Australia : 1900-1988.
Administrative arrangements for the costs of Porterage.
Administrative arrangements for the costs of Porterage.
- Australia 1901-1988
- New South Wales
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
- Western Australia
- International
- Special aspects
This page describes:
- the Regulations governing the costs of delivering telegrams, the responsibilities and the costs incurred;
- the several ways of notification of the costs;
- the form required when costs were declined.
The 1922 Post and Telegraph Guide outlined the Porterage charges on pages 195-6 starting with Para 350. The relevant paragraphs are included below.
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Essentially the cost was 3d for deliveries beyond 3½ miles from a General Post Office and 1½ miles from a local Post Office - with several caveats.
The 1952 Regulations were very similar except that:
- the distance for free delivery from a Chief Telegraph Office was reduced to 3 miles;
- a radius of 2 miles was esablished for free delivery from any office "where, in the opinion of the Postmaster-General, the circumstances warrant a free delivery";
- porterage charges were increased - from 3d per quarter mile to 6d per quarter mile beyond the free delivery area.
Other paragraphs such as 237 and 239 above remained.
Only one form explicitly addressing porterage costs is now known.
| Form T.G. 40 used to notify the sender of a telegram that porterage fees were declined by a recipient. |  Printed in January 1929. |