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1 THE POSTAL AND TELEGRAPHIC MANAGEMENT OFFICE

1.1 THE OFFICE FOR UNDERIVERABLE MAIL

One department of the Postal and Telegraph Management Office was the Office for Undeliverable Mail (Dead Letter Office), handling all mail that
for one reason or another could not be delivered or forwarded. In the Office mail was officially opened and closed to find out the sender.

Official seal of the office Officially opened and sealed

27 August 1927. Registered letter sent from Danzig to Szczutowo. On 28 August the letter arrived in Gójsk, a village near Szczutowo. Probably the addressee could not be found there and the letter was forwarded (Dosłać) to Rypin. Manuscript Verweigert (refused) on the reverse and Nie podjęto zwrot Gdańsk (not collected, return to Danzig) on the front. The letter arrived at the Polish Post in Danzig again on 13 September – GDAŃSK 1d datestamp. On 20 September it was written that the sender was unknown in Danzig (Nad. w Gdańsku nieznane), which was confirmed by an imprint of the GDAŃSK 1e datestamp, and on 29 September that the letter was not collected (list nie podjęto). To find out the sender, the letter was officially opened and sealed again (Urzędownie otwarto i zamknięto)
in the office for undeliverable mail by two postal employees on that same day. After that, the letter could be returned to the sender, the Otto Bahlmann Company.