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Post Offices EMPANGENI to ERMELO

EMPANGENI
Union to Republic
Area: Zululand
1   2C "NATAL" Dots on sides

First seen
02.10.1904
(Aab)
 		 Union 25.05.1914
(Putzel)		  
2   1C "Blank" Not a skeleton 14.05.1926
(Putzel)		 1933
(Visser)		  
3   2C "Blank" 30 mm 19.07.1933
(Putzel)		    
4   2C "Blank" 30 mm
Larger lettering
 than number 3		 18.05.1942
(Putzel)		 10.09.194?
(Aab)		  
5   2C "Blank"
Visser		 32 mm
Larger lettering		 15.05.1942
(Visser)		 09.04.1947
(Putzel)		  
6 "ZULULAND" 1C "Blank" Skeleton 1946
(Visser)		 1946
(Visser)		  
7   2C "Blank"   26 mm
8 to 4 o'clock		 29.05.1953
(Putzel)		    
8   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1955
(Visser)		    
9   2C "Bar"   Relief 22.10.1959
(Putzel)		    

EMPANGENI STATION (RAIL)
01.06.1912 to 01.11.1913
27.12.1922 to Republic
Area: Zululand
1 "RAIL" 2C "S.AFRICA"   1914
(Visser)		 05.12.1921
(Aab)		  
2 "RAIL" 1C "?"
Visser		   10.05.1916
(Visser)		    
3 "STATION" 2C "Blank"   ??.11.1923
(Putzel)		 04.07.1935
(Aab)		  
4 "STATION" 2C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 22.06.1927
(Visser)		    
5 "STATION" 2C "Asterisk"   12.09.1929
(Aab)		 22.11.1941
(Aab)		  
6 "STN" 1C "Blank"
Putzel		 Skeleton 22.06.1927
(Putzel)		    
7 "STA" 2C "Blank"   07.11.1950
(Aab)		 17.01.1956
(Putzel)		  
8 "(STA) . P/O" 2C "Blank"   19.08.1957
(Aab)		 11.02.1958
(Aab)		  

EMPIRE EXHIBITION
31.08.1936 to 08.02.1937
Area: Johannesburg
           
(Putzel)		    

EMS
01.04.1912 to 01.10.1915
Renamed from Emms
01.03.1916 to 03.02.1947
Area: Bethulie
1   2C "?"    
(Putzel)		    

ENDICOTT (STATION) (RAIL)
Union to 23.01.1950
10.08.1953 to Republic
Transfered from Saamtrek (1953)
Area: East Rand
1   2C "TRANSVAAL" First seen:
12.05.1909
(S.Payne)		 Union 02.07.1923
(Visser)		  
2   2C "Bar"   03.02.1938
(Aab)		 17.08.1945
(Putzel)		  

ENDULINDI
01.04.1914 to 1953
Renamed to Ndulinde
Area: Zululand
1   2C "Bars + cross"   SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date		 09.03.1919
(Putzel)		 1920
(Visser)		  

ENGCOBO
Union to Republic
Area: Transkei
1   2C "Bars + cross" First seen
03.05.1903
(Frescura)		 Union 06.01.1917
(frescura)		  
2   2C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 29.10.1917
(Visser)		    
3   2C "Bars + cross" Different G and C
longer bars		 24.07.1920
(Putzel)		 07.09.1936
(Aab)		  
4   2C "Bars + cross" Different G and C 26.06.1933
(Putzel)		 15.08.1945
(Aab)		  
       
5   2C "Bars + cross" Heavier bars 1937?
(Putzel)		 11.09.1939
(Aab)		  
6   1C "Blank"   01.05.1946
(Visser)		 06.06.1946
(Aab)		  
7   2C "Bars + cross"     1937?
(Putzel)		    
8   2C "Bars + cross"   20.12.1946
(Putzel)		 20.01.1956
(Aab)		  
9   2C "Bar"
Visser		 Relief 1959
(Visser)		    

ENGELBRECHTSDRIF(T)
01.07.1911 to 11.03.1935
Renamed from Rhenosterkop
Renamed to Verena
Area: East of Pretoria
1   2C "Blank"
                                                  Visser		  
(Aab)		 16.06.1932
(Visser)		  

ENKELDORING (ENKELDOORN)
29.07.1929 to Republic
Area: East of Pretoria
1   2C "TRANSVAAL" Last seen
18.07.1979
(Putzel)
(Aab) 		 Republic  

ENNERSDALE (STATION) (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Estcourt
1   2C "NATAL" Last seen
09.07.1900		 Union 25.10.1912  
2 "RAIL" 1C "Bar"   07.03.1922
(Visser)		 1927
(Visser)		  
3 "RAIL" 2C "Blank"   1933
(Visser)		 1940
(Visser)		  
4 "/STA" 2C "Blank"   ??.04.1952
(Aab)		 20.03.1954
(Putzel)		  

ENON
Union to Republic
1   1C "Dot" First seen:
 06.10.1890
(Frescura)		 Union 1937
(Visser)		  

ENQABENI
Union to 21.02.1944
Renamed to Nqabeni
Area: Harding, Natal
1   2C "NATAL" Dots on sides

First seen:
03.03.1896
(Aab)		 Union 31.12.1916
(Aab)		  
       
2   2C "Blank"
Visser		   194?
(Visser)		    

ENSELENI
12.01.1925 to 11.05.1925
Area: Empangeni
Not recorded

ENSELSBERG
1955 to Republic
Renamed from Enzelberg
Area: Zeerust
Not recorded
Republic postmark known

ENSELSPRUIT
21.10.1949 to Republic
Area: Potchefstroom
Not recorded
Republic postmark known

ENSTRA
10.04.1939 to Republic
Area: Springs
1   2C "Bars + cross"
  27.08.1945
(Aab)		 11.01.1955
(Aab)		  

ENTONDWENI
20.07.1936 to 08.04.1940
Area: Mtubatuba
Not recorded

ENTRE NOUS
01.06.1925 to 09.07.1951
Area: Barberton
1   2C "Blank"     1928
(Putzel)		    

ENTUMENI
Union to 1953
Renamed to Ntumeni
Area: Zululand
1   2C "NATAL" Dots on sides

First seen:
15.02.1910
(Aab)		 Union 27.05.1914
(Aab)		  
       
2   2C "Blank"   12.01.1940
(Aab)		 28.02.1947
(Visser)		  

ENYANISWENI
20.07.1936 to 1953
Renamed to Nyanisweni
Area: Transkei
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		   25.06.1937
(Visser)		    

ENZELBERG
Union to 1955
Renamed to Enselberg
Area: Zeerust
1   2C "TRANSVAAL"   1947
(Putzel)		    

EPPING (GARDEN)
06.05.1940 to Republic
Area: Cape Town
1   2C "Blank" Garden removed
(Putzel)
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Cross"
Visser		 Last seen
11.08.1978
(Putzel)		 01.02.1954
(Visser)		 Republic  

EQWATSHA
Union to 06.05.1940
Area: Zululand
Not recorded
Natal postmark known

ERASMIA
24.05.1948 to Republic
Area: Pretoria
Renamed from Mooiplaas, Transvaal
1   2C "Bars + cross"   Last seen
16.08.1978
(Putzel)		 14.03.1958
(Putzel)		 Republic  

ERASMUS
01.06.1914 to 01.10.1932
Renamed  from Bronhorstspruit
Renamed back to Bronkhorsrspruit
Area: East of Pretoria
1   2C "Blank" SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date		 01.05.1915
(Aab)		    
2   2C "Blank"   08.11.1919
(Putzel)		 22.01.1925
(Putzel)		  
3   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton
 		 07.08.1924
(Visser)		    

ERDZAK
01.02.1911 to 01.12.1911
Area: Standerton
Not recorded

ERFDEEL
01.11.1911 to 01.11.1914
Renamed from Klipfontein, OFS
Area: Dewetsdorp
Not recorded

ERICKSWILL
January 1914 to 25.02.1952
Area: Boshof, OFS
1   2C "S.AFRICA"     1916
(Visser)		    

ERMA
29.10.1928 to Republic
Area: Klerksdorp
1   2C "Bars + cross"     27.01.1933
(Putzel)		 04.11.1941
(Putzel)		  

ERMELO
Union to Republic
Area: Eastern Transvaal
1   2C "TRANSVAAL" First seen:
25.04.1906
(Putzel)		 Union 1913
(Putzel)		  
2   2C-D "TRANSVAAL"   17.04.1912
(Aab)		 05.03.1914
(Aab)		  
3   2C "Blank"   07.09.1915
(Putzel)		 20.01.1922
(Aab)		  
4   2C-D "Bars + cross"
Visser		 30 mm

Wide E

 1915
(Visser)		 1916
(Visser)		  
5   2C-D "Bars + cross" 32 mm 13.02.1922
(Putzel)		 24.08.1925
(Aab)		  
6   2C-D "TRANSVAAL"
 		 27 mm 28.01.1924
(Aab)		    
7   2C-D "Bars + cross"
28 mm 12.11.1930
(Putzel)		 02.11.1932
(Aab)		  
8   2C-D "Bars + cross" 28 mm

thinner bars

 20.08.1932
(Aab)		 1936
(Aab)		  
9   2C "TRANSVAAL" 29 mm 14.10.1938
(Aab)		 29.05.1941
(Visser)		  
10   2C "Bars + cross"   27 mm
(Putzel)		    
1   2C "Bars + cross" 26 mm 14.06.1935
(Aab)		 10.07.1947
(Aab)		  
12   1C "1957" Skeleton 14.06.1957
(Putzel)		    
13   2C "Cross" Last seen
24.04.1963
(Putzel)		 11.05.1958
(Aab)		 Republic  

ERMELO LOCATION
31.08.1942 to Republic
Not recorded