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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 ...
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.
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 ...
In this aircraft in 1933, Ulm set the speed record from England to Australia at 6 days, 17 hours and 56 minutes, and made several trans-Tasman flights. In 1934, flying in Faith in Australia , Ulm carried the first official airmail from New Zealand to Australia, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and the first official airmail delivery from Australia to Papua New Guinea .
On 26 December 2013, due to the heavy decline in mail usage due to competition from email, etc., Australia Post requested an increase in the base rate to 70c. [6] On 4 January 2016, due to the heavy decline in mail usage due to competition from email, etc., Australia Post requested an increase in the base rate to $1.00. [7]
Avro 504K replica on display in Qantas' Sydney Airport domestic terminal Arrival at Longreach of the Armstrong Whitworth FK8 with the first bag of airmail on the inaugural flight of the first Qantas air service from Charleville to Cloncurry, 22 November 1922 Qantas-manufactured de Havilland DH.50J, circa 1928 Qantas Short S.23 Empire flying boat
1635 31 July - Charles I made the Royal Mail service available to the public for the first time with postage being paid by the recipient. [7]1639 - The General Court of Massachusetts designates the tavern of Richard Fairbanks in Boston as the official repository of overseas mail, making it the first postal establishment in the Thirteen Colonies.