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In the olden 1960s, we sent a self-addressed UNstamped envelope to the city of issue ahead of time and waited until a few days after the first day. We didn't often see what the stamp would look like until we got our FDC.
But how did we pay for them. Stamps? Coins? I can't imagine asking my mom to write a check for 5 or 8 cents!
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Probably a money/postal order.
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Sending coins through the US mail has been against the USPOD rules since the 1880s (when the first Postal Notes were issued).
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Don, I presume the regulations have been changed at sometime to allow the "collectible" covers that have a coin on the front of the envelope.
Or do they come to the purchaser in a plain brown wrapper. Probably get lost in the post otherwise.
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As a kid, I would send coins thru the mail - usually for a "special offer" on a cereal box or magazine/comic book page.....
...seemed to always get through as I recall....
Sorry - a bit off topic.
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USPOD must not have enforced that 1880s rule because, like Musicman, I sent coins (plus Ovaltine labels?) to pay for a Captain Midnight Decoder and other juvenile temptations. X-Ray Spex always seemed to good to be true.
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and I have a banker's box full of marketing mailers with dimes from the March of Dimes and nickles from feed the hungry and three pennies, which will feed....
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I sent coins plus a #6 addressed envelope (or 2) for my FDCs. I remember sending coins taped to a filler card plus some #6s to the Canal Zone to obtain FDCs for the missing bridge error that the USPOD was supposed to reprint, but was stopped by a court decision brought by the HE Harris company if my memory serves me right. It was all returned to me, coins and all.
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The one cover I ever sent off to get a first day cancel was for the Mississippi statehood stamp. I enclosed a regular size self-addressed envelope in a business envelope with an index card with a coin taped to it. I still have the cancelled first day cover that was returned to me.
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Thanks to recent posters copy and jb.
The coin/tape technique sounds familiar. I can see why USPS prefers its mostly automated process. But it does take away the suspense of not seeing the design until it arrives with the First Day cancellation.
I remember my disappointment, though, at first seeing the drab JFK stamp on my home-made FDC.
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Well, at least I got to have a haircut in the Penny Lane barber shop.
23 Sep 2020
10:29:50pm
To get a first day cover now, you have to send your own stamped envelope -- often stuck with buying sheets of 10 or 20 -- to USPS in St. Louis.
In the olden 1960s, we sent a self-addressed UNstamped envelope to the city of issue ahead of time and waited until a few days after the first day. We didn't often see what the stamp would look like until we got our FDC.
But how did we pay for them. Stamps? Coins? I can't imagine asking my mom to write a check for 5 or 8 cents!
(No, I don't use circles over my i's anymore.)
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Probably a money/postal order.
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Sending coins through the US mail has been against the USPOD rules since the 1880s (when the first Postal Notes were issued).
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Don, I presume the regulations have been changed at sometime to allow the "collectible" covers that have a coin on the front of the envelope.
Or do they come to the purchaser in a plain brown wrapper. Probably get lost in the post otherwise.
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As a kid, I would send coins thru the mail - usually for a "special offer" on a cereal box or magazine/comic book page.....
...seemed to always get through as I recall....
Sorry - a bit off topic.
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Well, at least I got to have a haircut in the Penny Lane barber shop.
25 Sep 2020
07:58:47am
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USPOD must not have enforced that 1880s rule because, like Musicman, I sent coins (plus Ovaltine labels?) to pay for a Captain Midnight Decoder and other juvenile temptations. X-Ray Spex always seemed to good to be true.
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and I have a banker's box full of marketing mailers with dimes from the March of Dimes and nickles from feed the hungry and three pennies, which will feed....
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I sent coins plus a #6 addressed envelope (or 2) for my FDCs. I remember sending coins taped to a filler card plus some #6s to the Canal Zone to obtain FDCs for the missing bridge error that the USPOD was supposed to reprint, but was stopped by a court decision brought by the HE Harris company if my memory serves me right. It was all returned to me, coins and all.
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The one cover I ever sent off to get a first day cancel was for the Mississippi statehood stamp. I enclosed a regular size self-addressed envelope in a business envelope with an index card with a coin taped to it. I still have the cancelled first day cover that was returned to me.
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Well, at least I got to have a haircut in the Penny Lane barber shop.
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12:40:59pm
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Thanks to recent posters copy and jb.
The coin/tape technique sounds familiar. I can see why USPS prefers its mostly automated process. But it does take away the suspense of not seeing the design until it arrives with the First Day cancellation.
I remember my disappointment, though, at first seeing the drab JFK stamp on my home-made FDC.
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