Šaukėnai 1942

This is a cover sent in 1942 from Šaukėnai to the Šiaulių apylinkės teismo teisėjui/Šiauliai district court. Šaukėnai is a small town in Šiaulių apskritis/Šiauliai county with a population of 800. Most of Lithuania being incorporated in Ostland at that time, they have used German stamps with "Ostland" overprint but regular Reich stamps were also valid. From the postmark you can see that Šaukėnai post office wasn't the state post office called Dienstpost Ostland. Some people call it a "private" post office but I prefer not to because it wasn't really private in a modern sense. Of course, no private company were legally able to provide network of logistics through out entire Ostland for security reason. I would prefer more using the term "postal agent" which was authorized to act as a local window to the state postal service. The examples of the use of regular Reich stamps in Lithuania are surprisingly hard to find. This is probably because the remaining covers are buried among  millions of other Reich covers without being noticed unlike the ones overprinted. There are many philatelists who pay more attention to the catalog values of the stamps and much less to the postmark. Maybe if you can re-check your collection, you might find out that you actually possess a valuable "occupation" postmark. Who knows...