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5 THE MAIN POST AND TELEGRAPH OFFICE

5.1 DOMESTIC MAIL – TRAFFIC BETWEEN DANZIG AND POLAND
The official regulations of the Polish Post
stated that all cash on delivery mail and letters
with proof of receipt had to be sent to the
Polish Post in Danzig regardless of whether it
was addressed to Danzig or Gdańsk.

29 January 1937. Proof of receipt for a letter
from Kościerzyna to Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz
(Danzig Langfuhr). The letter was not
delivered because, according to the annotation,
“Return to Kościerzyna. Wrzeszcz falls within
the delivery area of Danzig”. The affixed label
mentions both the 1930 instruction, which
contained a list of streets where the Polish Post
was allowed to deliver mail, and a general
instruction for the Polish Post from 1935.
POLSKI URZĄD P.-T. No 1 GDAŃSK k cds 30
January 1937. Only 3 items with this label have
been recorded.

22 July 1936. COD letter from Warszawa to Danzig. The postal clerk in Warszawa, aware that all COD mail had to be sent to the
Polish Post in Danzig, changed the address to urząd pocztowy Gdańsk 1 for the avoidance of doubt. POLSKI URZĄD P.-T. GDAŃSK 1
a arrival cds 23 July 1936 on the reverse. The sender paid 50 groszy for a letter between 20 and 100 gram to the Free City and 45
groszy for registration. The same letter would have cost only 80 groszy in case it had been addressed to the Polish Post immediately.