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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3619591, member: 76194&quot;]Thank you [USER=15588]@ewomack[/USER] . Out of the three flight day covers from the cape, that one is my favorite too, followed by the cover of the Mercury capsule, followed by the one with the Atlas rocket and John Glenn in black and white.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]969978[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>See, those covers make sense to me because they were cancelled at Cape Canaveral on the day Glenn took off on his flight. These covers were at the place where the event started, so they have a cool factor and nice historical connection to the event... even if not worth much of anything.</p><p><br /></p><p>When they start to get silly is when you see stuff like this....</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]969979[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>One is celebrating his visit to the UN and has UN stamps. And the other celebrates his return party at his hometown in Ohio the next day. That&#039;s crossing the line into plain silliness and smells of a money grab by the greedy post office and the UN. I mean, what&#039;s next, a cover celebrating John Glenn&#039;s first bowel movement when he got back to Earth?</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;ll see the same for other flights. For example, first day covers from Cape Canaveral or Houston on the day Apollo 8 launched or got to the moon make perfect sense due to the two places&#039; connection to the mission and the historical nature of the events. But then you&#039;ll get a dozen silly covers celebrating a bunch of mundane and small aspects of the mission....so many that it&#039;s easy to just get bored and tune everything out. So I try to curate the collection to get around that. Apollo 8 Cape Canaveral cover, ok! Apollo 8 cover celebrating the town where astronaut Jim Lovell went to middle school....no thanks![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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