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Post Offices ALOEPOORT to AMERSFOORT

ALOEPOORT
01.08.1910 to 01.08.1918
Area: Zastron (OFS)
1   BONC "36"
Allocated
Alloepoort
July 1910		      

ALOES (RAIL) (STATION)
Union to Republic
Area: Near Port Elizabeth
1   1C CGH
First seen:
22.11.1898

Droped S by 1917		 Union 30.11.1927  
2 "RAIL" 2C "Bar"   Rail added 29.09.1950 22.06.1954  

ALPHA
Union to 19.02.1940
1942 to 11.11.1946
Area: Near Vryheid (Natal)
1   2C "NATAL"   First seen:
20.04.1910		 Union 03.04.1920
(Putzel)		  
       

ALTHORPE
22.11.1926 to 20.04.1931
Area: Near Nelspruit (Eastern Transvaal)
1   2C "Blank"     22.02.1930
(Putzel)		    

ALWYN
14.01.1929 to 27.01.1941
Renamed to Hennopsrivier
Area: Near Pretoria
1   2C "Bars + cross"     02.04.1930
(Putzel)		 25.02.1935
(Aab)		  

AMABELE (STATION)
Union to Republic
Area: Eastern Cape
1   2C "Bars + cross" First seen: 22.06.1905 Union 14.09.1914
(Putzel)		  
       
2   2C "Bars + cross" Larger letters 14.01.1918
(Aab)		 14.06.1939
(Aab)		  
3   1C "Blank" Skeleton
New discovery		 30.05.1923
(Aab)		    
4   2C "Bars + cross" Thin lines 11.05.1935
(Aab)		 23.05.1946
(Aab)		  
5   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 19.05.1955
(Putzel)		    
(6)   2C "Cross"   First seen: 02.03.1962      

AMAHLONGWA
Union to 18.11.1929
Area: Durban
1   2C "Bars + cross"       02.11.1926
(Putzel)		  

AMALIA
04.03.1929 to Republic
Area: Schweizer Reneke (Transvaal)
Renamed from Abelskop
1   2C "Bars + cross"   ??.??.1932
(Aab)		 19.01.1947
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross" New discovery 18.03.1953
(Aab)		    

AMALIENSTEIN
Union to 13.02.1961
Area: Ladismith (Cape)
1   1C "CGH" First seen: 24.12.1888 Union 26.08.1914
(Putzel)		  
2   1C "Blank" CGH removed? 22.05.1931
(Putzel)		 ??.??.1936
(Aab)		  
3   2C "Blank"     10.07.1950
(Putzel)		    

AMALINDA (VIILAGE)
Union to Republic
Area: East London
1   BONC "1219"   First seen: Unknown Union 24.07.1912
(Putzel)		  
2   1C "Blank" First seen:
14.12.1905
(Aab)		 Union 30.01.1915
(Putzel)		  
3 "VILLAGE" 2C "Blank"   21.07.1915
(Putzel)		 27.05.1933
(Putzel)		  
4   1C "Blank"   Relief
Spelt Amalind Village		 02.01.1915
(Putzel)		    
5   2C "Blank"   11.02.1921
(Aab)		    

AMALINDA STATION
Union to 01.06.1914
Renamed to Brabant Station
Area: East London
1   2C "Bars + cross" First seen: 01.08.1907 Union 22.07.1912
(Aab)		  
       

AMANZI
18.10.1948 to Republic
 Near Uitenhage (Cape)
1   2C "Lines + cross"     15.07.1956
(Putzel)		    

AMANZIMTOTI (RAIL)
Union to Republic
 Near Durban
1   2C "NATAL" First seen: 29.08.1894 Union 09.04.1913
(Aab)		  
       
2 "RAIL" 2C "Bar"   15.10.1923
(Aab)		 21.02.1925
(Putzel)		  
3   1C "DN NATAL"   Skeleton      
4   1C "NATAL" Skeleton 20.03.1935
(Aab)		    
5   1C "Blank" Skeleton 17.02.1947
(Aab)		    
6   2C "Blank" Month in letters 07.04.1937
(Aab)		 28.07.1946
(Aab)		  
       
7   2C "1"     04.08.1952
(Putzel)		 18.11.1958
(Putzel)		  
       
8   2C "Blank" Month in Roman numerals 20.12.1954
(Aab)		 Republic  
9   2C "1" Index 1 30.10.1958
(Aab)		    
10   2C "2"   Index 2 02.04.1960
(Putzel)		 03.06.1960
(Putzel)		  

AMATIKULU (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Zululand
(1)   2C "NATAL" Bars on sides
First seen: 31.03.1908
Last seen: 15.04.1909		      
2   2C "NATAL" Blocks on sides

First seen:
09.12.1909		 Union 02.10.1928
(Aab)		  
3   2C "Blank" Month in letters 23.06.1935
(Aab)		 31.07.1935
(Putzel)		  
4   1C "Blank"
Bram Leeflang		 Skeleton

New discovery

Bram Leeflang		 22.10.1942
(Braam
Leeflang)		    
5   2C "Blank" Month in Roman numerals

Last seen:
09.12.1961		 09.11.1944
(Putzel)		 Republic  
6   2C "?" Thin lines on sides 18.09.195?
(Putzel)		 Republic  

AMATOLE BASIN
Union to Republic
Area: Middeldrift
1   2C "Blank" Last seen
16.08.1978
(Putzel)		 10.01.1931
(Putzel)		 Republic  

AMBA ALAGI
07.06.1954 to 07.06.1954
Area: Groblersdal (Transvaal)
Renamed to Oorneem
NOT RECORDED

AMERSFOORT
Union to Republic
1   2C "Asterisk/dot"
(Visser)		 First seen
15.05.1903		 Union 10.02.1914
(Visser)		  
2   2C "Blank"  
 SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date		 05.11.1914
(Aab)		 08.03.1935
(Aab)		  
3   2C "Blank" 10 to 2 o'clock 02.07.1919
(Putzel)		 19.08.1919
(Putzel)		  
4   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 28.04.1935
(Aab)		 04.07.1935
(Aab)		  
5       New discovery
9 to 3 o'clock
Different "A" to number 5		 17.10.1936
(Aab)		 15.05.1937
(Aab)		  
6   2C "Blank"   9 to 3 o'clock
Different "A" to number 5		 30.11.1936
(Putzel)		 09.04.1947
(Aab)		  
7   2C-D "Blank"
Visser		     24.06.1954
(Visser)