Mons (BE)

Mons is a city and municipality (93,366 inhabitants in 2014), and the capital of the Walloon province of Hainaut. The Mons municipality includes the former villages of Ciply, Harveng, Mesvin, Nouvelles, Spiennes, Villers-Saint-Ghislain, Masnuy-Saint-Jean (partly), Ville-sur-Haine (partly), plus larger entities as described in the postal history.

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Postal history

Mons post-office opened before 1830. It used a postal code 83 with bars (before 1864), and 252 with points before 1874. Other municipalities with post-office opening dates before 1910:

Jemappes (1 September 1847) - Code 65 with bars, 196 with points;

Obourg (13 June 1860) - Code 119 with bars, 276 with points;

Havré (28 June 1861) - Code 122 with bars, 173 with points;

Ghlin (13 August 1866) - Code 420 with points;

Baudour (partly) (1 April 1869) - Code 68 with points;

Nimy (1 April 1872) - Code 438 with points;

Harmignies (1 April 1872) - Code 439 with points.

Opened after the end of use of numeral codes on 10 March 1873:

Flénu-Produit (5 August 1876);

Cuesmes-Trieu (25 April 1878);

Hyon-Ciply (17 February 1880);

Saint-Denis-Bovesse (3 May 1880);