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Sussex Sussex
The postal agency at Sussex opened at 17 Gabriel Street in the village on
2 November 1952. It closed on 25 March 1961, a few weeks before independence.
The post was exchanged with Freetown twice weekly. Sussex is situated on the
Atlantic coast, ten miles south of Freetown. Despite its relative recent existence,
Sussex is a rare office with examples difficult to collect.
Type 148.01
26 June 1955 - Second class airmail from Sussex to Kilmarnock, United Kingdom.
Registered letter from the small coastal village of Sussex to Scotland. A Freetown backstamp of 28 June shows
that the ten-mile trip to the capital took two days. Second class airmail to the United Kingdom was 6d per half
ounce, plus 4d registration fee.
