SS Don't Open It, Liebchen! It's From The Gestapo!

[Guest Rick Research]

Imagine getting THIS in the mail!

[Guest Rick Research]

Red wax seal (who saved such a thing for 70 years? ) shared by the Traveling Museum. The seal is "Geheime Staatspolizei" over the eagle, "Aussendienststelle" over "Mainz" over "Staatspolizeistelle Darmstadt"

so... the Secret State Police (sure! Now EVERYBODY on the postie's route knows about it! ) Mainz sub-office for dealings with the public, under jurisdiction of Police HQ Darmstadt is... sending you... birthday greetings?

Edited July 16, 2013 by Rick Research

[W McSwiggan]

Man! That's worse than the externimator arriving with a six foot plastic cockroach mounted on his truck cab...

[Paul R]

I would think that something truly chilling would have been delivered in person, with a truck load of greeters to help in articulating the "message". It would be interesting to know what was written inside.

[Guest Rick Research]

Makes you wonder if this wasn't better than a sausage necked guy in a leather coat. Everybody in the Post Office knew. The route guy would have told all the neighbors--the whole neighborhood would have been watching the recipients after that... and most of them might have missed two goons on the doorstep at 3 A.M. ...

[Auseklis]

How about:

"Dear Volksgenossen,

the GeStaPo office wants to express it's thankfulness for your examplary assistance in capturing a gang of enemies of the state... (and so on)"

[Paul R]

This guy... does his breath smell like bologna?

[sambolini]

I can imagine it would feel much the same as getting one from our own modern day version of the GESTAPO in the USA; the IRS. It's a sick feeling getting one of those at the PO Box. Thankfully, it turned out to be harmless, lol.

Regards,

Sam K.

[alexanderhistorical]

Very cool - have never seen such a seal used on the exterior of an envelope. Likely inter-governmental correspondence.

Bill