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    This document provides information on the postal history of various locations in the Union of South Africa from 1910 to 1962. It lists locations alphabetically from Aloepoort to Amersfoort and provides details for each such as dates of operation, renaming, area or location, and postmark images and dates. The high level information presented is on the postal operations and postmarks used at different locations during the period when South Africa was known as the Union of South Africa.

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    1/13/22, 6:23 PM Postal History of 

    the Union of

    Postal History of
    the Union of South Africa
     

    HOME UNION INDEX


     

    Post Offices ALOEPOORT to AMERSFOORT

    ALOEPOORT
    01.08.1910 to 01.08.1918
    Area: Zastron (OFS)

    Allocated
    1   BONC "36" Alloepoort      
    July 1910

    ALOES (RAIL) (STATION)


    Union to Republic
    Area: Near Port Elizabeth

    First seen:
    22.11.1898
    1   1C CGH

    Union 30.11.1927  
    Droped S by 1917

    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)
    First seen: 03.04.1920
    1   2C "NATAL"   20.04.1910
    Union
    (Putzel)
     

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

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

    AMABELE (STATION)
    Union to Republic
    Area: Eastern Cape

    First seen: 14.09.1914


    1   2C "Bars + cross"
    22.06.1905
    Union
    (Putzel)
     

           

    2   2C "Bars + cross" Larger letters 14.01.1918 14.06.1939  


    (Aab) (Aab)

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    Skeleton 30.05.1923
    3   1C "Blank"
    New discovery (Aab)
       

    11.05.1935 23.05.1946
    4   2C "Bars + cross" Thin lines
    (Aab) (Aab)
     

    19.05.1955
    5   1C "Blank"   Skeleton
    (Putzel)
       
    First seen:
    (6)   2C "Cross"   02.03.1962
         

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

    AMALIA
    04.03.1929 to Republic
    Area: Schweizer Reneke (Transvaal)
    Renamed from Abelskop

    ??.??.1932 07.01.1944
    1   2C "Bars + cross"   (Aab) (Aab)
     

    2   2C "Bars + cross" New discovery 18.03.1953    


    (Aab)

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    AMALIENSTEIN
    Union to 13.02.1961
    Area: Ladismith (Cape)

    First seen: 26.08.1914


    1   1C "CGH"
    24.12.1888
    Union
    (Putzel)
     

    22.05.1931 ??.??.1936
    2   1C "Blank" CGH removed?
    (Putzel) (Aab)
     

    10.07.1950
    3   2C "Blank"     (Putzel)
       

    AMALINDA (VIILAGE)
    Union to Republic
    Area: East London
    24.07.1912
    1   BONC "1219"   First seen: Unknown Union
    (Putzel)
     

    First seen:
    30.01.1915
    2   1C "Blank" 14.12.1905 Union
    (Putzel)
     
    (Aab)

    3 "VILLAGE" 2C "Blank"   21.07.1915 27.05.1933  


    (Putzel) (Putzel)

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    Relief
    02.01.1915
    4   1C "Blank"   Spelt Amalind
    (Putzel)
       
    Village

    11.02.1921
    5   2C "Blank"   (Aab)
       

    AMALINDA STATION
    Union to 01.06.1914
    Renamed to Brabant Station
    Area: East London

    First seen: 22.07.1912


    1   2C "Bars + cross"
    01.08.1907
    Union
    (Aab)
     

           

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

    AMANZIMTOTI (RAIL)
    Union to Republic
    Near Durban
    1   2C "NATAL" First seen: Union 09.04.1913  
    29.08.1894 (Aab)

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    15.10.1923 21.02.1925
    2 "RAIL" 2C "Bar"   (Aab) (Putzel)
     

    2   1C "DN NATAL"   Skeleton      

    20.03.1935
    3   1C "NATAL" Skeleton
    (Aab)
       

    17.02.1947
    4   1C "Blank" Skeleton
    (Aab)
       

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    4   2C "Blank" Month in letters 07.04.1937 28.07.1946  
    (Aab) (Aab)

           

    04.08.1952 18.11.1958
    5   2C "1"     (Putzel) (Putzel)
     

           

    Month in Roman 20.12.1954


    6   2C "Blank"
    numerals (Aab)
    Republic  

    Month in Roman 02.04.1960 03.06.1960


    7   2C "2"   numerals (Putzel) (Putzel)
     

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

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    Last seen:
    15.04.1909

    Blocks on sides

    02.10.1928
    2   2C "NATAL"
    First seen:
    Union
    (Aab)
     
    09.12.1909

    23.06.1935 31.07.1935
    3   2C "Blank" Month in letters
    (Aab) (Putzel)
     

    Skeleton

    22.10.1942
    4   1C "Blank" New discovery (Braam    

    Leeflang)
    Bram Leeflang

    Bram Leeflang
    5   2C "Blank" Month in Roman 09.11.1944 Republic  
    numerals (Putzel)

    Last seen:
    09.12.1961

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    18.09.195?
    6   2C "?" Thin lines on sides
    (Putzel)
    Republic  

    AMATOLE BASIN
    Union to Republic
    Area: Middeldrift

    Last seen
    10.01.1931
    1   2C "Blank" 16.08.1978
    (Putzel)
    Republic  
    (Putzel)

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

    First seen 10.02.1914


    1   2C "Asterisk/dot"
    15.05.1903
    Union
    (Visser)
     

    (Visser)
    2   2C "Blank" SOUTH 05.11.1914 08.03.1935  
    above date (Aab) (Aab)
    AFRICA
    below date

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    02.07.1919 19.08.1919
    3   2C "Blank" 10 to 2 o'clock
    (Putzel) (Putzel)
     

    28.04.1935 04.07.1935
    4   1C "Blank" Skeleton
    (Aab) (Aab)
     

    New discovery
    9 to 3 o'clock 17.10.1936 15.05.1937
    5       Different "A" to (Aab) (Aab)
     
    number 5

    9 to 3 o'clock
    30.11.1936 09.04.1947
    6   2C "Blank" Different "A" to
    (Putzel) (Aab)
     
    number 5

    24.06.1954
    7   2C-D "Blank"     (Visser)
     

    Visser
     

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