What's Your Opinion? New Postmark For First Day Of Sale

From the pages of Linns......





So tell me......How can anyone claim any of these are REAL FDC's ?

Yes, there is a 90 day window, but were all of the earlier FDC's with tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and even millions issued actually canceled on the very first day or are most of those officially sanctioned frauds?

And what ever happened to location, location, location? Won't that special city matter anymore?

This reads "First Day Of Sale" rather than "First Day Of Issue." Will the official locations (I presume they will also have them) still say "First Day Of Issue," instead?

I believe that the official first day city will be the only place to have the first day of issue verbage. All others are considered first day of sale locations, including any postmark that does not say first day of sale cancelling the stamp on its issue date.

IMHO this is a nice thing the USPS is doing for collectors, HOWEVER, it pales in comparison to all the bad policies they have instituted in the last two decades, including non-soakable stamps.

It does bring up the question about how these covers will be handled in the industry since they are obviously not FDC's. I guess we could call them FDSC's.

(For Bobgggg that means First Day of Sale Covers!)

Wow, a whole new collecting area-FDSC's! Don't look for me there.

Gussyboy1

If you are a collector of modern FDC's, it might be to your interest to talk your postmaster into purchasing the new FDOS postmark. Then you can do a dual postmarked cover on with the official FDOI postmark and your local official FDOS postmark, as well as the circular hand cancel for an unofficial FDOS postmark. Of course with that many postmarks and a cachet I would suggest a #10 envelope or larger, the standard 6 1/3 would seem to crowded to me.

Some of that may have to go on the back of the envelope Dude!

I envision someone building an entire collection of the same stamp with postmarks from as many different localities as they can find.

Richard