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Post Offices IMVANI to INNES ROAD

IMVANI
Union to Republic
Area: Queenstown
1   2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
22.02.1906
(Frescura)		 Union 12.08.1925
(Aab)		  
2   2C "S.AFRICA"    
(Putzel)		    
3   2C "Bars + cross"   12.12.1929
(Putzel)		 15.12.1943
(Aab)		  

INADI
Union to 1952
Renamed to Nadi
Area: Greytown
1   2C "NATAL" Dots on sides
First seen
09.04.1901
(Aab)		 Union 24.12.1918
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross" 31 mm 1936
(Visser)		 01.02.1937
(Visser)		  
3   2C "Bars + cross"   21.06.1947
(Visser)		 26.05.1950
(Aab)		  

INANDA
Union to Republic
Area: Durban
1   2C "Bars + cross"   25 mm 31.01.1934
(Putzel)		    
2   2C "Cross"   27 mm

Last seen
11.06.1979
(Putzel)		 15.09.1958
(Putzel)		 Republic  

INCALU
01.09.1917 to 1953
Renamed from Finchley
Renamed to Ncalu
Area: Ixopo
1   2C "Bars + cross"   22.05.1924
(Aab)		 02.06.1953
(Visser)		  

INCHANGA (RAIL) (STATION)
Union to Republic
Area: Durban
1   2C "NATAL" Dots on sides
First seen
27.??.1896
(Aab)		 Union 11.06.1919
(Aab)		  
2   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 01.10.1925
(Visser)		    
3   2C "Blank"    
(Putzel)		    
4   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 08.07.1948
(Putzel)		    

INCISININDE
Union to 1938
Area: Transkei
Not recorded

INDALENI
27.04.1936 to 04.03.1953
Renamed to Ndaleni
Area: Richmond, Natal
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		   04.03.1953
(Visser)		    

INDHLEBE
06.09.1949 to 02.10.1950
Renamed to Ndlebe
Area: Vryheid
Not recorded

INDO-NATIVE OFFICE
1914 to 08.08.1932
Renamed to Pretoria Non-European Office
Area: Pretoria
1 "PRETORIA" 2C "INDO NATIVE
OFFICE"		   30 mm

SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date		 04.11.1914
(rhodesia.co.za)		 19.11.1924
(Putzel)		  

rhodesia.co.za		        
2 "PRETORIA" 2C "INDO NATIVE
OFFICE"		 26 mm 19.01.1924
(Aab)		 1932
(Putzel)		  

INDIAN OFFICE SOUTH COAST JUNCTION
26.02.1923 to 13.04.1936
Renamed to Rossburgh Indian Office
Area: Durban
1   2C "Blank"   Spelt SC Junction
(Putzel)		    

INDUDUTU
Union to 1953
Renamed to Dudutu
Area: Umzinto
1   2C "Bars + cross"   11.06.1923
(Aab)		 14.07.1923
(Putzel)		  

INDUSTRIA
05.11.1939 to Republic
Area: Johannesburg
1   2C "Blank"   Last seen
11.08.1978
(Putzel)		 30.06.1957
(Putzel)		 Republic  
       

INDWE
Union to Republic
Area: Dordrecht
1   1C "Dot" First seen:
06.03.1886
(Aab)		 Union 05.06.1933
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
01.02.1904
(Aab)		 Union 11.09.1911
(Frescura)		  
3   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 26.01.1914
(Visser)		    
4   2C "Bars + cross" SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date		 12.10.1915
(Aab)		 03.04.1926
(Putzel)		  
5   2C "Bars + cross" New discovery
SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date		 12.09.1932
(Aab)		 08.09.1936
(Aab)		  
6   2C "Bars + cross"
  1934
(Visser)		 24.11.1936
(Visser)		  
7   2C "Bars + cross"   21.12.1937
(Putzel)		 11.05.1951
(Aab)		  
8   2C "Bars + cross"  
(Putzel)		 195?
(Aab)		  
9   1C "Blank" Skeleton 08.03.1952
(Aab)		 28.03.1952
(Putzel)		  
10 "CAPE KAAP" 1C "Blank" Skeleton 23.05.1960
(Aab)		    

INDWEPOORT
23.06.1925 to 06.10.1930
Area: Lady Frere
Not recorded

INGAGANE (STATION) RAIL)
Union to 1953
Renamed to Ngagane Station
Area: Newcastle
1   2C "Bars + cross"     07.04.1932
(Putzel)		    
2   2C "Blank"   30.06.1934
(SA Philatelist)		 03.09.1940
(Putzel)		  

INGELI (INGELE)
Union to 15.01.1945
Area: Harding
Not recorded
Natal postmark known

INGOGO
Union to Republic
Area: Newcastle
1   2C "Bars + cross"     12.09.1931
(Putzel)		 09.05.1939
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "Blank" RAIL removed ??.08.1953
(Aab)		 01.03.1958
(Aab)		  

INGOGO RAIL (STATION)
Union to 14.01.1952
Area: Newcastle
1   2C "NATAL" Dots on sides
First seen
04.06.1897

 		 Union 25.02.1920
(Aab)		  
2   1C "Blank" Skeleton 14.01.1921
(Aab)		 1922
(Aab)		  
3 "STATION" 2C "Blank"     10.12.1929
(Putzel)		 23.05.1933
(Putzel)		  
4 "/STA" 2C "Blank"
Visser		   17.11.1949
(Visser)		    

INGONYAMA
01.09.1910 to 01.06.1918
Area: Johannesburg
1   2C "JOHANNESBURG"
Visser		   12.11.1910
(Visser)		    

INGWAVUMA
Union to Republic
Area: Zululand
1   2C "NATAL" First seen
20.03.1902
(Putzel)		 Union 1931
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "Bar"     22.05.1943
(Putzel)		 1958
(Putzel)		  
       
3 "DURBAN" 2C "Blank"     08.07.1937
(Putzel)		    
4   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton ??.03.1958
(Visser)		    

INGWENYA
01.10.1910 to 01.02.1911
Area: Warmbaths
Not recorded

INHLAVINI
17.11.1930 to 1953
Renamed from South Hills
Renamed to Nhlavini
Area: Highflats
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		   20.03.1943
(Visser)		    

INHLAZATJE (INHLASATJE)
Union to 1953
Renamed Nhlazatje
Area: Vryheid
1   2C "Blank"   07.01.1935
(Putzel)		 1949
(Aab)		  

INKBASPAN
20.08.1923 to 29.08.1932
Area: Upington
1   2C "?"
Visser		  
(Visser)		    

INKTPAN
30.05.1921 to 06.10.1933
Renamed to Loffia
Area: Bultfontein
1   2C "?"
Visser		  
(Visser)		    

INNESDALE
13.06.1949 to Republic
Area: Pretoria
Not recorded
Republic postmarks known

INNESDALE DEPOT
ca. 1947 to Republic
Area: Pretoria
Not recorded
Republic postmarks known

INNES ROAD DURBAN
01.06.1915 to Republic
1 "DURBAN" 2C "Blank"
Visser		   08.07.1947
(Visser)		    
2 "/WEG" 2C "DURBAN"   24.11.1947
(Aab)		 01.10.1958
(Putzel)