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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.