Early Polish mail links (surface mail): 13-5-1948 registered cover from small locale of CZOSNOW to TEL AVIV "Palestine", franked 60zl & tied by 4 strikes of the local postmark; backstamped 2-07-1948 TEL AVIV head post office arrival. Posted the day before Israel's declaration of independence. Surface mail from Poland was suspended around 7 April, and resumed on 15 June; the transit time by sea was still so long that this cover probably wasn't affected by any actual impediments. Here early incoming mail by sea & rare as from such a small locale. Opened roughly at back but complete and attractive.