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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.