The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Portion of the redirection sorting room at the Australian Base Post Office, showing an Australian mail of 750,000 letters being compared with record cards. The mails were received from the various States of the Commonwealth, alphabetically sorted and labelled. Upon arrival at the base each bag was taken to its place, according to the letter of the alphabet, and a commencement made to sort the letters numerically. A mail of 750,000 was usually numerically sorted, redirected, and finally unit sorted in from eight to ten days.
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
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
Opens with interior shot of postal sorting room. Postal bin marked 'Pacific'. Shots of men and women sorting parcels and weighing mailbags. 'PMG Melbourne Aust.' on the mail bag. Scene change to truck
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,
Trucking and sorting empty mail bags at the Australian Base Post Office. All mail bags were immediately turned when opened, any damaged bags being forwarded to the Civil Postal Service for repair, and
BALIKPAPAN AREA, BORNEO, 24 JULY 1945. LANCE CORPORAL R A SAXBY BAGGING BUNDLES OF SORTED LETTERS IN THE SORTING ROOM OF 6 BASE POSTAL UNIT.
