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The GPO

The main Post Office in Australia's capital cities has always been known as the General Post Office or GPO and I guess in days now long gone it was quite prestigious to own a GPO Box number (see next photo) to put on your letterhead and receive mail to. As communications have changed out of sight, delivery of letters is now a dying and loss making business.

This is Brisbane's GPO and it still operates as such although downsized internally considerably. It's a classic heritage building and befitting a sub-tropical city suitably surrounded by Palm Trees in Queen Street looking behind me through Post Office Square and ANZAC Square to Central Station. The impact of COVID with working from home and less city office space being used by large corporations has also impacted the volume of business being conducted here.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Post_Office,_Brisbane

Taken on: April 10, 2023

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