Handbook & Checklist of New Jersey Dpos

Handbook & checklist of new jersey dpos

[a digitalized list of the original by Brad Arch]

Included:

Name of office; earliest latest years of operation (although some offices may have been inactive for short periods within), and county of location according to present boundaries.

NOT INCLUDED:

Minor spelling changes, such as

boro for borough, or burg for burgh.

One & two word spellings of the same name, such as La Fayette for Lafayette, or Cedargrove for Cedar Grove.

Possessive endings, as with or without an apostrophe, most of these occurring around the turn of the century.

(*) asterisk

For listings followed by an asterisk (*), the particular name may still be in use, although in a different category, such as an independent office becoming a branch, or a branch becoming a station, or vice-versa, etc.

Brad Arch, editor

Original printing 1981

Digital version 2006

For more detailed information, consult New Jersey Postal History by Kay &: Smith

This digital list has been created from the listing made by Brad Arch in 1981. His listing was in turn based on Smith and Kay, published in 1977. No attempt has been made to change his listing or bring it up to date, so there are doubtless other DPOs that have occurred during these 30 years. For a full listing of NJ DPOs to date [2006], please consult the NJ Post Office listing - a larger and more complicated file. This present file maintains the easy simplicity of Brad Arch’s invaluable original listing. If you wish a hardcopy, these are still available from the New Jersey Postal History Society for $3.00 in a handy picket-sized format [an alphabetical listing only].

We have put it into a spreadsheet format, which allows sorting by county, years in service, opening date, and closing date. You may of course feel free to sort this listing as you wish - some basic presorts have been done, and are accessible by clicking the tabs across the bottom. It is recommended that you make a backup copy before you begin.

There are five lists [or worksheets] in this workbook:

Alphabetical

Arranged by County

Arranged by the year a DPO opened

Arranged by the year a DPO closed

and arranged by the number of years in service

The first two are likely the most useful - the others provide an interesting look at DPOs, give a general feel for when a number of POs were opened or closed, and an idea - if a PO was open for only a brief period - of which might be most valuable or elusive.

If you should wish to print out one county only, highlight that section and then go to the file menu. Under print area, choose “Set Print Area” - then preview your choice to be sure it will print as you wish. If not, you may have to make adjustments in the set-up menu.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at .

Print copies of Brad’s original list [$3] are available at

Jean Walton, Sect’y

NJPHS

125 Turtleback Road

Califon, NJ 07830

4/03/2006

Note: For ten years, Brad ran a continuing series, showing covers with New Jersey DPOs. An index to those illustrations is included in this folder, and will tell you which issue to look in for a particular cancel [tho of course not all DPOs are represented, almost 300 were]. We have indicated no dates, as these illustrations are black & white photocopies which in many cases did not reproduce well enough to determine a date, and Brad included only the dates of the PO’s existence. While many covers came from his own collection, he welcomed input from members; unfortunately there is no way to know which covers were contributed by which members. The opening page of this project follows:

New Jersey

Discontinued Post Offices

The Beginning of a regular Column!

Based on all previous membership surveys, the collecting of covers from New Jersey Discontinued Post Offices is the most popular collecting specialty. This is the beginning of what we hope will be a regular series to appear in every future issue of the Journal. Depending upon available space left from other articles we will attempt to bring you more than one page per issue, illustrating one or two covers from each DPO, in random order, from A to Z, north to south, stampless to modern, etc.-without the need to go into any detail concerning the history of the post offices involved. We will leave that to others to pursue the local postal history.

Although- we have a significant number of illustrations on hand to get this project started and to keep it going for quite a while, based mostly on a collection which is heavily represented by the stampless through classic periods, we are always interested in receiving clear-high contrast Xeroxes (with large margins so we can frame it, do not cut to shape) of interesting DPO covers from the readers. Rather than show only common 2¢ & 3¢ domestic rate covers, where we have a choice we will select an unusual and/or interesting rate or usage or postmark type. In rare instances we will show a larger selection of covers from one particular post office illustrating various unusual rates and usages. We look forward to receiving your input.

NJPH

January 1990 21