IvoSteijn
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Also Petrograd, just a different office.
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I think World War 1 put a lot of strain on the postal system, and Petrograd was an important censorship center, so the mountains of mail that had to
be censored there were delayed almost all the time.
The censor marking is Type 13 (in Speeckaert's handbook of censor markings) and is pretty common.
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They're both in the Julian calendar. Petrograd didn't switch to the Gregorian calendar until 1918.
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