Australia - various periods: 1917-1988.
Telegram delivery docket: AB-AD-1.

  
General characteristics:

Heading and notes: Form number 66a or 66A.
Heading is
TELEGRAM DELIVERY ADVICE.
Message area: Lined.
Reverse side: Blank.
Colours (text & form): Black on cream.
Size of form overall: 101 × 165 mm.
Distinctive characteristics of this form:
 These forms were used to inform a person who had sent a telegram that the recipient had received the telegram.
AD-1APrinted in August 1955.

AB-AD-1A.

Unused Telegram Delivery Advice form.

Characteristics:

  • both lines of the heading are underlined;
  • Superintendent of Telegraphs is one option for the responsible officer;
AD-1BPrinted in 1966.

AB-AD-1B.

Unused Telegram Delivery Advice form.

Characteristics:

  • no underlining;
  • Traffic Officer-in-Charge is one option for the responsible officer;

 

AD-1C is identical to AD-1B except the font for the form number is T.G. 66A and the schedule number has been moved to the lower left corner.

Details of use and rarity.

Form
sub-number		 Schedule number Earliest recorded date Rarity rating
AB-AD-1A Sch. C. 7363 - 8/55   NC
AB-AD-1B O/N. C. 3435/66   NC
AB-AD-1C O/N C4254/72   NC