Sentence examples for day of issue from inspiring English sources

The issue was a first day of issue, for four South Korean stamps showing flowers and seagulls.

The first day of issue of the new $2 stamp featuring a bobcat has been changed to Friday to coincide with a stamp show in Arlington, Va.

The 22-cent first class stamp, which had its first day of issue in that city on Friday, celebrates Arkansas' 150th anniversary of statehood.

Usually new stamps are available on the day of issue only in the "official" first-day city, but the welling of emotion after the assassination led the Post Office Department to abandon custom.

To obtain the official "First Day of Issue" cancellation, a collector's request had to arrive in Boston by May 29, but one set of covers may have crossed the Atlantic that day to make the deadline.

There is also a pair of the Kennedy stamps, plus a 5-cent flag stamp to pay the airmail rate, canceled "First Day of Issue" on May 29 in Boston.

The Postal Service last Monday also issued a series of five postage stamps during day-of-issue ceremonies at the Dealey Center auditorium at the base, with more than two dozen clerks busily canceling stamps and covers for collectors.

Free and open to the public, the first-day-of-issue ceremony for the American Choreographers stamps, designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Md., is to take place at 10 a.m. at the Victoria Theater of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, where the style of each choreographer will be illustrated in performances by the New York City Ballet, Ailey II and American Ballet Theater.

The first-day-of-issue dedication took place on what would have been Milk's 84th birthday.

The official first-day-of-issue dedication ceremony for Milk's stamp will take place at the White House on May 22, which is known as Harvey Milk Day in California.

Another would be to spin the Postal Service's first-day-of-issue commemorative stamps model into "last day of issue" Met buttons.