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Again, no postal service to regular customers was provided, only exchange for overseas parcels and mail between the port of Danzig and Poland, and vice versa.

Re-engraved date stamps were used, changing from 1 to 3 at Gdai{sk 3. At Gdaifsk 1, new date stamps were in use. These were double circle type with bridge and 27mm to 33.5 mni The rarest one of these has diameters of 28.5mm and 20.5mm, with a bridge of 10mm and inscribed POLSKI URZI4D POCZT.-TELEGR.GDANSK 1, with letter g is known used in 1929 to 1930. From 1936, the older types of date stamps were slowly replaced with smaller (diameters 24mm & 17mm) first unification date stamps. Later, from mid-1938, second unification date stamps were introduced (24mm diameter) with the inscription: POLSKI URZ4LD POCZTOWY GDA1SK 1, and a star under the date in place of identification letter. This date stamp is known philatelically used only at Warsaw Post Office N°.1.

For registered mail, rectangular markings were used, with a letter R on the left side and the name of the office, stamped in black or red ink.

Air mail correspondence was administered by Gdatisk 1. At that post office, an auxiliary marking, stamped in violet was used as evidence of payment of an additional air mail fee.

Polish stamps issued for the Polish Post Offices in Danzig, with PORT GDA1<TSK overprints, on definitive Polish issues were, beginning from 1937, also used in Poland. Earlier, their usage, even though having no formal basis, was tolerated.

Polish offices in Danzig also used Polish stamps without overprints, especially on official correspondence, but used internally through the postal service.

On July 10, 1928, airmail service was inaugurated between Poland and the Polish Post Office in GdaAsk 1.

Letters and parcels were accepted for delivery between the post offices of: Warsaw 19 - airport; Lwow 1; Krakow 1; and Poznan 1. From these Post Offices, airmail was sent to the Polish Post Office at Gdaxfsk 1, governed by the regulations for airmail service in Poland.

 

Danzig Report Vol. 1 - Nr. 82 - January - February - March - 1994, Page 11.