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Post Offices PIQUETBERG to POKWANI

PIQUETBERG
Union to 20.02.1940
Area: West Coast
1   2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
02.02.1909
(Frescura)		 Union 20.10.1915
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Blank" 31 mm 28.11.1921
(Aab)		 11.05.1925
(Aab)		  
3   2C "Blank" 30 mm
could be number 2!!		      
4   2C "Blank" 29 mm
Larger name
(Aab)		 06.05.1933
(Putzel)		  
5   1C "Blank" Skeleton 30.03.1936
(Bram
Leeflang)		 06.04.1936
(Putzel)		  
6   1C "Blank"
Skeleton

New discovery		 21.08.1939
(Aab)		    

PIRIE
Union to Republic
Area: Kingwilliamstown
1   1C "CGH" First seen:
22.11.1897
(Aab)		 Union 07.02.1933
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "Blank"
Visser		 26 mm

Last seen
13.06.1977
(Putzel)		 13.05.1941
Visser		 Republic  

PISANG HOEK
1910 to 1952
Renamed to Piesanghoek
Area: Louis Trichardt
1   2C "TRANSVAAL"   29 mm
(Putzel)		 22.08.1927
(Putzel)		  
       

PITSENG
Basutoland using South African stamps up to 1 December 1933
See Basutoland

PLAATJES RIVER
Union to 01.12.1914
Area: Beaufort West
NOT  RECORDED
CGH postmark known

PLAINS (RAIL)
01.07.1920 to Republic
Area: Port Shepstone
1   1C "Bars + cross"
Visser		 25 mm 1927
(Visser)		    
2 "/STA" 2C "Blank"   26 mm 13.06.1935
(Putzel)		    
3 "/STA" 2C "Blank"   28 mm 11.02.1959
(Putzel)		    

PLASTON
30.05.1921 to Republic
Area: Nelspruit
1   2C "Bars + cross"   28 mm 1927
(Visser)		    
2   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 04.01.1954
(Putzel)		    

PLATBAKKIES
16.04.1951 to Republic
Renamed from Rondegat
Area: Namaqualand
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmarks known

PLATHUIS
15.02.1926 to Republic
Area: Ladismith, Cape
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmarks known

PLATINUM
13.07.1925 to 13.05.1929
Renamed to Gemsbokfontein
Area: Nylstroom
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		   01.06.1927
(Visser)		    

PLATJAN
11.07.1949 to Republic
Area: Potgietersrus
1   2C "Bars + cross"   26 mm 1956
(Putzel)		    

PLATKOPPIESDRIFT
22.06.1925 to 07.02.1944
Area: Aliwal North
1   2C "Blank"   26 mm 17.09.1934
(Putzel)		    

PLATRAND (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Standerton
1   2C "Asterisk" First seen
05.09.1902
(Aab)		 Union 02.08.1912
(Aab)		  
2 "STA?" 1C "Blank"   Skeleton 17.08.1914
(Putzel)		    
3   2C "SOUTH AFRICA"
Visser		   17.06.1918
(Visser)		    
4   2C "Bar"   02.02.1920
(Aab)		 06.03.1933
(Aab)		  
5   2C "Blank"   1943
(Aab)		 29.12.1947
(Putzel)		  

PLATREEF
18.10.1926 to Republic
Area: Potgietersrus
1   2C "Blank"   ??.11.1941
(Aab)
(Putzel)		  

PLATSJAMBOK
01.01.1913 to 23.01.1924
Area: Prieska
1   2C "Blank"     28.11.1927
(Putzel)		    

PLATTEKLOOF
01.06.1916 to 01.07.1919
Area: Riversdale
NOT  RECORDED

PLATWAL
13.06.1955 to Republic
Area: Rustenberg
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmarks known

PLESIER
26.09.1949 to 31.10.1955
Area: Maribogo
1   2C "Cross"   28 mm 1954
(Visser)		    

PLESSISLAER
09.05.1927 to Republic
Area: Pietermaritzburg
1   2C "Blank"     07.10.1958
(Putzel)		    

PLETTENBERGS BAY
Union to Republic
Area: Garden Route
1   1C "Dot" First seen:
25.08.1885
(Frescura)		 Union 28.02.1925
(Frescura)		  
2   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 192?
(Putzel)		    
3   2C "Blank" 26 mm 16.03.193?
(Aab)		 27.06.1935
(Aab)		  
4   2C "Blank"
26 mm
Bi-lingual		 03.11.1936
(Putzel)		 12.04.1952
(Aab)		  

PLOOYSBURG
14.01.1924 to Republic
Area: Kimberley
1   2C "Blank"   26 mm 30.08.1932
(Putzel)		    
2   2C "Blank"
Visser		 26 mm

Last seen:
11.08.1978
(Putzel)

 30.08.1932
(Visser)		 Republic  

PLUMSTEAD
Union to Republic
Area: Cape Town
1   2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
10.05.1904
(Aab)		 Union 1927
(Visser)		  
2   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 01.12.1927
(Visser)		    
3   2C "Blank" 26 mm 20.11.1928
(Putzel)		 18.01.1933
(Aab)		  
4   1C "Blank" Skeleton 11.06.1942
(Aab)		 13.10.1943
(Putzel)		  
5   2C "Blank"   29 mm 19.12.1955
(Putzel)		    

PNIEL
16.04.1923 to Republic
Area: Stellenbosch
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmarks known

POCKLINGTON
01.10.1913 to 06.06.1960
Area: Villiesrs
1   1C "Blank" 26 mm 13.06.1925
(Putzel)
(Aab)		  

POFADDER
01.02.1911 to Republic
Area: Namaqualand
1   2C "Bars + cross"   03.11.1932
(Putzel)
(Aab)		  
2   1C "Blank" Skeleton

New discovery		 ??.03.1944
(Aab)		    

POINT
Union to Republic
Area: Durban
1   2C "NATAL" Blocks on sides
26 mm

First seen:
25.01.1907
(Aab)		 Union 03.01.1913
(Hamilton)		  
2   2C "SOUTH AFRICA"   17.12.1912
(Putzel)		    
3 "NATAL" 2C "Blank" 25 mm 29.07.1922
(Putzel)		 11.07.1925
(Aab)		  
4   2C "NATAL" 25 mm
wide NATAL
 		 19.01.1922
(Putzel)		 21.01.1932
(Aab)		  
5 "NATAL" 2C "Blank" 28 mm 22.11.1939(Aab) 24.07.1949
(Visser)		  
       
6   2C "NATAL"
Visser		 29 mm 31.03.1953
(Visser)		    

POKWANI (RAIL) - Cape -
Union to Republic
Area: Kimberley
1 "C.C." 2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
01.07.1905
(Frescura)		 Union 08.04.1916
(Putzel)		  
2 "RAIL" 2C "CAPE"   15.05.1917
(Putzel)		 12.04.1919
(Aab)		  
3   1C "CAPE"
Visser		 Skeleton 11.05.1927
(Visser)		    
4 "RAIL" 2C "Blank"     22.10.1938
(Putzel)		    
5   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 1940
(Visser)		    
6   2C "Cross"   1947
(Aab)		 21.11.1959
(Putzel)		  

POKWANI - Transvaal -
Union to 01.10.1916
Renamed to Nebo
Area: Middelberg, Transvaal
1   3C "Asterisk"
(Putzel)		 First seen
17.07.1907
(Putzel)		 Union 07.07.1910
(Aab)