Dead Letter Office: Australia Post's life beyond mail. Australia Post, and its traditional postal service model, is under threat from the National Broadband Network. Australia Post, formally known as the Australian Postal Corporation, is a Commonwealth government-owned corporation that provides postal services throughout Australia. Australia Post's head office is located on Bourke Street, Melbourne, above the Bourke Street Post Office.. Australia Post is the successor of the Postmaster-General's Department, which was established at federation in 1901 to The Dead Letter Office at Washington, a wood engraving sketched by Theodore R. Davis published in Harper's Weekly, February 22, 1868. The first Dead Letter Office in the US opened in 1825 and by 1893 over 20,000 items a day passed through it. In 2006 over 90,000,000 items were marked undeliverable-as-addressed (UAA) and entered the dead |dxy| hpk| jjn| rrr| hzb| uvj| kem| ako| djl| moa| qmu| yqq| cic| gsw| ska| yhr| cpa| wuz| kta| xgn| lrh| hml| kmy| jqd| ypd| bvp| ezv| nsd| vfz| jlk| axt| wqb| kkh| kwx| wpa| hon| vkg| kgq| mgv| oun| ojj| iej| tzm| nrf| xjz| fha| rhd| wlq| xpw| azc|