STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 74, sig. 109-1/80

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42 At the same time, branch post offices and post offices are considerably simplified by the introduction of a special service instruction, drawn up in accordance with the conditions at the Deutsche Reichspost, The measures already carried out, which, like the closure of post offices, are important to the public, have been taken with understanding of the need for war. 2. Postal order With effect from 1 May 1944, the new postal order of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was put into effect. BOS The new postal regulation brings a codification of the entire postal usage right, which in recent years was subject to major changes as a result of the integration of the protectorate into the large German postal network. The new postal order has been particularly welcomed in the circles of commerce and the economy, because it has replaced a complex of rules that has become completely confusing and clean. It also made it easier for postal agents to handle the rules and at the same time created the possibility of safe and proper advice for the postal user. e implementing rules on the postal order had to be re-composed. The aim was to reduce it as much as possible; the provisions were deleted in time; provisions which did not directly affect the relationship between postal users and postal users were removed and reserved for intra-service provision.The corresponding implementing provisions were adopted for new provisions, where necessary. With the entry into force of the new postal order, the reform in the field of postal services - as far as it affects the postal user - is completed in the Protectorate. 3. Special stamps On the 55th birthday of the leader and on the 60th anniversary of the death of the compo- nist Smetana (l2. May ), the Bohemian-Mährische Post issued two special stamps each ( 60 h + 140 h surcharge and 120 h + 380 h surcharge). The auction proceeds flow into the cultural fund of the Führer. III. _Luftschutzwesen. After the High Command of the Wehrmacht the Oberkommandos of the German Wehrmascht parts