Tuesday/ registered mail labels ✉️

Below is my four-page collection of the South African Post Office labels.
These labels were widely used by post offices use to track registered mail from the 1940s until about 2000.

After that, computer-generated labels with numbers and barcodes became the standard— with no city name or post office name.

Registered air mail from Bulawayo, Rhodesia to Cape Town, South Africa, postmarked
Dec 8, 1965. Rhodesia was the de facto successor state to the British colony of Southern Rhodesia, and in 1980 became modern-day Zimbabwe.
The yellowed labels are probably from the 1950s or 60s. The font of the boxed letter R changed a few times over the years.
A closer look. Look for the label called THREE RIVERS.
Three Rivers is the suburb in Vereeniging, Gauteng province, South Africa, where I grew up and went to elementary school and high school.
I am sure that registration labels exist that show VEREENIGING (for Vereeniging’s main post office). With a little luck, I should be able to find one to put into this collection.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *