This letterbox hybrid cache is in a small reserve at the end of Jordan Street in Mornington. Go to the cul-de-sac at the end of Jordan Street and you'll see a concrete pathway going through the reserve. Walk down the path, across the creek, then duck under the handrail. Follow up the true left bank of the creek about 50 m to a flat area beside a small waterfall. An easy place to get to on a fine day, but if it's been raining then it will be muddy and slippery underfoot.
The stamp (only a bought one, sorry) is a scooter like a postie might use. Remember that the stamp and stamp pad are part of the letterbox hybrid cache - please leave them in the small screwtop container inside the cache.
Jordan Street? If you wanted to send a letter the postie would be puzzled - there is no Jordan Street anywhere in Dunedin. It's one of the many streets in Dunedin which has changed its name over the years. This road was originally Gordon Street and was renamed Jordan Street in 1916. Were letters being delivered to Gordon Road, Mosgiel? Sometime after 1930 the street received the much more pretentious moniker of Oakwood Avenue.
Gordon/Jordan/Oakwood is not the only Dunedin street which has changed names three times. Broughton St in Wakari changed to Brighton St in 1913 and then again to Beresford St in 1951. First Ave, NEV, became Zetland Ave and then Jura St.
Postal confusion was the main reason for street name changes. Many boroughs amalgamated with Dunedin City at the start of the 20th century - Caversham 1904, South Dunedin 1905, Roslyn 1912, Maori Hill 1915 and finally Mornington in 1916 - and duplicated street names were usually changed.
In 1916 the DCC passed a Special Order Altering Street Names: ODT 18 April 1916. This lists Gordon Street, Mornington, changing to Jordon St ("Jordon" must have been a typo?) and also Gordon St, NEV, changing to Gillespie St. Interesting to see that Cutten St, Andersons Bay, became Gallipoli St and the area in front of the Railway Station was named Anzac Square.
The City Engineer had a reference list of 1916 street name changes: List of street names changed 1916 with a number of later street name changes added by hand.
Patriotism was another reason for street name changes. The residents of Linden Street asked for the name to be changed to Wright Street in 1918 (because the main avenue in Berlin was the Unter der Linden, "under the lime trees"). Zetland Street, NEV, was changed to Jura Street (although there was no actual German connection here either - it was named after the Marquess of Zetland). And in 1921 Brunswick Road, South Dunedin, was renamed Loyalty Street in recognition that the street had provided more soldiers for the war in relation to the number of households than any other street in the city.
Street names are also used as memorials. You've read the plaque at I may be some time so you know why John Street was renamed Oates Street and James Street was renamed Falcon Street in 1913, following the tragic 1912 British Antarctic Expedition. There were already many Scott Streets in wider Dunedin (there are still two, in Waverley and St Kilda) so Captain Scott's second name was used instead. The name of Cemetery Road was changed in 1968; it was Jack Lovelock's daily running route between his home at 38 Warden Street, Opoho, and lectures at the Med School. A hundred years after women's suffrage in 1893, three cul-de-sacs in the University area were named after prominent women Ethel Benjamin (NZ's first female lawyer 1897), Ethel MacMillan (first woman to be elected onto Dunedin City Council in 1950) and Emily Siedeberg (NZ's first female medical graduate 1896).
The wider Dunedin City has 2260 named roads with 339 roads that have duplicate names elsewhere in the city. There are five road names that each have four separate roads with the same name (Clyde Street, Brown Street, Queen Street, Cemetery Road, Main Road). Many of the duplicate road names occur between the old Dunedin city roads (pre 1989) and former borough roads (Mosgiel, Port Chalmers, Waikouaiti, etc). Find out where they are on the DCC Street webmap: Dunedin street map
So it's no use telling you that this letterbox cache is in the DCC reserve at 159 Forfar St, because you might end up at Waikouaiti or Mosgiel instead of Dunedin... unless you used your GPS...