The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Sorting newspapers at the Australian Base Post Office, showing key to sorting racks for the information of new female sorters. Newspapers were the only class of mail matter despatched from the Base Post Office without the original address having been verified by the latest card record of the addressee.
Letter sorting section at the Australian Base Post Office. This section dealt with mail matter for every unit of the AIF, some 600 bags being made up daily. During the quarter ending 31 December 1918,
Officers and staff of the Australian Base Post Office London. The staff numbers over seven hundred employees of whom the greater number are women who had to be specially trained for the work. Mail arr
SYDNEY, N.S.W. 1944-11-17. TROOPS AT 1 BASE POST OFFICE, MARY STREET, REMOVING MAIL FROM BAGS TO BINS, AND TRANSFERRING 1ST CLASS MAIL MATTER FOR WEIGHING AND PRIMARY SORTING. IDENTIFIED PERSONNEL ARE
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. 1943-04-01. NO. 2 AUSTRALIAN ARMY BASE POST OFFICE, PALAIS- DE- DANCE, ST. KILDA. THE NEXT STAGE IS THE PRIMARY HANDLING OF AIR MAIL LETTERS. PRIVATES HAWKER (LEFT) AND WARREN AR
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. 1943-04-01. NO. 2 AUSTRALIAN ARMY BASE POST OFFICE, PALAIS- DE- DANCE, ST. KILDA. PRIVATE CURROW (LEFT) AND PRIVATE WARREN SORTING INTO FINAL SURFACE MAIL RACKS. IN THE RIGHT FOR
Redirecting letters at the Australian Base Post Office. Every letter from Australia was alphabetically and numerically sorted and the address compared with the latest record, 57 per cent of such lette
