The Stamp of Australia

The story of Australia's postal servicesnow two hundred years oldis the story of Australia itself. At first, a small huddle of colonists awaited letters from England, which most of them regarded as home'. Later, as settlers dispersed, letters kept people in touch with each other over vast distances and difficult terrain. Over the years soldiers wrote back reassuringly from battlefields abroad; lovers shared intimacies; and new waves of immigrants urged those they had left behind to follow them i