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Posted 05/21/2023   11:36 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add EdziuMM to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
The cancel on this stamp reads "HADTAP-POSTAHIVATAL".
"Postahivatal" is "post office" in Hungarian, but I haven't been able find the meaning of "hadtap". Can anyone help, please?
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Posted 05/21/2023   11:43 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Petert4522 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
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Posted 05/21/2023   11:46 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Petert4522 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I Googled it, and it is a suburb of Budapest, a bit to the east of the town


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Posted 05/21/2023   11:48 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add EdziuMM to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Yes, I've seen other covers like this one, but none of them gives an explanation of "hadtap" meaning.
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Posted 05/21/2023   11:50 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add EdziuMM to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you, Peter. My Googling attempts were failures.
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Posted 05/21/2023   12:11 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Zuerich4 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Dear EdziuMM

The meaning of "hadtáp postahivatalok" is "Army Post Office". I have found it in "Bányász Péter - A tábori postaszolgálat szerepe a harctéri morál fenntartásában. A tábori postaszolgálatok története a XX. század els#337; felében (The Military Postal Service's role in maintaining morale in the battlefield. The Military history of Postal Services in the first half of the twentieth century). And then used some deepl-Kung-Fu...

Other designations were also explained within the text:
A kezelési szolgálat ellátására a következ#337;k voltak hivatottak: a) tábori f#337;postahivatalok; b) tábori postavezet#337;ségek; c) tábori postahivatalok; d) hadtáp postahivatalok. (The following were responsible for the handling service: a) General Post Offices; b) General Post Offices; c) General Post Offices; d) Army Post Offices.)

This was almost easier to figure out than some of your weekly puzzling picture riddles.

Best regards from Switzerland

André
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Posted 05/21/2023   1:24 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add EdziuMM to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you, Andre!
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