Box 252 N.y.

This is a cover I have had for some time.

Apparently Box #252, New York City is significant. From what I have read in the past, this was a box that was allocated by the G.P.O. in NYC for belligerent countries during WW 2 for mail to go to the United States. At the time this cover was posted, the U.S. was not yet in the war. Both the Allies and Axis powers sent mail to this box. I believe it was used as a 'liaison' connection (?)

From my understanding, most of the covers required 90 Pfennigs to one Mark postage. Few are known with less as far as I know. I heard that fewer are known with more postage. This is unknown at present.

Anyway, this is a scan of a cover that I have addressed to box #252.

Chimo

Bujutsu

That's a really cool cover !

Here's an interesting read on this very subject:

http://www.scc-online.org/ph08may.pdf

Always finding new reasons to explore postal history by monitoring Stamp Collecting Forum!

Here are a couple excellent resources on the topic:

The World War II "Thomas Cook" Undercover Mail Service between Canada and Norway (720kb PDF)

BNA Topics, Mar-Apr 1976 at page 14 (9.9MB PDF)

Wow, that was fast

Thanks for that information wt1

Chimo

Bujutsu

Just realized the second link I gave above was bad. Fixed.

Since the link that wt1 provided illustrates mail between Canada and Norway, I thought I would show this scan.

During WW II, some Norwegians were based in Toronto for a short time and then moved up in to my neck of the woods and trained here. These were members of the Royal Norwegian Air Force. The location is only 7 miles South of where I live.

The facility was known as "Little Norway'.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Thank you Postmaster.

Will look into that article as well.

Chimo

Bujutsu

More reading on SCF

https://goscf.com/t/8923