Copping Tasmania Cancellation

Just picked this up and wanted to see if anyone has any population statistics for Copping, Tasmania. Wikipedia only states that there are 183 individuals in last census, and that post office was open from October 1, 1886 and closed in 1988.

This is Scott 6, ACSC 15.

COPPING 42s49 147e48

Nil Rarity factor, Tas. Phil. Society 2008
Lowest Rarity Factor = "R" = less than 51 copies.


Ooops! apologies, that rarity factor list is for CDS on Tasmanian Pictorials only.

PS: The Thread title threw me for a second.
Australian Slang
Copping
to seize or catch. to steal. to buy, steal, or otherwise obtain (illegal drugs)Compare score (def.

Time to dig out the heavy machinery,
Tasmania, The Postal Markings Pt 1 and 2
Avery, Ingles Edwards and Purves.

No Rarity noted
Copping Numeral 260 1st October 1886

Postmasters
1899-1906 W Bloomfield Jnr
1907-1910 W Bloomfield
1911-1912 M F Bloomfield

Caveat: As yet not aufait with reading catalogue code

Copping (A) P115 Type 1 Datestamp
Copping P77 Opened 1st October 1886

Sometimes called Coppington (confusion with Coppington Telegraph Office)

1884 Copping Mail (Arrival and despatch of Inland Mails)

Copping
Mail closes Hobart MWF 7am
Mail closes Launceston MWF MWF 7:30am

Mail arrives Copping MWF 8pm
Mail closes at Copping MWF 12:30pm (Arrives Hobart 7am)

Rod, as always, great research. Keep up the great work.

To find Copping, Tasmania
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It will be (9sqm) in the cemetery, but you can walk into town from there.

Copping is unrated (common) for this period - as indeed are all recorded cancellations from Copping.

As per John Hardinge, Tasmanian Postal History Post Office and Datestamp Compendium (2019), p.50.