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2 THE HARBOUR POST OFFICE 

2.1 THE EXCHANGE OF MAIL WITH OVERSEAS COUNTRIES

On 1 August 1926 the designated number of the Harbour Post Office was changed from 1 to 3. It was reasoned that in a city with more than one Post Office the main Post Office should
always be designated number 1. The main Post Office at the Heveliusplatz, which had been designated number 3 from 5 January 1925, was at the same time reclassified as number 1.

13 September 1930. Label for a parcel sent from the USA to Zabłotów. GDAŃSK 3 b transit cds 13 September 1930 and a very rare boxed handstamp with automatic numbering GDAŃSK 3 58109. PRZEMYSŁ S.P.A. 24 September 1930 of the Parcel Warehouse of the Customs Post Office. 40 groszy were calculated for customs duties and 90 groszy for customs handling. ZABŁOTÓW b 25 September 1930, the day the parcel was collected, on postage due stamps with a total value of 1,30 złoty. Only two imprints of the boxed handstamp have been recorded.

26 January 1934. Parcel card for two packages of 10½ kg containing weights sent from the Kartuzy Post Office to the Polish Harbour Post Office Gdańsk No 3 in the Free City. KARTUZY C cds, the very rare POLSKI URZĄD POCZTOWY GDAŃSK 3 c arrival cds 27 January 1934 and a signature of the receiving postal employee Rost, the manager of the Post Office, on the reverse.