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Australia Post provides reliable and affordable postal, retail, financial, and tourism services.

The history of Australia Post can be traced back to 1809, when Isaac Nichols, a former criminal, was appointed as the Postmaster General of New South Wales. He used his home as a base to sort mail collected from sailboats arriving at Sydney Harbour.

Not long after, Nichols opened the first official post office on George Street in Sydney.

In the early days, the first group of postal workers in Australia faced numerous difficulties and obstacles in order to successfully deliver letters and receive replies. At first, they could only ride horses to shuttle around, but later switched to driving horse drawn carriages, making great contributions to the construction of a land route connecting the Australian Federation born in 1901. As time goes by, postal services keep pace with the times, gradually replacing horsepower with trains, motor vehicles, and even airplanes to achieve mail delivery and maintain close connections across Australia.

More than two centuries have passed in a blink of an eye, and today Australia Post still upholds its original social mission and firm commitment, dedicated to connecting people, businesses, and communities with each other. This is precisely the original intention of Nichols when he started his career by organizing his own mail. The core concept of helping people maintain close connections has never changed and has always been the mission upheld by Australia Post.