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Australia's first airmail-designated stamp appeared on 20 May 1929. A special 3d (three pence) airmail stamp was available for mail sent on the Perth-Adelaide air service. The cost of this service was 3d per ½ oz plus normal postage. On 19 March 1931 and 4 November 1931, a further two airmail-designated stamps, both 6d (sixpence), appeared.
1949 Irish 1 shilling airmail stamp. An airmail stamp is a postage stamp intended to pay either an airmail fee that is charged in addition to the surface rate, or the full airmail rate, for an item of mail to be transported by air.
In June 1919, Alcock and Brown completed the first transatlantic airmail flight. The first airmail service established officially by an airline occurred in Colombia, South America, on 19 October 1920. Scadta, the first airline of the country, flew landing river by river delivering mail in its destinations. Australia's first airmail contract was ...
Air mail [29] Melbourne to Sydney: Blériot XI: Maurice Guillaux: 1919: 1919-08-06: Air mail over-water flight (in Southern Hemisphere) [30] Adelaide to Minlaton: Avro 504: Harry Butler: 1919: 1919-11-16: Crossing of continent [31] Melbourne to Port Darwin: B.E.2e: Henry Wrigley and Arthur Murphy: 1919: 1919-12-16: Bass Strait [32] Stanley ...
The United States officially requires international First Class and Priority Mail letters to be marked with "AIRMAIL/PAR AVION". [2] [3] This requirement is often ignored in modern practice since the United States Postal Service discontinued international surface mail in 2007; [4] all international mail from the US is now sent via airmail. Pre ...
FreeTV is the industry body that represents the Free-to-air Australian TV networks. It is unique in that it is an industry body that has all the companies in the ...
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TiVo is a digital video recorder for free-to-air television with Internet features. TiVo content is available quota-free by ISP's Internode, [21] iiNet, iPrimus and Aussie Broadband. In December 2009, TiVo launched a new service for downloading TV shows and movies to TiVo subscribers, named CASPA.