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Just moved into a rural property which had no mailbox. I took awhile to put up a mailbox and know a number of letters were returned to sender as the postie had no way of delivering the letters.(The house is 700 metres along a track from the road) I rang customer information and found that normal letters without a return to sender address are sheddered. Parcels and large letters are kept awhile prior to being auctioned for charity.

I had hoped that the letters may have been kept a couple of months but that is not the case.

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Collecting predecimal Australian Used Blocks.

Oh Dear,
I am thinking of ALL the letters with stamps in, that went through the shredder

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Nunawading Stamp Fair
Last Sunday of Every Month - Jaycees Hall Silver Grove - Nunawading.

It would be disapointing ... I guess with no idea of where to deliver, and no sender address on back of envelope, there is nothing they can do with them, except for binning or shredding them.

Hope you didn't lose too many stamps.

Would love to attend one of the charity auctions for unclaimed parcels, large letters etc - There would be some pretty interesting stuff amongst it all.

I think Abbey Auctions in Box Hill Melbourne do them every year or so,

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Nunawading Stamp Fair
Last Sunday of Every Month - Jaycees Hall Silver Grove - Nunawading.

I think you'll find that the Australian dead letter office has the power to open mail and see if there is an address on the inside to return to sender.

If not then a powerful light shone thorugh the envelope can reveal a return address without opening it!

Proof:

viewtopic.php?f=13&t=18174&hilit=dead+letter+office



Anyone who sends out mail without putting a return address somewhere on the envelope is a twit, or couldn't care less if it got delivered or not.

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Greg - Looking for Goulburn Australia Cancels and Grangemouth Scotland Cancels and Covers
Member of the S.T.A.M.P Club for Slightly Twisted And Mad Philatelists - Motto: "Bring back the lick!"