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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.
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 ...
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.
The First Cricket Tour: 150 Years stamp issue commemorates the first international cricket tour by a team from Australia, which occurred 150 years ago in 1868. The 1868 tour of England was undertaken by a team of 13 Aboriginal cricketers, most of whom were Jardwadjali, Gunditjmara and Wotjobaluk men from the Western District of Victoria.
An airmail service was introduced in 1914. [5] In 1967, 4-digit postcodes in Australia were introduced, in addition to the world's first mechanical processing centre, which garnered international attention. [7] On 1 July 1975, separate government commissions were created to undertake the operational responsibilities of the PMG.
Ernest François Guillaux (24 January 1883 – 21 May 1917), better known by his adopted name Maurice Guillaux, was a French aviator who spent seven months in Australia in 1914. On 16–18 July 1914, he flew Australia's first air mail and air freight flight, from Melbourne to Sydney.
However, two modifications were made on the Singapore postal system in Christmas Island: the airmail postage rate to Australia was reduced and Australian cancelling stamps were sent in 1958 with the designation: "CHRISTMAS ISLAND / INDIAN OCEAN / AUST". [2] The first philatelic issue was released on 15 October 1958.