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A postmark is an inked rubber stamp, with an imprint that indicates the date and place. A postal worker will press the postmark onto your letter to show the stamp has been used for postage. The date on the postmark records where and when the item enters the mail system.

Postmarks are just as unique and fascinating as stamps themselves. Take a look at some of our latest ones, and learn how to perfectly place postmark ink onto your collectable items.

  • Issue: Christmas 2020

    Issue date: 30 October 2020

  • Issue: Christmas Island Christmas 2020

    Issue date: 30 October 2020

  • Issue: 100th Running of the W. S. Cox Plate

    Issue date: 22 October 2020

  • Issue: World Heritage Australia

    Issue date: 20 October 2020

  • Issue: Cocos (Keeling) Islands: Currency of the Clunies-Ross Era

    Issue date: 20 October 2020

  • Issue: Australian National Botanic Gardens: 50 Years

    Issue date: 13 October 2020

  • Issue: Civil Aviation: 100 Years

    Issue date: 6 October 2020

  • Issue: AAT: RSV Nuyina

    Issue date: 11 September 2020

  • Issue: Water Tower Art

    Issue date: 7 September 2020

  • Issue: Norfolk Island: Peace in the Pacific

    Issue date: 1 September 2020

  • Issue: Opalised Fossils

    Issue date: 17 August 2020

  • Issue: Christmas Island Crabs

    Issue date: 17 August 2020

  • Issue: Princes Highway: 1920-2020

    Issue date: 11 August 2020

  • Issue: Wildflife Recovery

    Issue date: 4 August 2020

  • Issue: Australian Alps

    Issue date: 27 July 2020

  • Issue: Norfolk Island Ocean Oddities

    Issue date: 14 July 2020

  • Issue: 150th Anniversary of The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne

    Issue date: 7 July 2020

  • Issue: Mid-Century Fashion Focus

    Issue date: 16 June 2020

  • Issue: Art of the Desert

    Issue date: 9 June 2020

  • Issue: Norfolk Island: Norfolk Blue

    Issue date: 2 June 2020

  • Issue: Citizen Science

    Issue date: 19 May 2020

  • Issue: Cocos (Keeling) Islands: Booby Birds

    Issue date: 12 May 2020

  • Issue date: Navigating History: Endeavour Voyage 250 Years

    Issue date: 29 April 2020

  • Issue date: Bird Emblems

    Issue date: 21 April 2020

  • Issue: Australian Legends of Comedy

    Issue date: 15 April 2020

  • Issue: Anzac Day 2020

    Issue date: 14 April 2020

  • Issue: The Queen’s Birthday 2020

    Issue date: 7 April 2020

  • Issue: AAT: Wyatt Earp Expedition, 1948

  • Issue: Sports Stadiums part 2

    Issue date: 24 March 2020

  • Issue: Sydney–San Francisco Mail Steamer Service 150 Years

    Issue date: 3 March 2020

  • Issue: Medical Innovations

    Issue date: 18 February 2020

  • Issue: Transcontinental Railway – 50 Years

    Issue date: 11 February 2020

  • Issue: Word of Sport

    Issue date: 4 February 2020

  • Issue date: Tree-dwellers of the Tropics

    Issue date: 21 January 2020

  • Issue: Norfolk Island Early Botanic Art

    Issue date: 14 January 2020

  • Issue date: Christmas Island Year of the Rat 2020

    Issue date: 8 January 2020

  • Issue date: Joyful Occasions

    Issue date: 2 January 2020

  • First day of use: 1 April 2020
    Post Office: Grenfell NSW 2810
    Type: Permanent pictorial
    Postmark text: Birth Place of Henry Lawson 17th June 1867 | Grenfell NSW 2810
    Pictorial elements: Henry Lawson
    Postmark size: tbc

  • First day of use: 1 April 2020
    Post Office: Seymour VIC 3660
    Type: Permanent pictorial
    Postmark text: Seymour VIC 3660
    Pictorial elements: Railway station and locomotive
    Postmark size: tbc

  • First day of use: 11 March 2020
    Post Office: Armidale NSW 2350
    Type: Permanent pictorial
    Postmark text: Armidale NSW 2350
    Pictorial elements: Quill, books and graduate with mortarboard
    Postmark size: tbc

  • First day of use: 1 March 2020
    Post Office: Paddington NSW 2021
    Type: Permanent pictorial
    Postmark text: Victoria Barracks | Paddington N.S.W. 2021
    Pictorial elements: Victoria Barracks entrance arch
    Postmark size: tbc

  • First day of use: 1 March 2020
    Post Office: Cairns QLD 4870
    Type: Permanent pictorial
    Postmark text: First day of issue | Cairns QLD 4870
    Pictorial elements: Swordfish over waves
    Postmark size: tbc

  • First day of use: 1 March 2020
    Post Office: Cairns QLD 4870
    Type: First day of issue
    Postmark text: First day of issue | Cairns QLD 4870
    Pictorial elements: Swordfish over waves
    Postmark size: tbc

  • First day of use: 1 March 2020
    Post Office: Perth WA 6000
    Type: First day of issue
    Postmark text: First day of issue | GPO Perth WA 6000
    Pictorial elements: n/a
    Postmark size: 38mm diameter

  • First day of use: 1 March 2020
    Post Office: Perth WA 6000
    Type: Permanent pictorial
    Postmark text: Perth GPO WA 6000
    Pictorial elements: n/a
    Postmark size: 38mm diameter

  • First day of use: 1 March 2020
    Post Office: Coraki NSW 2471
    Type: Permanent pictorial
    Postmark text: Coraki NSW 2471
    Pictorial elements: Post office building line drawing and land
    Postmark size: tba

  • First day of use: 1 March 2020
    Post Office: Cleve SA 5640
    Type: Permanent pictorial
    Postmark text: Eyre Peninsula Field Days
    Pictorial elements: Antique hand plough in a ploughed field
    Postmark size: 38mm diameter

  • First day of use: 1 March 2020
    Post Office: Port Victoria SA 5573
    Type: Permanent pictorial
    Postmark text: The Last Winjammer Port - 1949
    Pictorial elements: Tall sailing ship under sail
    Postmark size: 38mm diameter

  • First day of use: 1 March 2020
    Post Office: Rappville NSW 2469
    Type: Permanent pictorial
    Postmark text: Rappville NSW 2469
    Pictorial elements: Bovine head and circular saw blade
    Postmark size: 38mm diameter

  • First day of use: 1 March 2020
    Post Office: Hamilton Island Qld 4803
    Type: Permanent pictorial
    Postmark text: Heart of the Reef
    Pictorial elements: Reef in a heart shape
    Postmark size: 38mm diameter

  • First day of use: 1 March 2020
    Post Office: Henty NSW 2658Cabramatta NSW 2166
    Type: Permanent pictorial
    Postmark text: Home of the header
    Pictorial elements: Header harvesting machine
    Postmark size: 38mm diameter

  • First day of use: 8 January 2020
    Post Office: Cabramatta NSW 2166
    Type: Temporary pictorial
    Postmark text: China Town | Year of the Rat | Cabramatta NSW 2166
    Pictorial elements: Rat's face and Chinese character

  • First day of use: 8 January 2020
    Post Office: Bourke St, Melbourne Vic 3000
    Type: Temporary pictorial
    Postmark text: China Town | Year of the Rat | Bourke St Melbourne Vic 3000
    Pictorial elements: Rat's face and Chinese character

  • First day of use: 8 January 2020
    Post Office: Haymarket NSW 2000 postmark
    Type: Temporary pictorial
    Postmark text: China Town | Year of the Rat | Haymarket NSW 2000 postmark
    Pictorial elements: Rat's face and Chinese character

  • First day of use: 1 January 2020
    Post Office: Foster Vic 3959
    Type: Temporary pictorial
    Postmark text: Heart of the Prom Country | 1870-2020 | Foster Vic 3960
    Pictorial elements: Icons

  • First day of use: 15 November 2019
    Post Office: Kingaroy Qld 4610
    Type: Permanent pictorial
    Postmark text: Kingaroy Qld 4610
    Pictorial elements: Tractor plowing

  • First day of use: 15 November 2019
    Post Office: Hawks Nest NSW 2324
    Type: Permanent pictorial
    Postmark text: Hawks Nest NSW 2324
    Pictorial elements: Scenic background with hawk hovering in the foreground

  • First day of use: 14 November 2019
    Post Office: Barmedman NSW 2668
    Type: Permanent pictorial
    Postmark text: Barmedman NSW 2668
    Pictorial elements: General store with dob sitting in the foreground

  • First day of use: 19 October 2019
    Post Office: Traralgon Vic 3844
    Type: Temporary pictorial
    Postmark text: Latrobe Valley PhilatelicSociety 70 Years
    Pictorial elements: Building

  • First day of use: 13 March 2020
    Show: Canberra Stamp Show 2020
    Type: Stamp Show temporary postmark
    Postmark text: Canberra Stampshow | 13 March 2020 | Mail Steamer Service 150 Years | Canberra ACT 2601
    Pictorial elements: Ship

  • First day of use: 14 March 2020
    Show: Canberra Stamp Show 2020
    Type: Stamp Show temporary postmark
    Postmark text: Canberra Stampshow | 14 March 2020 | Honeysuckle Creek | Canberra ACT 2601
    Pictorial elements: Satellite receiver

  • First day of use: 15 March 2020
    Show: Canberra Stamp Show 2020
    Type: Stamp Show temporary postmark
    Postmark text: Canberra Stampshow | 15 March 2020 | Transcontinental Railway 50 Years | Canberra ACT 2601
    Pictorial elements: Railway tracks

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