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5 THE MAIN POST AND TELEGRAPH OFFICE

5.2.4 DOMESTIC MAIL - TELEGRAPH SERVICES

One branch of the main Post Office Gdańsk No 3 at the Heveliusplatz was the Telegraph Office which was situated in the same building.
Immediately after 5 January 1925, the day the Heveliusplatz Post Office was opened, only official telegrams could be sent. At the end of December
private telegrams were permitted as well. Until the beginning of January 1930 the office did not have a telegraph connection yet. Telegrams
delivered for transmitting were brought by courier to the Hughes Telegraph Station and transmitted from there. The normal datestamps of Post
Office Gdańsk No 3 (designated No 1 after 1 August 1926) were used on the proofs of posting.
Each telegram received in the Polish Telegraph Office in Danzig was endorsed with a single-line handstamp with the word GDAŃSK, sometimes
with the number of the Post Office and the telephone number and sometimes without, indicating where the telegram had been received.

Telegram sent from Warszawa to Danzig
on 20 February, year unknown.
GDAŃSK 1 TELEF: 24094 single-line
arrival handstamp for telegrams of Post
Office Gdańsk No 1.

24 July 1925. Counterfoil for a private telegram with nine words sent five months before the official
introduction of private telegraph traffic from Danzig to Grudziądz. POLSKI URZĄD P.-T. No 3
GDAŃSK e cds. One złoty minimum fee for the telegram and 12 groszy for the courier.