Located twenty miles west of Spanish Town, just off the main A1 road

 

Status

PO

Opened

xx.8.1875

Closed

Cancel Type	Potter No.	EKD	LKD	Cancel Notes
Circular Named Handstamp. Type - P11	5390.01	29.6.1877	8.10.1898	Reads: “MAY-PEN” with a hyphen. Sent out in 1876.
Numerical Obliterator. Type - 640 O	5390.02	29.6.1877	27.5.1892	Sent out in 1876.
Double Ring Datestamp - with dots	5390.03	28.10.1898	15.12.1927	“M” is of even width.
Double Ring Datestamp - no dots	5390.04	20.12.1916	17.4.1919	“M” of “MAYPEN” is 2.5mm wide at top and 2mm at the bottom.
Double Ring Datestamp - no dots	5390.05	4.1.1919	22.6.1957	“M” is pinched at bottom. Rings of nearly equal weight.
Double Ring Datestamp	5390.06	26.11.1932	30.5.1962	“MAYPEN” is 23mm wide and “M” has wide legs.
Temp. Rubber Handstamp. Type - O3*/37b	5390.07	25.3.1955	31.8.1955	Office name in lower case. Isssued for “Telegraph use only”.
Temp. Rubber Handstamp. Type - O3*BWI/37a	5390.08	29.3.1955	29.3.1955	Reads: “MAY PEN / JAMAICA B.W.I.”.
Modern Single Ring (* above date)	5390.09	10.10.1956	19.10.2000	At least 4 dies. Distance between “MAY” and “PEN” varying from 2 to 7mm.
Machine M.S.R.	5390.10	6.1.1959	15.6.2000	7 wavy lines or a slogan.
Modern Single Ring	5390.11	5.8.1975	1.5.1981	Index "A" or an *
Temp. Rubber Handstamp. Type - 03*POWI	5390.12	8.11.2000	22.1.2001	Reads: “MAY PEN POST OFFICE / JAMAICA W.I.”.