Annual report / Australian Post Office

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Australia. Postmaster-General's Department
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Nq 328.94 AUS
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[Canberra, A.C.T. : Postmaster General's Department, 1969-1975]
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PP no. 207 of 1971
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AUSTRALIAN POST OFFICE ANNUAL REPORT FOR YEAR 1970-71 1
AUSTRALIAN POST OFFICE ANNUAL REPORT FOR YEAR 1970-71 3 , 4
Contents 5 , 6 , 7
Highlights 8
Management 9
Postal Services Extended 10 , 11 , 12
Telecommunications Achievements 13 , 14 , 15 , 16
Sir Alan Hulme congratulates Sir John Knott after the announcement that the Captain Cook Bicentenary Stamp Pack had won the 1971 Gold Modal Award for export packaging. 17
A souvenir cover showing the new modern Philatelic Centre in Sydney. Since its opening by the Postmaster-General the Centre has been strongly patronised by philatelists and collectors. 17
Mr. A. F. Spratt won the metropolitan title at the Victorian State singles championships. He was runner-up in the State title match. He is the First Assistant Director-General (Management Services) at Head Office. 18
Professor A. L. Basham, President of the 28th International Congress of Orientalists receives a framed presentation of three Australia-Asia stamps from Mr. F. C. Boyle, head of the A.P.O. Secretariat in Canberra. 18
Some stamps of the year 19
Above. Flashback. July 1970. At the opening of the 1430-mile East-West microwave trunk system, the N.S.W. Premier, Mr. Askin received the first S.T.D. call in the Eastern States, from Perth. The caller was the then Premier of W.A. Sir David Brand. 20
Left. Part of the Manual Assistance Centre at the Hamilton Trunk Exchange, Newcastle. Operators, using modern equipment, provide assistance and information to customers in Newcastle and surrounding areas. 20
Financial Results for 1970/71 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35
The Post Office is using motor cycles and scooters more and more to speed up mail and telegram deliveries in outer suburban and country areas. 37
Providing for telephone services sometimes involves extensive excavation and tunnelling. Outside the North Melbourne telephone exchange large junction cables were laid to connect the exchange to others in the metropolitan area. 37
Top. Part of the display of Post Office equipment at the Institution of Radio and Electronic Engineers Convention in Melbourne in May. Pictured are visitors listening to a description of the backlit diagrams of electronic circuits to be used in telephone exchanges of the future. 38
Below left. A close-up of miniaturised electronic components being tested by a Logic Test Probe. The Probe was developed in the Australian Post Office Research Laboratories and is used to determine electrical characteristics of individual logic devices. 38
Below right. Mail Exchange mechanisation. This Letter Preparation Line in Melbourne performs a number of tasks - it culls, faces up and cancels mail at high speed. Similar modern equipment is planned for other major mail exchanges. 38
Below. Pictured is a technician using a 'cherry-picker' for maintenance work on one of the five vertical logarithmic periodic transmitting aerials at Radio Australia's short-wave booster station near Darwin. 39
Top right. A Mail Officer at the Roma Street Mail Exchange in Brisbane cancels stamps on some of the 2,500 half-pound blocks of timber samples sent by a sawmilling company to builders and architects in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast. 39
Below right. An A.P.O. technical officer adjusting tape at a Common User Data Network centre. C.U.D.N. will go into operation initially in Brisbane and later will be extended throughout Australia. 39
Another customer appreciates the convenient packing and wrapping facility provided by Jiffy Bags. The service is to be extended widely to meet a growing customer demand. 40
A boon to thrifty customers. The telephone account "Lay-By" instalment plan, introduced during the year, helps customers budget for their telephone accounts. 40
The Future 41 , 42 , 43
The Post Office and Its Staff 44 , 45 , 46 , 47
Other Post Office Activities 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 54

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