Miena

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Location: 41° 59' 0" South, 146° 44' 0" East

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  • Great Lake renamed Miena: 01-JAN-1901 · Closed: 22-APR-1942
  • Free Bag 1942/1959
  • Reopened: 14-FEB-1957 as a Telephone Office · Closed: 31-MAR-1969


Datestamps[edit]

Type 2d

  • Earliest recorded date: 02-FEB-1921 · Latest recorded date: 18-AUG-1940
  • Rated R
  • Datestamp was ordered on 31-DEC-1920 · reported in blue ink in 1926

Report an earlier or later use of the Type 2d datestamp here


Type 5s

  • Earliest recorded date: 06-FEB-1969 · Latest recorded date: 02-MAR-1969
  • Rated RRRRR
  • Although a T.O. it is known that the datestamp was used to cancel mail

Report an earlier or later use of the Type 5s datestamp here


To the Index of Tasmanian Post Offices and Postal Markings

To the Tasmanian Datestamp Types main page

Other Information[edit]

  • report in The Mercury regarding response by the Bothwell Council to the closure of the Mienapost office
    • further comment in The Mercury from January 1944 re the lack of postal and telephone facilities at Miena

Links & References[edit]

To the Index of Tasmanian Post Offices and Postal Markings

To the Tasmanian Datestamp Types main page


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