass replica out in front of a casino on Sin City’s main strip.

“You might think that the post office would have just gone with the original,” report Kim Severson and Matthew Healey in today’s New York Times, “the one that for 125 years has welcomed millions of the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Instead, the postal service accidentally used the 14-year-old statue that presides over thousands of weary gamblers a week.”

Linn’s Stamp News, the authority among die-hard philatelists, broke the story last week.

The post office is embarrassed, but will not recall the stamp, according to the New York Post.

“We still love the stamp design and would have selected this photograph anyway,” Postal Service spokesman Roy Betts told New York magazine.

So, what’s the difference between the two ladies?

“The hair is different,” notes the Times. “The replica’s eyes are much more sharply defined. A rectangular patch — a plaque, maybe? — is on the replica’s center spike.”