Page 189 - The Postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia

60 years previously and provided a service ‘Tor the benefit of traders”
and others.
The incoming mail was no longer 24,000 letters a year; by 1962 the
weight of incoming air mail letters alone had exceeded 100 tons a year
and Shakespear’s “beneficial and inevitable measure” had been
fully justified.
Opening Dates of Kuwait Post Offices (to 1966)
General Post Office — 1st February 1959 (“KUWAIT” P.O.,
originally opened 21.1.15, and now in its seventh location)
2. Ahmadi 1. 5.50
3. Jewan 7. 4.54
4. Safat 1. 2.58
5. Sharq 5. 4.58
6. Salamiya 24. 5.58
7. Hawalli 19. 7.58
8. Mirqab 19. 7.58
9. Fahahil 19. 7.58
10. Airport 24.11.58
11. Mubarakiya 14. 7.62
12. Failaka 16. 7.62
13. *Khafji 16. 2.63
14. Farwaniyah 8. 4.63
15. Jahara 13.11.63
16. Abraq Khaitan 27. 4.64
17. Shuaiba 25. 5.64
18. Dasmah 19. 9.64
19. Keifan 5.10.64
20. Shamiah 24. 2.65
21. Dasman 10. 3.65
22. Abu Halaifa 16.10.65
23. A1 Odailiya 1. 6.66
24. Jeleeb al Shyoukh 1. 6.66
25. Salamiya Central 24.10.66.
* In the Neutral Zone. There was also a Saudi Arabian Post Office at
Khafji.

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