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Post Offices OAKDALE to OLIJVENBOSCHKRAAL

OAKDALE
22.09.1952 to Republic
Area: Cape Town
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmarks known

OAKGROVE
01.08.1913 to 18.11.1925
1927 to 28.04.1943
Area: Transkei
1   2C "?"
Visser		  
(Visser)		    

OAK TREE
03.05.1926 to 28.10.1929
Area: West Rand
NOT  RECORDED

OATLANDS (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Graaff-Reinet
1   1C "Blank" First seen:
 21.04.1884
(Frescura)		 Union 10.04.1928
(Aab)		  
2 "RAIL" 1C "Blank"  
(Aab)		 1956
(Aab)		  

OBERHOLZER
01.09.1912 to Republic
Area: West Rand
1   1C "S.AFRICA"  
(Putzel)		 06.06.1951
(Aab)		  

OBSERVATORY (ROAD)
Union to Republic
Area: Cape Town
1 "ROAD" 1C "CGH" Spelt Road

First seen:
02.09.1898
(Frescura)		 Union 14.05.1917
(Aab)		  
2 "ROAD" 2C "Bars + cross" Name 8 to 4 o'clock

First seen:
25.02.1910
(Frescura)		 Union 23.12.1911
(Aab)		  
3 "ROAD" 2C "Bars + cross" Small cross 22.12.1913
(Aab)		 25.05.1917
(Aab)		  
4 "ROAD" 2C "Bars + cross"   Larger cross cross 11.01.1921
(Putzel)		    
5   2C "Blank" 28 mm 24.08.1922
(Putzel)		 06.02.1925
(Aab)		  
6   1C "Blank"   11.01.1922
(Aab)		 10.12.1942
(Putzel)		  
7   2C "Blank"   26 mm
(Putzel)		    
8   2C "Blank" 29 mm 04.08.1927
(Aab)		 1935
(Aab)		  
9   2C "Blank" Smaller font 02.10.1945
(Aab)
(Putzel)		  
10   2C "Blank"
Visser		   04.03.1949
(Visser)		    
11   Parcel    
(Visser)
(Aab)		  

OCEAN POST OFFICE
Union to ?
Area: Cape Town
1   1C   Used on Armandale
CODE 8PM

First seen:
28.05.1904
(Frescura)		 Union 20.03.1911
(Frescura)		  
2   1C   Used on Armandale
CODE B

First seen:
 01.05.1905
(Aab)		 Union 24.02.1912
(Frescura)		  
3   1C   Used on the Kildonan
CODE C

First seen:
17.07.1906
(Aab)		 Union 17.01.1912
(Aab)		  
4   1C     Used on the Balmoral
CODE D

First seen:
02.04.1910
(Frescura)		 Union 18.04.1911
(Frescura)		  
5   1C     Used on the Saxon
CODE E

First seen:
16.06.1900
(Frescura)		 Union 08.07.1911
(Frescura)		  
6   1C  
John Lund		 Used on the Briton
CODE G

First seen:
04.12.1897		 Union ??.??.1911
(Frescura)		  
7   1C   Used on the Briton
CODE H


First seen:
21.05.1910
(Frescura)		 Union 22.08.1911
(Aab)		  
8   1C   Used on the Kinfaus
CODE K


First seen:
30.09.1899
(Frescura)		 Union ??.??.1911
(Frescura)		  
9   2C   Index 1 23.04.1912
(Putzel)		 13.03.1913
(Aab)		  
10   2C   Index 2 23.07.1911
(Aab)		    
11   2C   Index 3 02.08.1911
(Aab)		    
12   2C   Index 4 03.08.1912
(Aab)		    
13   2C   Index 6 02.07.1912
(Aab)		 24.07.1912
(Aab)		  

OCKERTSKRAAL
31.05.1926 to 27.04.1959
Area: Ladismith
1   2C "Blank?"
Visser		 30 mm ??.04.1937
(Visser)		    
2   2C "Blank?"   26 mm 1948
(Visser)		 1956
(Visser)		  

OCKIES
01.06.1916 to 27.11.1950
Area: Fraserburg
1   2C "Bars + cross"    
(Putzel)		    

ODENDAALSRUS(T)
Union to Republic
Area: Freestate Goldfields
1   2C "Blank" Odendalsrust 27.07.1911
(Aab)		 21.10.1921
(Aab)		  
2   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Odendalsrust

Skeleton

 1926
(Visser)		    
3   2C "Blank" Odendalsrust 24.01.1934
(Putzel)		 26.01.1934
(Aab)		  
4   2C "Blank" Odendalsrust 02.07.1941
(Visser)		 1947
(Putzel)		  
5   1C "Blank"   Odendalsrust
Skeleton		 1950
(Putzel)		    
6   2C "Blank" Odendalsrus
(T removed)		 13.07.1950
(Aab)		 13.10.1950
(Putzel)		  
7   1C "Blank"   Odendalsrus
Skeleton		 1954
(Visser)		    
8   2C "Blank"   Odendalsrus

Wide A's		 13.10.1950
(Putzel)		    
9   2C "Blank" Odendalsrus

Narrow A's		 25.05.1954
(Aab)		 18.02.1955
(Putzel)		  
10   2C "Blank" Odendalsrus

Last seen
15.08.1978
(Putzel)		 27.05.1955
(Aab)		 Republic  
11   2C "1"
Visser		 Odendalsrust

Index 1		 ??.10.1949
(Visser)		    

ODENDAALSTROOM
Union to 24.11.1930
Area: Burgersdorp
1   1C "Blank"   08.04.1911
(Frescura)		 31.01.1914
(Frescura)		  
2   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Visser 04.01.1913
(Visser)		    

ODIDINI
16.02.1931 to Republic
Renamed from Umbumbulu
Area: Durban
1   2C "Bar"
Visser		   12.07.1943
(Visser)		    

ODONATA
06.08.1945 to 03.11.1954
Area: Pretoria
1   2C "Bars + cross"
          C. vd Spuy		   1950
(Putzel)		 1953
(C. vd Spuy)		  

OEST
01.01.1917 to 01.01.1919
Area: Williston
NOT  RECORDED

OFCOLACO
25.06.1923 to Republic
Area: Tzaneen
1   2C "Bars + cross"
Visser		   1923
(Putzel)		 22.09.1930
(Visser)		  

OGIES
1957 to Republic
Renamed from Oogies
Still using Oogies in 1957
Area: Witbank
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmarks known

OHRIGSTAD
Union to Republic
Area: Lydenburg
1   2C "TRANSVAAL"     04.01.1942
(Aab)
(Putzel)		  
       
2   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1954
(Visser)		    
3   PARCEL  
Visser		  
(Visser)		    

OKIEP
1953 to Republic
Renamed from O'Okiep
Area: Namaqualand
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmarks known

OLD BUNTING
Union to 18.07.1949
Area: Transkei
1   1C "Blank" Year above date

First seen
22.11.1904
(Frescura)		 Union 12.07.1912
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross"   SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date		 06.12.1940
(Putzel)		    

OLD MORLEY
Union to Republic
Area: Transkei
1   1C "Dot" First seen:
18.12.1897
(Filat AG)		 Union 13.03.1915
(Frescura)		  

OLD TOWN
Union to 01.12.1910
Area: Klerksdorp
NOT  RECORDED

OLIEVENHOUT(S)POORT
26.02.1923 to 01.08.1944
17.11.1947 to Republic
Area: West Rand
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		 27 mm 04.02.1928
(Visser)
 		  
2   2C "Blank"
Visser		 26 mm 22.06.1955
(Visser)
 		  

OLIEVENBOSKRAAL
1953 to Republic
Renamed from Olyvenboschkraal
Area: West Coast
NOT  RECORDED

OLIFANTPARK
1955
Addo National Park
Area: Addo
1   2C "ELEPHANT PARK"   21.06.1955
(Aab)
 		  

OLIFANTSBRUG
01.07.1914 to 31.07.1922
1940 to Republic
Renamed from Olifantshoek (Transvaal)
Area: Rustenburg
1   2C "Blank"   30 mm ??.08.1950
(Putzel)
 		  

OLIFANTSFONTEIN (RAIL)
Union to 01.12.1913
01.09.1915 to Republic
Area: Between Johannesburg and Pretoria
1   2C "Asterisk" First seen
16.11.1903
(Aab)		 Union 28.08.1936
(Putzel)		  
2   1C "Blank?"
Visser		 Skeleton 30.01.1943
(Visser)		    
3   2C "Blank"   ??.10.1943
(Aab)		 02.06.1952
(Aab)		  
4   2C "Blank"   09.12.1954
(Aab)		    

OLIFANTSHOEK - CAPE -
1935 to Republic
Renamed from Oliphantshoek
Area: Postmasburg
1   2C "Blank" 29 mm 19.12.1936
(Aab)		 20.12.1940
(Putzel)		  
 2   2C "Blank" 26 mm 17.05.1950
(Aab)		 20.02.1952
(Aab)		  
3   1C "Blank" Skeleton 12.10.1945
(Visser)		    

OLIFANTSHOEK - Transvaal -
Union to 01.07.1914
Renamed to Olifantsbrug
Area: Rustenburg
NOT  RECORDED
Transvaal postmark known

OLIFANTSKRAAL
1932 to June 1948
Renamed from Oliphantskraal
Area: West Coast
1   2C "Blank"   27 mm
(Putzel)		    

OLIFANTSLEEGTE
01.11.1912 to 29.01.1934
Renamed from Oliphantsleegte
Area: Alexandria
NOT  RECORDED

OLIFANTSPOORT
01.12.1910 to 01.05.1918
Area: Nylstroom
NOT  RECORDED

OLIFANTS RIVER (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Middelburg, Transvaal
1   2C "TRANSVAAL"
Visser		   1911
(Visser)		 05.10.1940
(Visser)		  

OLIFANTSVLEI
27.04.1925 to Republic
Area: Zeerust
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		   123.11.1949(Visser)    

OLIJFBERG
01.01.1911 to 1922
Area: Ladybrand
1   2C "OFS?"
Visser		 26 mm 25.08.1911
(Visser)		 27.05.1913
(Visser)