One of the
German permanent pictorial postmarks I found is used in the Deutscher
Bundestag, the German federal parliament. This used to be in Bonn, but after
the reunification of West Germany and East Germany it was decided that
parliament would return to Berlin. On 2 August 1999 the Bundestag started work
in Berlin.
The Deutsche
Post erected a new post office branch 10117 Berlin 100 in a building on the
corner of Wilhelmstraße and Dorotheenstraße that was not open to the general
public. As with previous post offices near the Bundestag in Bonn a special
pictorial postmark was put in place. The new postmark features the Reichstag
building where parliament sits.
The Deutsche
Post website shows a small selling point in the Wilhelmstraße as part of the
ParlamentsBuchhandlung (Parliament Bookshop). It sells stamps but it is not
possible to send mail from there. The post office Berlin 100 is not listed
officially. The postmark can be obtained by writing to the Sonderstempelstelle in
Berlin.
For this
postmark I used the normal 90 cent definitive from the flower series.
Date sent: 20
April 2017
Date postmark:
27 April 2017
Date received: 3
May 2017
Number of days:
13
Envelope in
collection: 27
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