1. Pitcairn Island: Post Office and Community How the Pitcairn Island Post Office has Delivered for Pitcairn! Post Office and Community How the Pitcairn Island Post Office has Delivered for Pitcairn!

2. Post Office Origins - Informal w/Dubious Delivery Petch - 1904 1855 Pitcairn to Brighton via Chile & Panama 1922 Pitcairn to Bliss

3. Post Office Origins - Informal, but More Regular Gerald Bliss - early 1920s (Free, but you get what you pay for) About 1923 Pitcairn to Boston 1925 Pitcairn to London

4. Post Office Origins - Formal, but Not Free NZ Agency - 1927-1940 1939 Pitcairn to Chicago

5. Post Office Origins - Birth of the Pitcairn PO Neill - 1937 (and end of NZ Agency) 1930s No Stamps Available “Resurrection”

6. Post Office Established - 1940 Definitives Maude & Fuller - 1940

7. Post Office Established - 1940 Definitives

14. Selling It!!!

15. Post Office Established - 1940 First Day Islander usage of Pitcairn stamps October 15, 1940 Stella Young to son in NZ

16. Post Office as Profit Center - 1949 RSW Issue

17. Post Office as Profit Center - Govt Finances Neill - 1951 Treasury - £45,000 (<£100 before PO) Annual Budget - £5,500 But, 93% of government revenue comes from stamp sales.

18. PO as Communications Facilitator - Diaspora 1953 - Floyd to Ben Christian on Norfolk

19. PO as Communications Facilitator - Advertising

20. PO as Communications Facilitator - Newsletters Miscellany 1977 - Miscellany shipment to Wilf (Airmail & Registered!)

21. PO as Communications Facilitator - Relay Point 1947 - Merchant sailor to 94th Street in Manhattan

22. PO as Communications Facilitator - Relay Point 1961 - Ship passenger to England

23. PO as Communications Facilitator - Telegram

24. PO as Commerce Facilitator - Money Transfer

25. PO as Commerce Facilitator - Parcel Post

27. 1990 - Parcel Bill to Auckland PO

28. PO as Commerce Facilitator - Parcel Post 2006 - Banana shipment to Marcia ($45.50 postage)

29. PO as Commerce Facilitator - Parcel Post Pitcairn Parcel Rates to Other Countries Since Decimalization (1967 - 2003)

30. Post Office and Crown - Royal Portrait / Cipher

31. Post Office and Intl Organizations - UPU

32. Post Office as Family Glue - Jail Mail 2007 Randy to Nadine

33. Post Office and Community - Conclusions Over the past 70+ years of the Pitcairn Post Office has helped Pitcairn to: Fund its modernization / infrastructure Market / publicize the island Bind the diaspora to the home island Facilitate a craft and food export business Continue on-island family relationships Bind the country to the British Crown and the UK / EC Establish Pitcairn as a country (though not an independent country) How can the Pitcairn Post Office help in the future: Continued funding source (although at a lower level) Continued facilitator of exports (at lower level, unless...) Market and serve tourism Support sea-bed mining (on-island services to miners)