How to Order the First Day of Issue Digital Color or Traditional Postmarks

Customers have 60 days to obtain the first day of issue postmarks by mail. They may purchase new stamps at their local Post Office™, by telephone at 800-STAMP-24, or at The Postal Store® website at www.usps.com/shop.

Traditional Postmarks

Customers should affix the stamps to envelopes of their choice, address them to themselves or others, or provide a self-addressed return envelope with sufficient postage large enough to accommodate the canceled item. Mail the request to the corresponding city of issuance. There is no charge for the first 50 postmarks. There is a 5-cent charge for each additional postmark over 50. Customers should submit a check, money order, or credit card for payment. After applying the first day of issue postmark, the Postal Service™ will return the envelopes to the customer by U.S. Mail.

All postmark requests should go to the first day of issue city. The first day of issue city Post Office will then forward in bulk all postmark requests to Cancellation Services, Stamp Fulfillment Services, PO Box 449992, Kansas City, MO 64144-9992 by respective Post Offices.

Digital Color Postmarks

Only select stamp issues offer a digital color postmark. Customers may submit #6 or #10 envelopes constructed of paper rated as “laser safe.” The Postal Service recom­mends envelopes of 80-pound Accent Opaque, acid-free, 9/16" side seams with no glue on the flap. The maximum size of all digital color postmarks is 2" high by 4" long. Allow sufficient space on the envelope to accommodate the postmark. Do not use self-adhesive labels for addresses on the envelope. Two test envelopes must be included. There is a minimum of 10 envelopes at 50 cents per postmark required at the time of servicing. Customers should submit a check, money order, or credit card for payment.

The Postal Service reserves the right to not accept hand-painted and other cachet envelopes that are not compatible with our digital color postmark equipment. The Postal Service also reserves the right to substitute tradi­tional black rubber postmarks if use of nonspecified enve­lopes results in poor image quality or damage to equipment.

Customers should affix the stamps to the envelopes and address them to themselves or others for return through the mail. Or, they may include an additional self-addressed return envelope, large enough to accommodate their can­celed items, with sufficient postage affixed for return of their postmarked items. Mail the request for a first day of issue digital color postmark to the corresponding city of issuance. Post Offices will then forward all customer requests for digital color postmarks to Cancellation Services, Stamp Fulfillment Services, PO Box 449992, Kansas City, MO 64144-9992.

After applying the first day of issue postmark, the Postal Service will return the envelopes to the customer by U.S. Mail.

 

First Day of Issue

Owney the Postal Dog Stamp

Special Cancellations

PO Box 92282

Washington, DC 20090-2282

September 27, 2011

Digital Color Pictorial

2.4706 x 1.3210 inches

 

First Day of Issue

U.S. Merchant Marine Stamp

Postmaster

1 Welwyn Rd.

Great Neck, NY 11021-9998

September 28, 2011

Digital Color Pictorial

2.6736 x 1.1803 inches

 

First Day of Issue

Flags of Our Nation: Set 5 Stamps

Postmaster

850 Twin Rivers Drive

Columbus, OH 43216-9998

October 11, 2011

Black and White Pictorial

2.8100 x 1.2808 inches

 

First Day of Issue

Flags of Our Nation: Set 5 Stamps

Postmaster

850 Twin Rivers Drive

Columbus, OH 43216-9998

October 11, 2011

Digital Color Pictorial

2.6917 x 1.2977 inches

 

First Day of Issue

Eid Stamp

Postmaster

850 Twin Rivers Drive

Columbus, OH 43216-9998

October 12, 2011

Digital Color Pictorial

2.651 x 1.2441 inches

 

First Day of Issue

Send a Hello Stamp

Postmaster

701 N. Loara Street

Anaheim, CA 92803-9998

October 19, 2011

Black and White Pictorial

2.7169 x 1.1505 inches

 

First Day of Issue

Send a Hello Stamp

Postmaster

701 N. Loara Street

Anaheim, CA 92803-9998

October 19, 2011

Digital Color Pictorial

2.5630 x 1.2500 inches

 

First Day of Issue

Edward Hopper Stamp

Postmaster

Provincetown, MA 02657-9998

October 24, 2011

Digital Color Pictorial

2.5055 x 1.2499 inches

 

First Day of Issue

Barbara Jordan Stamp

USPS District Office — Retail

600 N. Sam Houston Pkwy. W

Houston, TX 77067-9997

November 16, 2011

Black and White Pictorial

2.6391 x 1.2558 inches

 

First Day of Issue

Barbara Jordan Stamp

USPS District Office — Retail

600 N. Sam Houston Pkwy. W

Houston, TX 77067-9997

November 16, 2011

Digital Color Pictorial

2.6502 x 1.2416 inches

 

First Day of Issue

Save Vanishing Species Stamp

Special Cancellations

PO Box 92282

Washington, DC 20090-9998

November 21, 2011

Black and White Pictorial

2.7169 x 1.1833 inches

 

First Day of Issue

Save Vanishing Species Stamp

Special Cancellations

PO Box 92282

Washington, DC 20090-9998

November 21, 2011

Digital Color Pictorial

2.5298 x 1.1526 inches

 

First Day of Issue

Romare Bearden Stamp

Postmaster

421 Eighth Ave., Room 2029B

New York, NY 10199-9998

November 28, 2011

Digital Color Pictorial

2.474 x 1.2211 inches

 

First Day of Issue

Holiday Baubles Stamp

Postmaster

421 Eighth Ave., Rm. 2029B

New York, NY 10199-9998

December 13, 2011

Digital Color Pictorial

2.5698 x 1.1925 inches

 

First Day of Issue

Madonna of the Candelabra
by Raphael Stamp

Postmaster

421 Eighth Ave., Rm. 2029B

New York, NY 10199-9998

December 13, 2011

Digital Color Pictorial

2.6612 x 1.2724 inches

 

First Day of Issue

Hanukkah Stamp

Postmaster

421 Eighth Ave., Rm. 2029B

New York, NY 10199-9998

December 14, 2011

Digital Color Pictorial

2.5985 x 1.3086 inches

 

First Day of Issue

Kwanzaa Stamp

Postmaster

421 Eighth Ave., Rm. 2029B

New York, NY 10199-9998

December 14, 2011

Digital Color Pictorial

2.4705 x 1.2446 inches