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1) Sendings to any destination are permitted.
2) The individual weight of a letter should not exceed 20g.
3) The overall fee will, total r for a postcard •- 80 Pfennigs ‘f6r a letter 1.60 Gulden
4) Sendings should be fully franked with airmail or other stamps. Unfranked or insufficiently franked sendings will be returned to the sender.
5) Sendings should be clearly marked with the endorsement “Mit Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin” and will be routed via Post Office 5 in Danzig.
6) Senders must quote their return address.

Planned for the near future are
1) a flight from Friedrichshafen via Silesia to Berlin, probably landing in Berlin.
2) a flight from Friedrichshaferi to Holland and back.
3) later perhaps an outward and return flight to Romania.

It is possible that the order of flights or the proposed routes could be changed.

On each occasion items for airmail are first to be taken to Friedrichshafen in order to connect with the flight.The DRP reserves the right’to allow items to be returned to a particular landing place,. a drop position or to Friedrichshafen. Before handing over to the airship each item is to be endorsed “Mit Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin

The airship’s postal agency takes responsibility for the airmail during the actual flight.. These sendings will then be endorsed with a dispatch handstamp identifying the “Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin” as the means of transport plus an impression of the special handstamp.

The PTV gazette will publish the details of when each flight carrying mail will take place and to which locality post is to be handed over.”

Zeppelin mail 1928
Serial  number 2
Sieger 21 number

Flight to America 1928, 11th to 15th October 1928. Mail items received an oval forwarding endorsement “Mit Luftschiff LZ 127 befördert”. 103 postcards and 48 letters were dispatched from Danzig.

The return flight constituted a first flight for post from the USA by Zeppelin. For this was used a large, violet, special handstamp “First Flight Air mail via Graf Zeppelin United States Germany, Oct.28, 1928”. Specimens of this special stamp are to be found on mail to Danzig.

 

Danzig Report Vol. 1 - Nr. 64 - July - August - September - 1989, Page 11.