BACKGROUND: As with most nations, the German national postal service was a uniformed organization, whose uniform regulations were altered shortly after the NSDAP achieved political power in January of 1933.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: A dark navy blue wool construction visor cap, featuring a one-piece circular crown, piped in orange and whose internal stiffening wire is still intact, a body with seams to each of its cardinal points, a one-piece center band, also piped in orange along its edges and whose vertical seam is to the reverse, and a blackened visor. Nice alunimum eagle and cockade. The vulcanfibre visor, with a raised lip along its forward edge, is blackened to its upper surface, and tan colored to its underside. The interior of the cap is fully lined in orange-colored oilcloth, and features a nice ersatz alkor sweatband. Size marked 55. Looks unissued.