Queensland - Interim period: 1901-1917.
Ordinary rate delivery form: QI-DO-2.

  
General characteristics:

Heading and notes: Form 148 with variations in text.
Standard interim period heading.
Message area: Blank.
Reverse side: Blank.
Colours (text & form): Blue on cream.
Size of form overall: 172 × 215 mm (except for the smaller DO-1A).
Size of datestamp box: 30 × 29 mm.
Distinctive characteristics of this form:

Queensland was unique in that the postal administration did not issue a format of the type used previously during the Colonial period but reprinted with a C of A heading.

QI-DO-1 QI-DO-1A.
Dalby to Fortitude Valley
(12 July 1910).

Characteristics:

  • has 2 lines of vertical text at the left;
  • date stamp is attached to the horizontal line and has only three sides;
  • has "[Form 142." in TRC;
  • size is 144 × 203 mm.

 
QI-DO-2 QI-DO-1B.
Longreach to Brisbane
(Telegraph Branch/G.P.O.
27 January 1911).

Characteristics:

  • side text removed - and no reference to "figures at the bottom ...";
  • date stamp box is now a 4 sided rectangle
    30 × 29 mm);
  • has "[Form 142.";
  • size is 172 × 215 mm.

These characteristics continued in the following formats except where noted.
QI-DO-3 QI-DO-1C.
Melbourne to Brisbane
(Telegraph Branch
19 March 1915).

Characteristics:

  • has "[Form No. Q.142.";
QI-DE-Cole

AE-EO-1 Qld.

Delivery envelope accompanying the Russell Cole telegram from his Mother
(19 March 1915).

For more information on this envelope, follow the hyperlink above.
QI-DO-4 QI-DO-1D.
Sydney to Brisbane
(Telegraph Branch
9 June 1918).

Characteristics:

  • printed on brown paper (possibly as an emergency before new
    C of A forms became available);
  • has "[Form No. Q.142.";

 

Details of use and rarity.

Form
sub-number		 Schedule number Earliest recorded date Rarity rating
DO-2A None. 12 July 1910 at Fortitude Valley. NC
DO-2B None. 27 January 1911 at Telegraph Branch, Brisbane. NC
DO-2C None. 19 March 1915 at Telegraph Branch, Brisbane. NC
DO-2D None. 8 August 1916. NC