{{infobox company
| company_name = Australia Post
| company_logo =
| company_type = Government Business Enterprise
| foundation = 1901 as Postmaster-General's Department
| location = Melbourne
| key_people = David Mortimer (Board Member and Chairman}
Graeme John (Board Member and Managing Director}
| industry = Post
| products = Postal service, Office supplies, Greeting cards
| revenue = $4.53 billion AUD (2006 1)
| operating_income =
| net_income =
| num_employees = approx. 34,800 2
| parent =
| subsid =
| homepage = www.auspost.com.au
| footnotes =
}}
main: Postal service in Australia
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{{infobox company
| company_name = Australia Post
| company_logo =
| company_type = Government Business Enterprise
| foundation = 1901 as Postmaster-General's Department
| location = Melbourne
| key_people = David Mortimer (Board Member and Chairman}
Graeme John (Board Member and Managing Director}
| industry = Post
| products = Postal service, Office supplies, Greeting cards
| revenue = $4.53 billion AUD (2006 1)
| operating_income =
| net_income =
| num_employees = approx. 34,800 2
| parent =
| subsid =
| homepage = www.auspost.com.au
| footnotes =
}}
main: Postal service in Australia
Australia Post is trading name of the Australian Government-owned Australian Postal Corporation, the postal service with a monopoly in Australia.
History
The Postal Act of 1825 allowed the governor to fix postage rates and appoint Postmasters outside Sydney, enabling the first organized postal service..
Postal services grew throughout the Australian colonies as they were established.
A regular Sydney-Melbourne overland service began in 1838, as did embossed covers (the world's first) prepaid postage Fact: date=March 2007, and by 1849 uniform postal rates were established by agreement between the colonies. Monthly steamship sea mail to the United Kingdom was established in 1856. The separate colonies joined the Universal Postal Union in 1891.
In 1901, the colonial mail systems were merged into the Postmaster General's Department (or PMG). This body was responsible for telegraph and domestic telephone operations as well as postal mail. The world's first large-scale mechanical mail sorting system was introduced in Australia (according to Australia Post), and operational in the Sydney GPO in 1967. This coincided with the introduction of the current system of 4-digit Postcodes in Australia.
On July 1, 1975, separate government commissions were created to undertake the operational responsibilities of the PMG. One of these was the Australian Postal Commission, trading as Australia Post. It later changed its name to the Australian Postal Corporation on January 1, 1989 when it was corporatised, although it still trades as Australia Post.
Current activities
