first-day cover , FDC (abbreviation)

First-day covers can usually be ordered for the next 30 days.

First-day covers for the following issues should be requested the same way.

First-day covers can be ordered only in sets of five.

Orders for first-day covers within 30 days of issue will be honored.

Here is a list of stamps for which first-day covers may be ordered.

Collectors usually have 30 days from the date of issue to send for first-day covers.

First-day covers will be on sale for 90 days after each stamp is issued.

If they want first-day covers, they have to buy them later from dealers.

Hobbyists who want first-day covers must apply before Jan. 10.

But "official" first-day covers have been fading for years.

In the past decade, other specialties have emerged to compete with modern first-day covers.

Most new first-day covers go for a dollar or less; the extra charges in this program will benefit the fund's environmental projects.

Thus collectors can buy the stamp on Jan. 8 and design unofficial first-day covers.

The deadline for first-day covers is 30 days.

This is well intentioned in the interests of supplying perhaps half a million first-day covers for each issue.

The nationwide sale permits creation of what are known as unofficial first-day covers.

Thus, collecting first-day covers has become more eclectic - and more interesting.

Such trading clubs usually exchange stamps, first-day covers or other items based on current catalogue values.

The federation also offers first-day covers for various combinations of stamps and will supply a price list on request.

Most "first-day covers" are in fact fictions made up by the Postal Service.

There is still time to get first-day covers for new issues: Wyoming, 25 cents, to mark the centennial of statehood.

Dealers who sell first-day covers that they have prepared are naturally worried about being undersold.

The painting was chosen to be the first-day cover of the United Nations' postage stamp in 1985.

Collectors of first-day covers have several choices of individual or combination covers.

- have attracted attention to first-day covers.