take this a stage further you have the people of the occupied channel islands not only doing first day covers, but lots of interesting combinations, all while having to live under shortages and german rule. i guess what this proves is they tried to make sure, as much as possible, that life went on as normal.
on the channel islands this led to lots of interesting covers. it is not uncommon to see a homemade cover made from a piece of brown paper, in the back of my mind there are even covers made out of old paper potato sacks.
fitting in well with this theme is this advertising card which has 