GC3D908 Oldest Post Box revisted (Multi-cache) in Eastern Cape, South Africa created by iPajero

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A cache by iPajero Message this owner

Hidden : 2/25/2012

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

A two-stage multi cache in Grahamstown, but please use stealth. Cache is not at the listed coordinates.

When was the last time you posted a letter or sent a postcard? In today’s world it is all electronic and instant, but many of us can recall the excitement of receiving mail from the post office, be it a birthday card or a letter from a friend! When you are in Grahamstown why don’t you send someone a letter or postcard from the oldest official letter box in South Africa! This box is painted in the traditional post office red and manufacture dates back to between 1857 and 1859. It no longer displays the letters “V.R” denoting the monarch, Queen Victoria, as this was stolen many years ago. There is no exact date of when this was brought to South Africa and erected in Grahamstown but it is assumed to be between 1859 and 1860. This might not be the oldest letter box in the world, but it may just rank in the world’s top twenty. When posting mail from this box in the past it used to get a special frank, but this has stopped. We posted ourselves a letter and postcard from this box and it now gets franked in Port Elizabeth. How times have changed!