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6 HEVELIUSPLATZ: THE MAIN POST OFFICE
6.1 DOMESTIC MAIL

In Autumn 1924 the Polish Postał and Telegraphic Management Office moved into the former hospitał building at the Heveliusplatz, in the centre of the city of Gdańsk. In this same building, on 5 January 1925 the main Post Office POLSKI URZĄD POCZTOWO-TELEGRAFICZNY No 3 (Polish Post and Telegraph Office Gdańsk No 3) was opened for the public and started to handle private mail between Poland and Gdańsk.
On the same day, eleven Polish postage stamps overprinted PORT GDAŃSK were issued for the Polish Post in Gdańsk. These stamps were issued for use on correspondence to Poland only. Mail franked with these stamps could either be delivered at the Post Office or directly into one of the ten letter-boxes that were placed in various positions around the city. A Polish mail delivery service was started in part of the city as well, delivering mail received from Poland

 

Above: Postcard sent from Poland to Gdańsk. The card was not cancelled in the sending Post Office and was therefore made invalid in Gdańsk with a blue manuscript cross and a POLSKI URZĄD P.-T. No 3 GDAŃSK a cds 6.7.25.
Below: One of the first registered letters, bearing registration number 5, sent on 5 January 1925, the day the Post Office was opened, from Gdańsk to the Post Ministry in Warszawa. POLSKI URZĄD P.-T. No 3 GDAŃSK b cds 5.1.25 and a boxed POLSKI URZĄD P.-T. No 3 GDAŃSK b registration handstamp. WARSZAWA 1 2 arrival cds 6.1.25 on the reverse. 15 groszy for the letter, 20 for registration and 50 for expres.

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The Polish Post in the Free City of Gdańsk 1920 - 1939, Page 29.