1968 Australia-Wide Postal Strike Melbourne Labels

Australia had an Australia-wide postal strike in 1968,these labels were sold in Melbourne so that private mail contractors could move the mail.
denominations were 6c,10c,25c,50c,and $1.00 in various colors.



I'm not sure on the Scott # numbers for these

Wow !!

Harry-

Did every large community, such as Melbourne, provide their own labels to enable private mail service?

Butch

Very nice. As I understand there should be more. there is a Modern Local Catalogue of Australia stamps, but it seems to be hard to come by. I've unsuccessfully bid on it on ebay. Canada & the UK also had strike post like these as did the USA.

Yes Butch Melbourne use them to try and break the strike,I haven't got the catalogue with the different issues so I'm not sure how many more there are or where there from,I'm slowly building my library and that will definitely be one of the books I'll stock Warrehouse.

Those are very nice. Did they produce many of them?

Great to hear that you'll get that catalogue, Nuggethill

Mike

That's if I find one mate

To the best of my knowledge, these are the only 1968 labels available, and they're always highly sought after. Very nice.

Thanks Jubilee I wasn't to sure if they had produced any more.

Further Info

These labels were issued during an Australia-wide mail strike by the Melbourne firm
of H A Bachrach which organised a system of transporting mail and parcels from a
central Melbourne depot to various suburban post offices (whose delivery
arrangements were not affected by the strike in its initial stages). The emergency
stickers had to be affixed to letters and parcels in addition to normal postage Delivery
arrangements were carried out by Save Time Services of Flinders Lane Melbourne
The service was conducted only on January 18 and 19 when it became inoperable due
to suburban delivery men joining the strike


There are 5 value tablets

S10=6c red
S11=10c green
S12=25c slate
S13=50c brown
S14=$1 blue

Values in 1975 were resp: 30c-40c-60c-$1.00-$2 for mint
acknowledgement The Australasian stamp catalogue 1975
Published by Stamp Publications P/L
Dubbo NSW

HTH

Thanks Rod for the very useful information

and congratulations on reaching your pillardom

Onya Nuggethill, I'll join you in the popcorn.

you "double pillar" you

We can celebrate together