OFFICIAL POSTCARDS
(1941)

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P300
OFFICIAL POSTCARD
15 Rpf

VALIDITY: 1st Aug 1941 until the end of th war.

BACKGROUND: Issued from 1st Aug 1941 and featuring a Hitler Medallion stamp. Permanent postcards. Text is in Antigua font and the sender's note is now on three lines.

SPECIAL CANCEL:

VARIANTS TO COLLECT

The following are suggested variants that might make good additions to a collection:

1. Cancelled on first day of issue 1st Aug 1941
2. As a domestic long-distance card without any special features
3. As a foreign used card with 15 Rpf
4. As a Registered Delivery card
5. As a local delivery Express Delivery card
6. Used as a Rohrpost (pneumatic) card in BERLIN
7. Domestic Airmail usage
8. Postally unused
9. Domestic Bahnpost usage
10. Invalid Usage - either after expiration date or with incorrect postage applied
11. With Special slogan cancels

EXAMPLES FROM MY COLLECTION

POSTALLY UNUSED

CANCELLED on FIRST DAY of ISSUE

Cancelled on the official issue date 1st Aug 1941

DOMESTIC LONG DISTANCE WITHOUT SPECIAL MARKINGS

FOREIGN USE WITH 15 Rpf

FRANCE

1. This example of a P300 postcard being used to a foreign destination was sent from MUNICH to VESOUL in France on 14th Jul 1944.




2. Another foreign use card, this one sent from OELSNITZ to RENNES in France on 1st Jun 1944 just one week before the Normandy landings.




3. The following card was sent from STUTTGART to PARIS on 28th Jun 1944, just two months before Paris was liberated from the Germans (Battle for Paris 19th to 25th Aug 1944).




4. The following foreign used card was sent from AUSSIG in the SUDETENLAND to PARIS, FRANCE on 14th Apr 1944. This example has a small red rectangular censor stamp number 576.

PORTUGAL

1. The next foreign used card was sent Airmail from KASSEL to LISBON in PORTUGAL on 20th Oct 1941.

SWITZERLAND

1. The next card was sent from STRASSBURG to ZURICH, SWITZERLAND sometime in 1941.




2. Cancelled in GUBEN on 18th Sep 1944 this Airmail example was sent to BASEL in SWITZERLAND.




3. Below is another example destined from BASEL, this one sent from LAHR on 6th Jun 1943.

REGISTERED DELIVERY CARD

1. This example of a domestically used P300 postcard was sent from VIENNA to ZITTAU on 15th Aug 1943. This card was a registered mail item and also has the special handstamp used to commemorate the German Derby.

EXPRESS DELIVERY CARD

POSTED AS ROHRPOST IN BERLIN

DOMESTIC AIRMAIL

GERMAN BAHNPOST

INVALID USAGE

SPECIAL SLOGAN CANCELS

MAIN REFERENCE SOURCES

1. MICHEL GANZSACHEN DEUTSCHLAND 2018. ISBN: 978-3-95402-225-0
2. BOREK GANZSACHEN-SPEZIAL-KATALOG DEUTSCHLAND ab 1933. ISBN: 3-87091-060-7
3. MICHEL BILDPOSTKARTEN- UND MOTIVGANSACHEN KATALOG DEUTSCHLAND 1997. ISBN: 3-87858-631-0
4. GANZSACHEN-HANDBUCH DES "DITTEN REICHES" 1933-1945 by FRECH. ISBN: UNKNOWN