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Stamp Expo: Post office tree in South Africa

08/17/2016 07:34 PM
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A milkwood tree in Mossel Bay, in South Africa's Western Cape, has been famous as a post office ever since Petro de Ataide, the captain of a Portuguese ship, left a letter for home in its shade in 1500.


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