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2 THE HARBOUR POST OFFICE

2.1 THE EXCHANGE OF MAIL WITH OVERSEAS COUNTRIES

On 17 March 1927 the
Polish and Danish Postal
Administrations opened the
parcel traffic between
Poland and Denmark
through Danzig. The parcels
were sent from the Exchange
Post Office Gdańsk No 3 to
Copenhagen.

12 July 1927. Parcel card for a 2,3 kg parcel sent from Pinczów to Denmark. Through
the customs office Tczew 2, where it was controlled on 14 July, the parcel arrived in
the Polish Harbour Post Office in Danzig. POLSKI URZĄD POCZTOWY GDAŃSK
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o 3 a cds 15 July 1927. For reasons unknown the parcel couldn’t be sent through
Danzig. The parcel was sent by train through Chojnice (18 July), Bohneidemühl (19
July) and Berlin 4 (20 July) to Warnemünde (20 July). From there it was shipped to
Denmark, it arrived on 21 July in Nykoborg Falster.
Copy of the reverse

On 2 August 1926 the Polish and Norwegian Postal
Administrations opened the parcel traffic between Poland
and Norway through Danzig. The parcels were sent from the
Exchange Post Office Gdańsk No 3 to Stockholm in Sweden
and from there to Norway. In November 1931 the direct
exchange of parcels between Poland and Norway was
opened through Danzig. Exchange Office in Norway became
the Oslo Post Office.

Mailbag tag used in the Norwegian exchange Post Office in
Oslo for sending mailbags with parcels to the Polish Harbour
Post Office in Danzig.