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2) The place of destination must be one in the United States of America, Canada. or in the States of Mid! South America capable of being reached via New York in the ordinary course of business.

3) The overall fee to be paid should be
a) for letters 1.5 Gulden
b) for postcards 0.5 Gulden

4) Sendings should be fully franked with either airmail stamps or ordinary postage stamps. Sendings which are either unfranked or insufficiently franked will not be included in the dispatch by airship.

5) Sendings should bear the clearly marked endorsement “Mit Luftschiff ZR III ab Friedrichshafen”. It is recommended also that a green airmail label is affixed.

Sendings which are to be delivered by airship will be accumulated at Danzig Post Office 5 for this purpose having been collected from the various other Post Offices. Before their handover to the airship they will receive in Friedrichshafen the rubber stamp impression “Mit Luftschiff ZR III befördert”. The Postal Administration is unable to guarantee that sendings will not be sent in any other way than by airship to America. In addition neither the day of departure nor the closing time by which sendings must reach Post Office Danzig 5. nor indeed the time when the maximum weight permitted for mail from Danzig will be reached, can be published.”

As mentioned above the maximum weight that sendings from Danzig could have amounted to was 3 Kg according to the arrangement between the PTV Danzig and the RPM Berlin. in the event this amount was not taken full advantage of as only 320g was reached.

The airship ZR II then remained in America, and an extension of Postal business by means of airships could only again be resumed in 1928 when the construction of a new airship was finished. This was in the Autumn in this case. The new airship was given the name “Graf Zeppelin” and the works number LZ 127.

On 8 October 1929 there appeared a new decree number 213 in gazette number 29 of the PTV Danzig, even though. Danzig mail had already been carried on Zeppelin flights again since the Autumn of 1928. The decree said

Forwarding of mail by the airship Graf Zeppelin
With regard to the forwarding on long distance flights of the airship “Graf Zeppelin”, by and large done without special arrangements, ordinary letters andpostcards will be dispatched from Post Offices of the Free State of Danzig under the following conditions:

 

Danzig Report Vol. 1 - Nr. 64 - July - August - September - 1989, Page 10.