| Term |
Meaning |
| Fast Colors |
Inks resistant to fading. |
| FDC |
First-day cover. A cover
bearing a stamp tied by a cancellation showing the
date of the official first day of issue of that stamp. |
| Field Post Office |
A military postal service
operating in the field, either on land or at sea.
Frequently abbreviated FPO. |
| Find |
A new discovery, usually of
something that was not known to exist. It can be a
single item or a hoard of stamps or covers. |
| First day cover |
A cover bearing postage
stamps postmarked and sent through the post on the
first day they were officially authorised for use.
Special postmarks have been used for this purpose in
many countries since the late 1930s. |
| Fiscal |
A revenue stamp or similar
label denoting the payment of tax. Fiscals are
ordinarily affixed to documents and canceled by pen,
canceler or mutilation. Because of their similarity to
postage stamps, fiscals have occasionally been used
either legally or illegally to prepay postage. See
also Postal fiscal, Revenues. |
| Fiscal stamps |
Stamps intended for the
collection of taxes, fees and duties for the revenue
of the state, as opposed to those intended primarily
for postal or telegraphic purposes. Such stamps which
are subsequently permitted for postal use are said to
be Postal Fiscals. Conversely unified stamps (i.e.
those inscribed for postage and revenue) used for
non-postal purposes would be regarded as fiscals.
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