Scout mail from the Warsaw Uprising period

The Scout Post Office was already operating on August 2, 1944, in the area of insurgent Warsaw - Śródmieście to be exact. Jerozolimskie Avenue divided it into southern and northern parts - the area was under constant German fire. However, as early as August 4, the scouts managed to literally crawl from one side of the street to the other - thus achieving the goal of reaching the Scouting Headquarters to bring about an agreement with civilian and military authorities to cover the entire city with postal services. The development of regulations for postal officers and the civilian population using their services began immediately. Censorship of correspondence was introduced, and this made it necessary to find suitable personnel - in many cases, these were the parents of letter carriers - scouts of the Grey Regiments. On August 6, 1944, 4 postal divisions were formed, and mailboxes made of wood or cardboard were hung up. Over time, German mailboxes were used - German inscriptions were painted over, and the Polish eagle was additionally decorated with a scout lily.
On August 9, 1944, communiqués were published in the press and in the orders of the Warsaw District Command of the Home Army regarding the establishment of a scout post office to handle private correspondence between civilians and Home Army soldiers. The communiqués gave precise guidelines for the use of mail: letters were to be open, the text, written in clear handwriting, was to contain a maximum of 25 words. Established postal divisions used stamps and date stamps. On the correspondence one encounters handwritten annotations: consecutive numbers of sent letters, censorship markings, and when delivery was not possible annotations, such as "house burned", "cannot be reached". Undelivered letters of civilians were returned to the sender, while military letters were destroyed. Mailboxes were emptied twice a day, no postage was charged, and an appeal was made for newspapers and books to be left near the boxes, intended for the wounded in hospitals. Postcards from the pre-war period were used for correspondence, as well as General Government postcards, but mostly these were from school notebooks. In September 1944, the first stamps of the Home Army Field Post Office were issued by the Military Publishing Works - they had one design and no value
In addition to the undoubted philatelic and historical value, the collection has a huge emotional charge, showing the dramatic experiences of the residents, the courage of young scouts, for which they often paid with their lives.