Tasmanian Archival Documents

Tasmanian Postal Guides

A number of Tasmanian Postal Guides are available for download. These were issued twice per year from the early 1890s and contain full details of contemporary Postal, Telegraph and Money Order services.
To date the Tasmanian Postal Guides we have span 1894 to 1909 with some gaps.
The Tasmanian Postal Guides include details of Postal and Stamp Duty Acts, postal rates, new routes, Post Office openings and closings for the year, Money Order and Telegraph services, related services and more. A careful reading of the guides will provide much useful information for those researching the postal and related services of the period.
NOTE: the files are quite large and will take some time to open and download

Postmaster Payment Records

We also have downloadable photocopies of Post Office payment records These include quarterly payments to Postmasters and in some cases, Mail contractors. The records commence from 1836 well into the later 19th Century.

While these can be quite faint and the handwriting difficult to read, they are a valuable source of information about various aspects of the early Post Office in VDL and Tasmania.

We will be up-loading these progressively over time. See below for downloadable PDFs.