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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

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