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Post Offices UPINGTON to UYSEDOORNS

UPINGTON
Union to Republic
Area: Lower Orange River

1   SQC "CGH" First seen:
26.09.1899
(Aab)
Union 28.03.1913
(Frescura)
 
2   2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
29.09.1906
(Aab)
Union 10.03.1927
(Frescura)
 
3   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 191?
(Putzel)
   
4   2C "Blank" 31 mm 18.09.1915
(Aab)
17.03.1924
(Putzel)
 
5   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1926
(Visser)
   
6   2C "Bar" 31 mm 28.09.1928
(Aab)
21.12.1931
(Putzel)
 
7   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton 27.10.1930
(Visser)
   
8   2C "Blank" 30 mm ??.05.1934
(Putzel)
01.06.1935
(Aab)
 
9   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton 06.06.1935
(Visser)
   
10   2C "Blank" 29 mm
Smaller lettering
07.08.1942
(Putzel)
11.09.1944
(Aab)
 
11   2C "Blank" 26 mm
11 to 1 oçlock
28.11.1939
(Putzel)
29.08.1943
(Aab)
 
12   2C "Blank" 26 mm 26.10.1948
(Aab)
21.02.1950
(Putzel)
 
13   2C "Blank"   27 mm
10 to 2 oçlock

(Putzel)
   
14   2C "2"   Index 2 25.02.1953
(Putzel)
   
15   2C "5" Index 5
not recoreded by Putzel
16.03.1954
(Aab)
   
16   2C "7" Index 7 02.08.1956
(Putzel)
   
17   2C "S.AFRICA
S.AFRIKA"
  Amount paid after year 08.01.1952
(Putzel)
   

UPINGTON WEST
14.05.1923 to 21.08.1933
Area: Upington

1   2C "Blank"   26 mm 07.07.1923
(Putzel)
   

UPLANDS
Union to 11.06.1956
Area: Knysna

1   1C "CGH" First seen:
31
.08.1897

(Aab)
Union 30.06.1940
(Frescura(
 

UPPER BLINKWATER
Union to Republic
Area: Balfour

1   1C "Dot"   First seen:
08.10.1902
(Frescura)
Union 11.05.1921
(Frescura)
 
2   1C "Bar"   25 mm 1921
(Putzel)
   
3   2C "Blank"
Visser
27 mm 1937?
(Visser)
1959
(Visser)
 

UPPER ENSELENI
30.05.1921 to 1952
Renamed from Ntambanano
Renamed to Upper Nseleni
Area: Zululand

1   2C "?"
Visser
  19.09.1921
(Visser)
   

UPPER GLENWOOD
05.10.1923 to 07.03.1927
Area: Durban

NOT  RECORDED

UPPER KLOOF STREET
1912 to 01.10.1914
Area: Cape Town

NOT  RECORDED
CGH postmark known

UPPER KOUGA
01.04.1915 to 1952
Renamed to Bo-Kouga
Area: Humansdorp

1         Part cancel seen
by Putzel

(Putzel)
   

UPPER LANGVERWACHT
1915 to 1952
Renamed to Bo-Langverwag
Area: Montagu

1   2C "Blank"   1922
(Visser)
   

UPPER NONOTI
27.02.1922 to 14.07.1924
Area: Stanger

NOT  RECORDED

UPPER NSELENI
1952 to Republic
Renamed from Upper Enseleni
Area: Zululand

NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmark known

UPPER PAARL
Union to 01.11.1912
Renamed to Zuider Paarl
Area: Winelands

1   1C "Blank" First seen:
 
08.10.1902
(Frescura)
Union 24.07.1912
(Frescura)
 

UPPER TONGAAT
Union to Republic
Area: Tongaat

1   2C "NATAL" No markings on sides

First seen:
02.10.1893
(Aab)
Union 21.06.1910
(Aab)
 
2   2C "NATAL"   Blocks on sides 1936
(Putzel)
   

UPPER TSITSANA
15.01.1951 to Republic
Area: Transkei

NOT  RECORDED

UPPER TYUME
05.06.1922 to Republic
Area: Alice

1   2C "Blank"     1947
(Putzel)
   

UPPER UMHLATUZI
Union to 1919
1924 to 01.05.1944
Renamed to Owens Cutting
Area: Zulluland

1   2C "Blank"     1937
(Putzel)

(Aab)
 
       

UPPER UMVOTI
01.07.1919 to 12.10.1954
Renamed from Misgunst
Area: Greytown

1   2C "Bar"
Visser
  11.06.1949
(Visser)
   

UPPER WYNBERG
Union to Republic
Area: Cape Town

1   1C "Blank" First seen
23
.12.1903
(Frescura)
Union 04.09.1912
(Aab)
 
2   1C "Blank" Skeleton 11.03.1937
(Visser)
   
3   2C "Blank" 30 mm
8 to 4 o''clock
23.12.1944
(Putzel)

(Aab)
 
4   1C "1954" Seleton 14.10.1954
(Putzel)
14.10.1954
(Aab)
 
5   2C "Blank"   30 mm
9 to 3 o''clock
21.02.1955
(Putzel)
   

UPPER ZWART KEI
Union to 1919
Area: Queenstown

1   1C "Dot"
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"Z" reversed
First seen:
1891
(Frescura)
 
Union 16.03.1913
(Frescura)
 

UPSAL
Union to 28.01.1935
Area: Somerset East

1   1C? "Blank"
Visser
  09.06.1925
(Visser)
   

URIONSKRAAL
12.11.1945 to Republic
Area: West Coast

1   2C "Blank"   26 mm
(Putzel)
   

USUTU
06.03.1944 to Republic
Renamed from Youngusutu
Area: Potgietersrus

NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmark known

UTRECHT
Union to Republic

1   2C "S.AFRICA"    
(Putzel)
   
2   1C "Blank"
Visser
  29.03.1916
(Visser)
   
3   2C "Bars + cross" 32 mm 31.10.1917
(Putzel)
01.02.1922
(Aab)
 
4   2C-D "Bars + cross"   04.04.1923
(Aab)
   
5   2C "Blank?"
Visser
Skeleton ??.06.1933
(Visser)
   
6   2C "Bars + cross"   28 mm
Thick bars
??.03.1939
(Putzel)
   
7   2C "Bars + cross"   28 mm
Thin bars
04.12.1941
(Putzel)
   

UVONGO BEACH
04.08.1924 to Republic
Area: Natal South Coast

1   2C "Bars + cross"   26 mm
Short bars

(Putzel)
   
2   2C "Blank" 26 mm
Short bars
05.10.1943
(Putzel)
15.05.1949
(Chris vd Spuy)
 

UYSEDOORNS
24.09.1928 to 30.06.1930
Area: Belfast

NOT  RECORDED