Home > 2010 Issue Summary > Fishes of the Reef
The ACCC approved Australia Post's proposal to increase domestic postal rates on 28 May, with new rates taking effect on 28 June 2010. An overview of the increases is given below.
Rate
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Current
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New
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Small letter rate within Australia (details)
Large letter rate (up to 125 grams) (details)
Large letter rate (over 125 up to 250 grams) (details)
Large letter rate (over 250 up to 500 grams) (details)
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55c $1.10 $1.65 $2.75
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60c $1.20 $1.80 $3.00
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New 5c and 60c stamps were released on 21 June, followed by the rest of the values on 28 June. The designs feature reef fish.
Issue Information
The stamps show fish species found in the tropical and sub-tropical waters off the coasts of Queensland and Western Australia.
Stamp Design:
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Simone Sakinofsky
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Printing Process:
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Lithography (more information)
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Stamp Size:
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5c, 60c, $1.20, $1.80 30 mm x 25 mm
$3.00 50 mm x 30 mm
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Designs:
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5c Coral Rabbitfish
60c Crown Triggerfish
60c Spotted Sweetlips
60c Golden Damsel
60c Regal Angelfish
$1.20 Saddle Butterflyfish
$1.80 Chevron Butterflyfish
$3.00 Orangefin Anemonefish
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Usage:
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5c Used to up-rate 55c stamps to 60c (details)
60c Small letter rate within Australia (details)
$1.20 Large letter rate within Australia (up to 125 grams) (details)
$1.80 Large letter rate within Australia (over 125 up to 250 grams) (details)
$3.00 Large letter rate within Australia (over 250 up to 500 grams) (details)
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Gummed Sheet Stamps
All sheet stamps were printed in a single pane of 50 stamps (5 x 10). To store the $3.00 pane post offices will have to fold the $3.00 sheet in half.
Sheet stamps
Self-adhesive Coil Stamps
As with past definitives coils of 100 and 200 stamps were released. Unusually, only Pemara printed the coils. Not only is the die-cutting of these stamps different, so is the phosphor tagging.
Coil stamps
Self-adhesive Booklet Stamps
The biggest surprise with the booklet stamps is the inclusion of a self-adhesive booklet of 20 5c stamps - the lowest ever face value for an Australian self-adhesive stamp! The perforations for the these stamps differ from the coil stamps, as does the phosphor tagging.
Booklet stamps
Self-adhesive Booklets
This issue featured three booklets - 5c x 20, 60c x 10 and 60c x 20. Booklets were distributed to post offices in chequebooks of 20 booklets. These are not listed on this website.
Booklet layouts
Booklet covers (Philatelic booklets)
Booklet covers (General booklets)
Postal Stationery
As with all new Australian issues each sheet stamp exists on a maximum card.
Maximum cards
Maximum Cards
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Size:
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146 mm x 104 mm (horizontal), 104 mm x 146 mm (vertical)
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Selling Price:
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$14.45 (set of 4)
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Stamp Imprint:
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Three bars (picture)
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Issue Summary
The table below summarises the above information. The cost of each item is given, along with a total for each section. In some cases the stamps are only available from self-adhesive booklets (sold at face value), or from prestige booklets, souvenir sheets or folders (sold above face value).
References
Australia Post, Draft Notification Change in Domestic Reserved Letter Pricing and other documents, July 2009-January 2010
Australia Post, New Postal Rates, accessed 9 June 2010
Australia Post, Australian Stamp Bulletin, No. 305, July-August 2010
If you have more information, or spot an error, please e-mail me.
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