Urban Outfitters had two items with postal service for sale: a $ 250 sweatshirt and a $ 125 t-shirt, both made by streetwear company Anti Social Social Club. The sweatshirt and t-shirt featured retro USPS logos and muted pastel colors.
But by Tuesday afternoon, the ads had dropped.
If you buy directly from the postal service website, all proceeds go to the USPS. But none of the proceeds from Urban Outfitters’ sweatshirt and t-shirt went to the Postal Service.
Urban Outfitters did not respond to a request for comment on why the website’s items were removed.
However, there is a big difference: Items from Forever 21 were part of an officially licensed clothing line of USPS, and the items of Urban Outfitters were not affiliated with the USPS.
Walmart also sells USPS t-shirts, but when asked about licensing, retailer CNN Business turned to the third-party seller, TeeLuv, and CNN Business did not receive any comments from the seller.
This is not the first time Urban Outfitters have found themselves in hot water. In 2012, the retailer got behind bars for selling shirts resembling Holocaust-era prison uniforms and badges that Nazi Jews were forced to wear. And in 2014, the brand pulled a Kent State University sweatshirt off its website after it was criticized for its design that included blood-like red spots, which many interpreted as a reference to the Kent State Massacre, then four unarmed university students were killed and nine wounded by Ohio National Guard troops as students protested during the 1970 war.
Urban Outfitters’ inventory has fallen more than 31% in the past year.
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