Melbourne (AU)

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Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The name "Melbourne" refers to an urban agglomeration area (and census statistical division) spanning 9,900 km2 (3,857.2 sq mi) that comprises the greater metropolis – as well as being a common name for its metropolitan hub, the Melbourne City Centre. It is a leading financial centre in Australia, as well as the Asia-Pacific region, and has been ranked the world's most livable city since 2011 (and among the top three since 2002), according the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). In 2013 the EIU also ranked Melbourne the fourth most expensive city in the world, tying with Oslo, Norway. Melbourne is rated highly in the areas of education, entertainment, healthcare, research and development, tourism and sports.

Read more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne

Melbourne Main GPO

Elizabeth Street GPO Melbourne

Melbourne Post Office opened 13 April 1837

Renamed Elizabeth Street Post Office - 4 June 1917

Renamed Melbourne from Elizabeth Street - 1 January 1964

Australia cancels

On a 1919 issue.

Melbourne, Victoria 3000 -215

Meter cancels

Meter cancel 1963

Meter cancel 1974

Meter cancel 1982

Meter cancel 1984

Covers

1933 Melbourne to Tacoma, Washington, USA. With Slogan cancel.

1936 Melbourne to Toronto, Canada. With Slogan cancel.

Victoria State cancels

Before 1913.

Melbourne Victoria 1877 issue	Circle MELBOURNE A in 1893	Circle MELBOURNE in 1897, expedition 15 A	Circle in 1898
Circle in 1899, expedtion 23 A	Circle in Nov. 1899, expedition 7 O	POSTAGE issue in 1901 - mechanical mark	Circle MELBOURNE 10 in 1908

Double circles

Sub-offices?

DC MELBOURNE 1 (?) in March 1901.	DC at MELBOURNE 6 in 1900, expedition PM 2:15	DC at MELBOURNE 7 in 1900, expedition AM 11:45	DC at MELBOURNE 16 in 1906, expedition PM 5:15
DC at MELBOURNE 17 in 1900	DC at MELBOURNE 18 in 1901	DC at MELBOURNE 20 in 1900, expedition PM 1:30	DC MELBOURNE in February 1901 on a 1886 Stamp Duty issue.

Branch & Sub office postmarks

158 East Collingwood / Fitzroy / Collingwood

Fitzroy is an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District in the local government area of the City of Yarra. At the 2016 Census, Fitzroy had a population of 10,445. Planned as Melbourne's first suburb,[2] it was later also one of the city's first areas to gain municipal status. It occupies Melbourne's smallest and most densely populated suburban area, just 100 ha.

Fitzroy is known throughout Australia for its street art, music scene and culture of bohemianism, and is the main home of Melbourne's Fringe Festival. Its commercial heart is Brunswick Street, one of Melbourne's major retail, culinary, and nightlife strips. Long associated with the working class, Fitzroy has undergone waves of urban renewal and gentrification since the 1980s and today is inhabited by a wide variety of socio-economic groups, featuring both some of the most expensive rents in Melbourne and one of its largest public housing complexes, Atherton Gardens. It was named after Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy, the Governor of New South Wales from 1846 to 1855.Fitzroy was Melbourne's first suburb, created in 1839 when the area between Melbourne and Alexandra Parade (originally named Newtown)[5] was subdivided into vacant lots and offered for sale.

Post office 158 EAST COLLINGWOOD (renamed FITZROY, then COLLINGWOOD)

On a 1901 issue.

Collins Street

Post Office opened 1 September 1925 - Closed 26 June 1992 an important office in the Docklands area.

1934 Collins Street, Melbourne to Adelaide, South Australia

See Also Stonnington (AU) for the City of Stonnington.

Ship Mail Room Postmarks

Ship Mail Room 3 1961

Telegraph Cancels

Telegraph Branch G.P.O. Melbourne c.1881