2009 $1 Australia Post 200 Years - Letterbox Coin & Stamp Cover PNC RAM

2009 $1 Australia Post 200 Years - Letterbox Coin and Stamp Cover PNCThe nineteenth-century posting box featured on the coin is located in the Melbourne suburb of Newport, and is still in use. It is typical of the post boxes found throughout many towns in Australia.Made of cast-iron these post boxes were made to last.  Prior to the advent of the first cast-iron posting boxes in Sydney in 1856, the public handed in letters at a post office or to a postman on his delivery round. Today, there are nearly 16,000 posting boxes on streets throughout Australia - a figure that over our early pioneers could never, in their most optimistic dreams, have imagined.Postmarked First Day of Issue 26 June 2009, Sydney NSW 2000.