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Australia Post, formally the Australian Postal Corporation and also known as AusPost, is an Australian Government-owned corporation that provides postal services throughout Australia. Australia Post's head office is located on Swan Street in Richmond Victoria.
A block of four £2 "Roo" stamps showing the printer's imprint in the selvedge 1d King George V, used at Sydney in 1916. The six self-governing Australian colonies that formed the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901 had operated their own postal service and issued their own stamps – see articles on the systems on New South Wales (first stamps issued 1850), Victoria (1850), Tasmania ...
1840 1 May - United Kingdom issues the Penny Black and Two Pence Blue, the world's first postage stamps. 1840 6 May - The Penny Black and Two Pence Blue, world's first postage stamps, become valid for the pre-payment of postage. 1842 1 February City Despatch Post New York local post. 1843 1 March - Zürich issue their first stamps: Zürich 4 and 6.
1921: During a 15-day period the Mishawaka post office dispatched a total of 8,250 parcels with a weight of 61,272 pounds. Over 30 tons in 15 days! Headlines in History 1921: Record for sending ...
Postage stamps and postal history of New South Wales; Postage stamps and postal history of Norfolk Island; Postage stamps and postal history of Queensland; Postage stamps and postal history of South Australia; Postage stamps and postal history of Tasmania; Postage stamps and postal history of the Australian Antarctic Territory; Postage stamps ...
Manual telephone, c. 1950. The phone and lines remained the property of the PMG. The Postmaster-General's Department (PMG) was a department of the Australian federal government, established at Federation in 1901, whose responsibilities included the provision of postal and telegraphic services throughout Australia.
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Postal history has become a philatelic collecting speciality in its own right. Whereas traditional philately is concerned with the study of the stamps per se, including the technical aspects of stamp production and distribution, philatelic postal history refers to stamps as historical documents; similarly re postmarks, postcards, envelopes and the letters they contain.