stamp bulletin - Australia Post Shop

Postmarks
Ordering postmark impressions by mail
Please forward fully stamped and addressed covers,
under prepaid outer envelopes, to post office addresses listed on these pages.
• Endorse cover in the top left corner with the name of the postmark required.
• Orders must be lodged before the last day of use of the postmarker.
National FDI Postmarks and Commemorative Postmarks
• These may be ordered from the Australian Philatelic Bureau.
Associated Postmarks and Permanent Pictorial Postmarks
• These should be ordered directly from the post office concerned.
• A minimum base-rate 45c stamp is required to obtain a postmark impression.
• Serviced covers are 70c each, unless otherwise specified.
National FDI Postmarks
First day covers, serviced with national first
day of issue postmarks, are available from all
First Day of Issue Post Offices and by mail
order from the Australian Philatelic Bureau
for four weeks.
Private covers can only be serviced:
• at the designated post office on the day of issue
OR
• by the Bureau if covers are received prior to the
first day of issue.
1 January Face of Australia
• Canberra GPO ACT 2601
There are five different first day covers for the
Face of Australia stamp issue. Each cover carries
the names of the individuals whose stamps
appear on the first day covers. First day covers and
blank first day covers will be sold in sets of five.
13 January Lunar New Year, Year of the Dragon
• Christmas Island Australia 6798
Australian Legends
• To be announced on 21 January 2000.
24 February Arts Festivals
Adelaide GPO SA 5000
Associated Postmarks
The following associated postmarks may appeal
to thematic collectors. Orders should be sent to
the relevant post office.
Arts Festivals 10 Feb 2000
• Adelaide GPO GPO Tower
• Melbourne GPO Melbourne City
Marketing logo
Ordering of postmarks
All items which are accompanied by a mail
order code are available from the Australian
Philatelic Bureau. Where an item does not
have a mail order code, it can only be ordered
directly from the post office indicated.
Postmarks
Permanent Pictorial Postmarks
Impressions of permanent pictorial
postmarkers are available from the following
post offices from the dates listed below.
Stamps to a minimum value of 45c should
be affixed to private covers.
1 January 2000
Mallacoota ,VIC 3892
3 January 2000
Myrtleford, design features local industries
(wine, tobacco and timber) Myrtleford VIC 3737
4 January 2000
Christmas Island, design features Christmas Island red crab
(Gecarcoidea natalis). Christmas Island, Australia 6798
Coffin Bay, design features southern right whale and scene
of the bay, Coffin Bay SA 5607
Edithburgh, design features Troubridge Island lighthouse,
Edithburgh SA 5583.
Point Wakefield, design features historic sailing vessel which
is also the town’s logo. Point Wakefield SA 5550
Witchcliffe, design features a witch on a broomstick.
LPO Witchcliffe WA 6286.
13 January 2000
Cabramatta, design features dragon motif and the entrance
to Freedom Square. Cabramatta NSW 2166.
Haymarket, design features entrance to Chinatown and Year
of the Dragon motif, Haymarket NSW 2000.
The Little Bourke Street Post Shop, design features Lunar
New Year, Year of the Dragon. Melbourne Vic 3000
Commemorative Postmarks
Australian residents should send their orders to
the addresses noted in these listings. All orders
should be accompanied by payment of 70c
per cover, unless specified otherwise.
Australian International Guide Jamboree, 2-9 January 2000
Australian International Guide Jamboree
The theme is ‘Beyond Imagining’. The
postmark will be used on the blank first day
cover for the Celebrate 2000 stamp issue for
each day of the Jamboree. Impressions available
during the Jamboree, Watson Park, Dakabin,
QLD, after this from Kallangur Post Office
QLD or the Australian Philatelic Bureau.
1090250 Guide Jamboree ....................................$0.70
Penola SA, 150th Anniversary, 4 January 2000
Celebrating Penola’s 150th anniversary,
design features a rose and two heritage houses.
Impressions from, Penola SA 5277
1090251 Penola SA, 150th Anniversary Postmark..$0.70
Freemason’s Grand Lodge of WA, 27 February to
30 December 2000
Commemorating the lodge’s centenary,
East Perth WA 6004
1090252 Freemason’s Grand Lodge of WA Centenary
Postmark ..........................................$0.70
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