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1 THE POSTAL AND TELEGRAPHIC MANAGEMENT OFFICE

1.1 THE OFFICE FOR UNDERIVERABLE MAIL
20 July 1929. Postcard sent by the Office for
Undeliverable Mail at the Polish Post in
Danzig through the Free City Post to
Germany. The office informed the addressee
that a letter sent to him through the Polish
Post could not be forwarded because the
Polish Post in Danzig handled only mail to
Poland. (For this reason, the office was
obliged to send the card through the Free City
Post to Germany.) The letter was being
considered as undeliverable because the
sender was unknown and would be destroyed
in case the sender or addressee would not
show up. The addressee is asked to send
stamps for the postage in case he is interested
in receiving the letter. The official seal of the
office was used to indicate the sender. The only
recorded correspondence from the office.
By decision of the Ministry
for Posts the Offices for
Undeliverable Mail as
independent units reporting
directly to the regional postal
management offices were
officially closed from 31
October 1934. Starting from 1
November at the main post
office in each postal
management region a special
Department for Undeliverable
Mail (Oddział niedoręczalnych przesyłek) had to be
established. At the Polish Post
in Danzig the department
became part of Post Office
Gdańsk No 1.

26 December 1937. Local letter. The envelope is endorsed Niedozwolone (not allowed) on the front because it was
not allowed to send local mail through the Polish Post in Danzig. For reasons unknown nothing was done with the
letter for more than 1 year, Nadawca nieznany (sender unknown) together with a POLSKI URZĄD P.-T. GDAŃSK 1
g 11 October 1938 on the reverse. The cover was then sent to the office for undeliverable mail where it was
officially opened and resealed (Urzędownie otwarto i zamknięto) to find out the sender on 21 October, as confirmed
by the letterhead handstamp of the office. The contents did not show the sender: Brak nadawcy in red. It is unclear
what happened with the letter after that, usually such mail was sold through public auctions.