Australia - Brown years: 1922-1939.
Urgent rate delivery envelope: AB-EU-3.

  
General characteristics:

Heading and notes: No form number.
URGENT TELEGRAM across top of envelope.
Message area: Blank with two slogans.
Reverse side: Two slogans.
Colours (text & envelope): Black on deep pink.
Size of envelope overall: 88 × 145 mm.
Distinctive characteristics of this form:
 Under the influence of Brown, slogans were added to delivery and transmission forms in 1929. As this format for an urgent rate delivery envelope is not elsewhere recorded, it is assumed that it was printed in 1929 (or at least by 1932). The advertisements, especially on the reverse side and on the flap, also match closely to the ordinary rate delivery envelopes published in the early 1930s (AB-EO-3 and AB-EO-4).

The only known used example was clearly used well beyond its date of issue.

AB-EU-3A AB-EU-3A.

Used opaque delivery envelope.
Everton Park, Queensland.
23 January 1943.

Characteristics:

  • has two slogans front and back which vary in their focus.

This envelope is the only used example recorded to date.

It contains a delivery form (AW-DO-9B) confirming it was used significantly out of date.
AB-EU-3A rev AB-EU-3A (reverse).

Reverse side of the delivery envelope showing the two slogans.
AB-EU-3B AB-EU-3A (front).

Alternative combination of slogans on front of envelope but the same basic format.
AB-EU-3B rev AB-EU-3A (reverse).

Alternative combination of slogans on the reverse side of the above envelope but the same basic format.

 

Details of use and rarity.

Form
sub-number		 Schedule number Earliest recorded date Rarity rating
EU-3A None 23 January 1943 at Everton Park, Qld. RR