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Georges Schild: Paketbegleitkarte Operations in Danzig Harbour

Last July. we were pleasantly surprised to find Georges Schild in the Hanza Hotel dining room and took advantage of Stanley Stcrczcwski’s invdation to ride with him to Gdynia. Stanley knew of a hill that overlook_s the harbour that was once known as Gownhafrn during the German occupation. No longer is there a clerk from the Harbourmaster’s Office shouting at photographers. as we saw in ‘ 1990. Things were more relaxed, giving Stanley a chance to explain to Betty. John and Georges the operation of the harbour that overtook r Danzig in shipping during the 1920s. Stanley is at left. Georges at right. The infamous DR- 102, which attempted to analyze the card shown ,, A below, drew corrections from John Whiteside. which set the record straight in DR- 103. Georges Schild also submitted his study of the subject, which we are pleased to present below.

[John Whileside said that Americans and Bills have a problem with package cards since they are not part of our postal operation. Li you are looking for a logical progression of records. you are out of luck. This proves that we hold onto and can explain more easily those events that are most Common.) Georges begins his explanation: 0 Since there was only one post office in the Danzig harbour. the space behind “From America via Danzig No....” is not for the post office designation but for the number of the parcel. (See Georges’ copies on next page.) e The mailing date was obviously not the date 3.13.20. since on that day. the Pakeibeglelikarle was handled by a posunan in Tamow. The original mailing dale must be about 3 week_s sooner, because the parcel came from the U.S. to the Danzig- Polish post office. . Since there was no date-stamp yet.. we don’t know when the parcel arrived from the U.S. or when the Paketbegleitkarfr was filled in.

 

Danzig Report Vol. 1 - Nr. 111 - April - May - June - 2001, Page 3.