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>> POCZTA POLSKA W WOLNYM MIEŚCIE GDAŃSKU 1920 - 1939

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On 1 December 1923, the Polish Post Office in Gdańsk ceased the system of preparing individual parcel cards for parcels arriving from the USA. Instead, the small labels with the table for calculating postage due were simply pasted onto one of the two Customs declarations that were made for each parcel by the American Post Offices.

Left: Label for a parcel sent to Rozdziele Dolne, close to Bochnia in Mało Polska. POLSKI URZĄD POCZTOWY N2 1 GDAŃSK a transit cds 6.5.24 and TARNÓW 2a 31.5.24 of the Customs Post Office. 25 groszy postage due was calculated for transport and 2,70 złoty for Customs handling. ŻEGOCINA K/ BOCHNI a cds 21.6.24 on postage due stamps with a total value 300.000 marks, which were used at the rate 10.000 marks = 1 grosz after 1 May 1924. A mistake was made: 2.950.000 old marks should have been used.
Right: Customs declaration from the US post for a 4½ kg parcel sent from the USA to Szydłów with a FLUSHING MEADOWS PARCEL POST cds FEBR 13 1924, a single-line WOLNO OD CŁA and adapted cds SZYDŁÓW 22.5.24 on the reverse. On the card was calculated 450.000 marks postage due for transport by the Polish post in Gdańsk. POLSKI URZĄD POCZTOWY N2 1 GDAŃSK b cds 1.4.24. Single-line WOLNE OD CŁA and TARNÓW 2 2a cds 20.4.24 of the Customs Post Office. The printing number D.P.i T. Gdańsk. 63 XII. 23. 100.000. suggests that the cards were specially printed for the Polish Post in Gdańsk.

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