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DANZIG REPORT
G.P.S STUDY GROUP

Editor: John H. Bloecher Jr., 1743 Little Creek Drive, Baltimore, Md. 21207

Danzig Landpost (Rural Mail) Postmarks

The above cover may contain parallels to your current postal experiences. We don’t mean the Retour part, although we still get back mail to places just across town, properly addressed and franked, with the Postal Serv1ice’s refusa’, to cooperate. Instead, it is the Altmunsterburg/ uber Kaltof. (Freie Stadt Danzig) handstamp that is part of the area being studied in this Report. Most of the article was written years ago by Curt Michaelis, purchased from HJMR (while they were still in business), and translated from the German by Ronny van Waardhuizen. In addition to the original handful of illustrations, we have added many more from different sources. The Landpost phenomena began in 1928, when the Reichpost began a radical modernization of Germany’s rural mail system. Many smaller offices, that were previously designated postal agencies, auxiliary post offices, etc., were then redesignated Poststellen and were made dependent upon motor truck pickups. To better understand these secondary offices, consider a small mail counter housed in a shop, hotel, station, factory, etc. Such places had offered part— time limited services and did not apply a date stamp cancel. Instead they employed a rubber stamp indicating the location of the secondary office.

 

Danzig Report Vol. 1 - Nr. 66 - January - February - March - 1990, Page 1.