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Help With New Zealand Postmarks, Please

 
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Posted 08/21/2020   12:04 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add EdziuMM to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
These 3 New Zealand stamps are postmarked "ARMAGH", "HEPBURN" and
"TASIPO". But I haven't found towns with those names in New Zealand.
Could it be that these are street-names where postal facilities are located? Or maybe neighborhoods in some cities?
Appreciate any help with this. Thank you in advance.
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Posted 08/21/2020   1:29 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add bookbndrbob to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I believe the stamp on the right is postmarked "FASTPOST".
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Posted 08/21/2020   2:20 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add vayolene to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Fastpost is a private post service in New Zealand
"Hepburn Road" is the name of a main street in Auckland.
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Posted 08/21/2020   2:22 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add EdziuMM to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you, bookbndrbob.
I goofed on that one!
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Posted 08/21/2020   2:25 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add flip138 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
In the 1974 List of Offices published by the New Zealand Post Office, Armagh is listed in Christchurch District. According to Wooders, it opened in 1968. There is no entry for Hepburn because it did not open until 1975. It closed in 1988 and was in Auckland District.

There is probably a town name after Fastpost in the third postmark, but I cannot read it.

Phil
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Posted 08/21/2020   2:29 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add EdziuMM to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you, Vayolene.
I haven't been able to find if there is a postal facility on Hepburn Road. There is a toen named Hepburn Creek in New Zealand, but the spacing in the Hepburtn postmark looks wrong for it to be from Hepburn Creek.
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Posted 08/21/2020   2:36 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add EdziuMM to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
While I was typing, the reply from Flip138 came in. So then, it seems Hepburn and Armagh are thoroughfare locations of postal facilities?
BTW, thank you, too, Flip138
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Posted 08/21/2020   7:27 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
fastPOST An express service offered by NZ Post from 31 March 1993 which ceased 31 December 2017. It offered next working day delivery target for sending across town or between major towns and cities and offered a range of letter sizes and postage options. The rate for a standard letter during most of the time the service operated was twice the standard post rate.


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I goofed on that one!


I have always said, postmarks have the ability to make fools of us all...........

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Edited by rod222 - 08/21/2020 7:29 pm
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Posted 08/22/2020   11:53 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add EdziuMM to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Yea, verily,verily!
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