[press release]

Need a break from the merrymaking or the family? Your team isn’t in the playoffs? You’re home alone with no burglars in sight? Check out the new videos on the American First Day Cover Society‘s YouTube channel this weekend. Go to www.afdcs.org/videos.html for previews and links.

The recent programs include Michael Dodd’s “Great Britain First Day Covers – My Collecting Journey.” Dodd writes a regular column for the AFDCS journal First Days, as well as for other publications in Britain and Australia. He also is the author of a book, Caveat Emptor and Other Advice For Philatelists.

Another program is “Weird Stuff First Day Covers,” presented by Lloyd de Vries. The FDC columnist for Linn’s Stamp News and host of The Virtual Stamp Club shows how first day covers can be so much more than just an envelope, a stamp and a cancel.

And Foster Miller tells us about “The Isle of Man – FDCs and Event Covers” from 1973 to the present. His seminar traces the history and culture of the Isle of Man through its first day and event covers. The Isle of Man is located in the Irish Sea off the coast of England and has been postally independent since 1973.

Membership in the AFDCS is not required to view these videos, but with memberships starting at $24 for Internet-only access or $35 with the printed magazine, it is very affordable and a good asset for any first day cover collector, anywhere in the world.

The AFDCS publishes handbooks, catalogues, directories and its bimonthly award-winning journal, First Days. The society also advocates for first day cover collecting and exhibiting, and is a co-host of Great American Stamp Show, which next will be held August 10-13, 2023, in Cleveland, Ohio.

For more information on the AFDCS, visit its website www.afdcs.org, email afdcs@afdcs.org or write to the society at Post Office Box 246, Colonial Beach, VA 22443-0246.