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5 TRAFIC BETWEEN DANZIG AND POLAND. 

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.