Australia: 1917-1988.
Slogan date stamps used at Queensland Post Offices.

10 Queensland Post Offices - in addition to the Brisbane G.P.O. - each used one TELEGRAM slogan cancellation and that was SEND A TELEGRAM. The Queensland Post Offices using this advertising slogan are:

Bundaberg

Cairns

Gympie

Ipswich

Mackay

Maryborough

Rockhampton

Toowoomba

Townsville

 Warwick

 

Bundaberg.

The SEND A TELEGRAM slogan was used at Bundaberg in 1940.

Datestamp: Circle

(diameter: 22 mm).

Base inscription: QLD. AUST.

Characteristics:
Die 3A: narrow A starts about the middle of E below and finishes at the right side of G.

Earliest recorded date of this format:
20 March 1940.

Latest recorded date of this format:
15 October 1940.

Number in the Census: 2.

 Bundaberg20 March 1940.

Cairns.

The SEND A TELEGRAM slogan was used at Cairns between 1938 and 1941.

Datestamp: Circle (diameter: 21 mm).

Base inscription: QLD. AUST.

Characteristics:
Die 4A: A over G.

Earliest recorded date of this format:
12 April 1938.

Latest recorded date of this format:
12 May 1941.

Number in the Census: 6.

Cairns
12 April 1938.

Gympie.

The SEND A TELEGRAM slogan was used at Gympie between 1933 and 1940.

Datestamp: Circle.

Base inscription: QLD.

Characteristics:
Die 5A: A spans GR from the beginning of G.

Earliest recorded date of this format:
14 July 1933.

Latest recorded date of this format:
23 October 1940.

There appears to be three distinct periods of use:
1. July 1933 - October 1934;
2. December 1938;
3. July - October 1940.

Number in the Census: 7.

 Gympie
14 July 1933.
Two passes through the machine - probably the letter was upside down during the first pass.

 

Ipswich.

The SEND A TELEGRAM slogan was used at Ipswich from 1935 to 1941.

Datestamp: Circle.

Top inscription: Ipswich.

Base inscription: QLD.

Characteristics:
Die 3A: A spans E to the beginning of R.

Earliest recorded date of this format:
22 August 1935.

Latest recorded date of this format:
19 April 1941.

Number in the Census: 27.

 Ipswich 1935
22 August 1935.

Mackay.

The SEND A TELEGRAM slogan was used at Mackay in late 1939.

Datestamp: Circle.

Top inscription: MACKAY.

Base inscription: QLD.

Characteristics:
Die 3B: the wide A extends from the end of E to nearlly the beginning of R.

Earliest recorded date of this format:
24 November 1937.

Latest recorded date of this format:
19 December 1940.

Number in the Census: 26.

 Mackay 1937
21 January 1941.

 

Maryborough.

The SEND A TELEGRAM slogan was used at Maryborough in 1941.

Datestamp: Circle.

Top inscription: MARYBOROUGH.

Base inscription: QLD.

Characteristics:
Die 2: A over EG.

Earliest recorded date of this format:
5 August 1935.

Latest recorded date of this format:
14 October 1940.

Number in the Census: 12.

 Eddie Nolan
5 August 1935.

 

Rockhampton.

The SEND A TELEGRAM slogan was used at Rockhampton in 1941.

Datestamp: Circle.

Top inscription: ROCKHAMPTON.

Base inscription: QLD.

Characteristics:
Die 4B: A spans EG.
L, if extended, just misses the S above.

Earliest recorded date of this format:
19 April 1937.

Latest recorded date of this format:
18 July 1941.

Number in the Census: 22.

 Rockhampton
19 April 1937.

Toowoomba.

The SEND A TELEGRAM slogan was used at Toowoomba from April 1938 to October 1939.

Datestamp:

Top inscription: .

Base inscription: .

Characteristics:

Earliest recorded date of this format: 12 April 1938.

Earliest recorded date of this format: 9 October 1940.

Number in the Census: 13.

Toowoomba
13 April 1938.

Townsville.

The SEND A TELEGRAM slogan was used at Townsville in 1937.

Datestamp: Circle (22 mm diameter).

Top inscription: LISMORE.

Base inscription: N.S.W. AUST.

Characteristics:
Die 4B: A is above the G.

Earliest recorded date of this format:
25 August 1933 (see Occleshaw).

Latest recorded date of this format:
22 November 1939.

Number in the Census: 13.

 Lismore
25 September 1937.

Warwick.

The SEND A TELEGRAM slogan was used at Warwick from January 1939 to October 1940.

Datestamp: Circle (22 mm diameter).

Top inscription: WARWICK.

Base inscription: QLD. AUST.

Characteristics:
Die 4B: A is above the G.

Earliest recorded date of this format:
4 January 1939.

Latest recorded date of this format:
9 October 1940.

Number in the Census: 4.

 Warwick
4 January 1939.