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5 THE MAIN POST AND TELEGRAPH OFFICE

5.1 DOMESTIC MAIL – TRAFFIC BETWEEN DANZIG AND POLAND

Polish tourists made mistakes with the
letter-boxes quite often. The official
instructions for the Post in Poland said that
no postage due should be raised on mail
with Port Gdańsk or Polish stamps that were
thrown into a Free City letter box. Not all
post offices applied this instruction in
practice and raised postage due anyway.

27 September 1932. Picture postcard with a
15 groszy Port Gdańsk stamp covering the
rate for picture postcards with a message
exceeding 5 words posted in error in a Free
City letter-box. DANZIG 5 f cds of the Free
City Railway Station Post Office that was
responsible for foreign mail. The Free City
“T” postage due handstamp has been made
invalid in Poland as the card was there
considered as correctly franked.

Picture postcard sent from Danzig to Poznań
with a 15 groszy Port Gdańsk stamp posted
in a Free City letter-box. DANZIG 5b cds and
a written “T” to indicate that postage due
should be raised. In Poznan 30 groszy
postage due, twice the deficit amount, was
raised upon arrival on 28 July 1939 but later
made invalid again with a boxed
UNIEWAZNIONE (invalid) handstamp
because the card was forwarded to another
Post Office. There no postage due was raised.

29 August 1933. Picture postcard sent from
Danzig to Pleszew with a Port Gdańsk stamp
posted in a Free City letter-box. The stamp was
not noticed and cancelled with a DANZIG 5 Als
Reiseziel erwählt sich jeder Danzig und seine
Ostseebäder machine cancellation of the Free
City railway station post office. There is no
postage due indication.