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'''Location:''' 41° 33' 0" South, 146° 24' 0" East
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'''Location:''' Mole Creek is located 24km west of [[Deloraine]]. Nearby communities which previously had post offices include [[Liena]], [[Caveside]] and [[Chudleigh]].
  
  
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* Earliest recorded date: '''7-Jul-1933''' · Latest recorded date: '''28-Oct-1962'''
 
* Earliest recorded date: '''7-Jul-1933''' · Latest recorded date: '''28-Oct-1962'''
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* Earliest recorded date: '''30-Sep-1977''' · Latest recorded date: '''11-Dec-1989'''
 
* Earliest recorded date: '''30-Sep-1977''' · Latest recorded date: '''11-Dec-1989'''

Latest revision as of 06:06, 30 July 2014

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Location: Mole Creek is located 24km west of Deloraine. Nearby communities which previously had post offices include Liena, Caveside and Chudleigh.


see Google Map for an enlargement


  • Opened: 28-MAY-1884 · Current Status: Open (Licensed PO)


A postmark enthusiast's photo of the Mole Creek post office taken during January 1972


Barred Numeral Postmark[edit]


BN232 was allocated to Mole Creek in 1884

  • Rated R

Datestamps[edit]

Type 1

  • Earliest recorded date: 2-Feb-1889 · Latest recorded date: 6-Jun-1933

Found in blue in 1909 (date range?). Manuscript cancellations relate to the period when the Liena datestamp was being corrected.

Type 4a

  • Earliest recorded date: 7-Jul-1933 · Latest recorded date: 28-Oct-1962


Type 5s

  • Earliest recorded date: 29-Oct-1962 · Latest recorded date: 30-Sep-1977


Type 7

  • Earliest recorded date: 30-Sep-1977 · Latest recorded date: 11-Dec-1989


Type 7(m)

  • Earliest recorded date: 25-Jan 1990 ·



To the Index of Tasmanian Post Offices and Postal Markings

To the Tasmanian Datestamp Types main page

Other Cancellations and Postal Items[edit]


Other Information[edit]

  • 1892 - The tender of Thomas Smith for the carriage of mails from Mole Creek via Chudleigh and the Needles to Deloraine has been accepted covering the period 1-June-1892 to 31-Dec-1894 for 104 pounds.

Links & References[edit]

To the Index of Tasmanian Post Offices and Postal Markings

To the Tasmanian Datestamp Types main page


Please contact the author of this page to report any errors and/or omissions or to provide better or 'missing' images, etc.