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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 ...
Australia Post Concession stamps are special non-denominational stamps that enable eligible concession card holders to receive a reduced rate on domestic postage, up to a certain value each year. A limited number of these stamps, when issued, are also made available to philatelic collectors in the form of special products.
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.
The "PMG" stamp can still be found on many manhole covers, such as this one in central Perth. The Postmaster-General's Department was created in 1901 to take over all postal and telegraphy services in Australia from the states and administer them on a national basis.
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 ...
A 6d stamp of 1858 showing Queen Victoria on the Coronation chair. Victoria, a state of Australia and until 1901 a British colony, was still under the control of New South Wales when its first post office was opened in Melbourne in April 1837. Post offices opened at Geelong and Portland soon after, and by 1850 there were forty-five post offices ...
The Australian Legends is an annual series of commemorative postage stamps issued by Australia Post since 1997. [1] The stamps commemorate living Australians who have made lifetime contributions to the development of the Commonwealth's national identity and character. [2]
Larger post offices also impressed a date-stamp on covers with the name of the originating office. This means that covers or stamps torn from covers or pairs of stamps can be used to tie numbers to mailing offices where official records are missing. Even so, as many as 300 New South Wales numbers are still untied.