The Post Office Tree (2)

This is the post box at the Old Post Office Tree in the Dias Museum Complex.  It can be used to post postcards and letters.

According to the museum website a special frank is used on all outgoing mail from this post box to commemorate the fact that South Africa’s first post office was this tree.  I have never send a letter from here and cannot confirm that the special frank is still used.

The reason for the boot-shaped letterbox is that it is presumed that the first letters were left at this old tree from the 1500’s in a sailor’s boot!

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