Friday 1 February 2013

mobile PO part 4


Here are a few PPB registration labels. PPB stands for pejabat pos bergerak which is Malay for mobile post office. This abbreviation was used after North Borneo/Sabah became part of Malaysia. I find it rather confusing as to why the postmarks used on these covers were not the PPB type.
This "modern" stuff is by no means easy to find.
Update I have information that these label may have been remainders used due to lack of the normal labels or the practical decision to use up surplus. Therefore these covers are probably not PPB type. Anyway, the labels are shown quite nicely.

This Tawau PPB1 registration label is not even recorded in the series of articles in the Sarawak Journal. There should be at least 5 mobile post office labels for Tawau  and possibly a few more yet to be recorded.


This Tenom PPB is probably not that common. Again the postmark is not the PPB type. There are at least 3 types including a hand stamp cachet.


This Kudat PPB1 label is again not recorded in the journal. It is one of at least 6 types including one cachet.

This is a nice Kota Kinabalu (Jesselton) MPO 1 label. KK had labels for MPO, PPB and also railway TPO. You can see the misnomer Kudat MTO6 and the KK PPB1 by clicking here.  

Just another nice MPO 3 cancelled cover from Sandakan.

Although overcut at one end, this is at least a commercial cover with a clear Railway TPO1 cancellation.

9 comments:

  1. The PPB labels with no PPB cancellations are remainders from PPB stocks which was used to supplement the regular PO during shortage. Sometimes they will cross out the PPB but sometimes they leave it as if.

    Johnson

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  2. That explains it and thank you very much for the information. You do not happen to be a member of the Sarawak Specialist Society, are you?

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  3. I am not a SSS member but a PSM member. Lots of great stuffs and info you got here!

    Johnson

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  4. Many thanks! If you are interested in joining, you would be very welcome. We publish a quarterly journal. What I have here barely scratches the surface!

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  5. Many thanks for the info! It is great to have blogs like yours. I have been reading another blog northborneostamps.blogspot.com but it looks like he have stop blogging for quite a while. Anyway I look forward to your weekly postings!

    Johnson

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    1. Marcel on that blog is busy working and studying. We hope he will be back to blogging soon.
      I can also recommend Silamstar's blog Hunters' Paradise. Well, he started it all.

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    2. I started on Hunter's Paradise By Silamstar earlier but it also went slow on the post as well, but great blog nevertheless!

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  6. A great collection..im inspire to have a NB stamp like you one day...love it

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    1. Thanks. I am sure you can do it as well. Took me a few years though.

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