44-656: Wentworth Falls ( postcode : 2782) is a town in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales , situated approximately 100 kilometres (62 mi) west of the Sydney central business district , and about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) east of Katoomba , Australia on the Great Western Highway , with a Wentworth Falls railway station on the Main Western line . The town is at an elevation of 867 metres (2,844 ft) AHD . At
88-694: A Large Volume Receiver (LVR), e.g. the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital has the postcode 4029, the Australian National University had the postcode 0200. More postcode ranges were made available for LVRs in the 1990s. Australia Post has been progressively discontinuing the LVR programme since 2006. Some places in Australia do not have postcodes. These are typically remote areas with little or no population. The first one or two numerals usually show
132-579: A number of localities across WA, SA and NT. Three locations (Mingoola, Mungindi and Texas ) straddle the NSW-Queensland border (so same town name and postcode on both sides). Jervis Bay Territory is located on the coast of NSW. It is just south of the towns of Vincentia and Huskisson, with which it shares a postcode. Mail to the Jervis Bay Territory is addressed to the ACT. The numerals used to show
176-560: A sorting number which is printed on the letter as an orange-coloured barcode . This number might be 12 digits long. This system enables the post office to place items in delivery order. Companies can also use Rapid Addressing Tool (RATS) to print Customer Addressed Barcodes, which are printed above the address. Every Delivery Point in Australia (DPID) has its own number. Barcode sorter machines sort and sequence letters up to C5 size. Flat multi-level OCR reads, imprints and sorts C5 to A3 sized articles. Lake Burragorang Lake Burragorang
220-527: Is South Australia. By 1968, 75% of mail was using postcodes, and in the same year post office preferred-size envelopes were introduced, which came to be referred to as "standard envelopes". Postcode squares were introduced in June 1990 to enable Australia Post to use optical character recognition (OCR) software in its mail sorting machines to automatically and more quickly sort mail by postcodes. Australian postcodes consist of four digits, and are written after
264-705: Is a man-made reservoir in the lower Blue Mountains of New South Wales , Australia , serving as a major water supply for greater metropolitan Sydney . The dam impounding the lake, the Warragamba Dam , is located approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi) southwest of the Sydney central business district . Lake Burragorang is within the World Heritage Site of the Greater Blue Mountains Area . The 2,031-gigalitre (4.47 × 10 imp gal; 5.37 × 10 US gal) reservoir collects water from
308-569: Is a popular venue for local community events and theatre productions and also houses the local library. Another landmark is Yester Grange , a heritage-listed home in Yester Street. A sprawling timber bungalow with extensive verandas, Yester Grange had a number of owners over the years but eventually became a function centre. There are many natural lookouts in the area including Lincoln's Rock, Breakfast Point Lookout, Princes Rock Lookout, Wentworth Falls Lookout and Rocket Point Lookout. A track through
352-461: Is allowed on fire trail W4 from Sheahys Creek to Yerranderie. A hydroelectric power station at Warragamba Dam begins operating once the level in the reservoir reaches to within 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) of full capacity. Its output is 50 megawatts (67,000 hp). A long drought lasting 14 years resulted in the dam water level being insufficient for it to operate from 1998 to 2012. In 2016, late 2020 and each subsequent year, it has operated as
396-521: Is an inherent problem with spatial representation of postcodes since areas referenced to a specific postal code tend to change over time, as new postcodes are added or existing ones are split by Australia Post for operational purposes. Some mail generating software can automatically sort outward mail by postcode before it is generated. This pre-sort of mail into postcode order eliminates the need for it to be sorted manually or using mail sorting machines . To improve mechanised sorting, each address now has
440-664: Is intended for a specific identity within an organisation, their identity can be prepended on the line above the business name, with c/- prepended to the business name. If addressing a letter from outside Australia, the postcode is recorded before 'Australia', which is placed on a fourth line. Australian postcodes are sorting information. They are often linked with one area (e.g. 6160 belongs only to Fremantle, Western Australia ). Due to postcode rationalisation, they can be quite complex, especially in country areas (e.g. 2570 belongs to twenty-two towns and suburbs around Camden, New South Wales ). The south-western Victoria 3221 postcode of
484-704: The 2016 census , Wentworth Falls had a population of 6,076. Wentworth Falls hosts several festivals and events, including the Wentworth Falls Autumn Festival in April, the Wentworth Falls Public School Art and Craft Show in October and the Task Force 72 Annual Regatta in either November or December. Wentworth Falls is home to WFCC or Wentworth Falls Cricket Club. Established in 1892 it is one of
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#1732845175787528-629: The Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions share a postcode with the isolated sub-Antarctic island of Macquarie Island (part of Tasmania): There is also a "special" postcode for routing mail sent to Santa: Each state's capital city ends with three zeroes, while territorial capital cities end with two zeroes. Capital city postcodes were the lowest postcodes in their state or territory range, before new ranges for LVRs and PO Boxes were made available. The last numeral can usually be changed from "0" to "1" to get
572-581: The Australian National University (now 2601) to 9944 for Cannonvale , Queensland. Some towns and suburbs have two postcodes — one for street deliveries and another for post office boxes . For example, a street address in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta would be written like this: But mail sent to a PO Box in Parramatta would be addressed: Many large businesses, government departments and other institutions receiving high volumes of mail had their own postcode as
616-532: The Geelong Mail Centre also includes twenty places around Geelong with very few people. This means that mail for these places is not fully sorted until it gets to Geelong. Some postcodes cover large populations (e.g., postcode 4350 serving some 100,000 people in Toowoomba and the surrounding area), while other postcodes have much smaller populations, even in urban areas. Australian postcodes range from 0200 for
660-595: The NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service , and serves as a starting point for several of these walks. Postcodes in Australia Postcodes in Australia are used to more efficiently sort and route mail within the Australian postal system. Postcodes in Australia have four digits and are placed at the end of the Australian address, before the country. Postcodes were introduced in Australia in 1967 by
704-540: The Postmaster-General's Department (PMG) to replace earlier postal sorting systems, such as Melbourne's letter and number codes (e.g., N3 , E5 ) and a similar system then used in rural and regional New South Wales . The introduction of the postcodes coincided with the introduction of a large-scale mechanical mail sorting system in Australia, starting with the Sydney GPO . The first digit for each state's postcode
748-572: The Postmaster-General's Department and are now managed by Australia Post , Australia's national postal service. Postcodes are published in booklets available from post offices or online from the Australia Post website. Australian envelopes and postcards often have four square boxes printed in orange at the bottom right for the postcode. These are used to assist with the automated sorting of mail that has been addressed by hand for Australian delivery. Postcodes were introduced in Australia in 1967 by
792-741: The Blue Mountains' longest serving cricket clubs. Kings Tableland , a plateau located at the south-east corner of Wentworth Falls, contains areas of major archaeological importance, including the Kings Tableland Aboriginal Site. This area is highly significant to the Gandangara , Darug and Wiradjuri people. Used as a gathering place for at least 22,000 years, the area contains a variety of cultural features, including engravings, axe-grinding grooves, modified rock pools and an occupation shelter. Originally called The Weatherboard after
836-491: The Blue Mountains, is eight kilometres further east along Murphys Fire Trail. Further south along Kings Tableland are Sunset Lookout and McMahon's Lookout, both of which provide long views over Lake Burragorang . These roads went into the Burragorang Valley prior to the valley's flooding by Warragamba Dam. Other points of interest and local institutions include the historic Grand View Hotel, the historic house Glen Isla ,
880-608: The Gundungarra nation, an indigenous tribe that called the Burragorang valley, along with the Blue Mountains and Megalong Valley, their tribal land. A number of farming towns (including the town of Burragorang) and coal mines were located in the area. All of these are now underwater. Construction of Warragamba dam commenced in 1948 and was completed in 1960. The reservoir's usable capacity is 2,027 gigalitres (4.46 × 10 imp gal; 5.35 × 10 US gal). Prior to April 2006,
924-670: The Valley of the Waters leads to Empress Falls, Sylvia Falls, Lodore Falls, Flat Rock Falls and, near the junction of Jamison and Valley of the Waters Creeks, the sheltered Vera Falls via an unmarked offbranching track, 1.9 kilometres (1.2 mi), from the Conservation Hut at the start of the walk. Empress Falls is one of the most popular beginner commercial canyoning trips in the Blue Mountains, and canyoners can be seen abseiling Empress Falls from
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#1732845175787968-613: The Wentworth Falls School of Arts, Falls Gallery, located on Falls Road close to the Falls themselves, showing some of the major contemporary Australian artists. The Kedumba Gallery (found within the grounds of the Blue Mountains Grammar School ) and Wentworth Falls Lake, an artificial lake created early in the 20th century to provide water for steam locomotives. This is now a reserve and recreation area. The School of Arts
1012-408: The area for some time until they were culled by National Parks rangers. This area is also home to the site of the former Queen Victoria Sanitorium, once a major facility for the treatment of tuberculosis . Ownership of the site has shifted between Government and various private interests over the decades since it was closed in the 1980s. Sporadic development proposals for the former hospital have been
1056-509: The converged flows of the Coxs , Kowmung , Nattai , Wingecarribee , Wollondilly , and Warragamba rivers and their associated tributaries , all within the Nepean and Hawkesbury River catchment. Before the construction of the dam, Burragorang Valley had been inhabited by white settlers since the 19th century, and for thousands of years before, the Burragorang valley was part of the tribal lands of
1100-481: The cost of car and house insurance. Transport for NSW uses postcodes to give specific numbers for each bus stop in Greater Sydney . The stop number is five to seven numbers: the first four are the postcode, and the others show the bus stop (sometimes written with a space in between, e.g. "2000 108"). Many companies that produce metropolitan street maps also list the postcodes for each suburb, both in indexes and on
1144-592: The drinking water catchment areas, is under consideration. In the first week of December 2019, the water catchment area experienced large bush fires , during a widespread and extreme fire season in Eastern Australia. Lake Burragorang is surrounded by a 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) wide exclusion zone to protect the integrity of the water supply; access into this zone is restricted. There are two access corridors for bushwalkers: Coxs River to Mount Cookem, and Belloon Pass to Yerranderie . Limited public vehicle access
1188-512: The first time it had done so in fourteen years. This is consistent with increasingly extreme weather events, where longer periods of drought and reduced total rainfall, is expected to be punctuated with shorter, heavier and more sporadic downfalls events. In November 2019, government proposed a $ 700 million plan to raise the height of the dam by 14 metres. The purpose is stated as providing flood mitigation for downstream land. Critics have alleged it may be to allow rezoning of prime agricultural in
1232-440: The flood zone, to residential property for commercial developers. Increasing the capacity would result in flooding large areas of native wildlife habitat, in a relatively protected water catchment area. It would also flood large areas of native vegetation, that provides a substantial carbon dioxide sink , without proposal for replacement. The announcement was made while an application for concessions to extend mining operations inside
1276-404: The maps themselves. Spatial representation of postcodes is also very popular in defining sales and franchise territories. Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Taxation Office and many other Federal and State government organisations publish a variety of statistics by postcode which extends the use Australia Post four digit code to many business and social planning related activities. There
1320-411: The men that headed the exploration to cross the mountains in 1813 and a friend of John Jamison. On the north side of the town is Pitt Park. The Bathurst Traveller, later renamed Weatherboard Inn, was built here in 1826. Charles Darwin was reported to have stayed there in 1836, walking from the inn along Jamison Creek to the cliff's edge, about which he wrote ‘an immense gulf unexpectedly opens through
1364-400: The name of the city, suburb, or town, and the state or territory: Recipient Name 100 Citizen Road BLACKTOWN NSW 2148 When writing an address by hand, and a row of four boxes is pre-printed on the lower right-hand corner of an envelope, the postcode may be written in the boxes instead. When posting to an organisation, business names can be written instead of a recipient name. If an article
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1408-580: The postcode 2750 and Petrie, Queensland has the postcode 4502. Within each region with the same second numeral, postcodes are usually allocated in ascending order the further one travels from the state's capital city along major highways and railways. For instance, heading north on the North Coast railway in New South Wales away from Sydney: Major towns and cities tend to have "0" as the last numeral or last two numerals, e.g. Rockhampton, Queensland has
1452-915: The postcode 4700 and Ballarat, Victoria has the postcode 3350. There are exceptions; the major town of Ipswich, Queensland has the postcode 4305, while Goodna , a relatively small suburb of Ipswich, is allocated 4300. Australia Post prefers envelopes sold in Australia to have four boxes in the bottom right corner of the front of the envelope. Entering the postcode in these boxes or squares, which Australia Post calls postcode squares , enables Australia Post to use optical character recognition software in its mail sorting machines to automatically and more quickly sort mail into postcodes, which also embeds routing information. Postcode squares were introduced in June 1990. Australia Post says that postcode squares should not be used for machine-addressed mail, or mail going overseas. Many other organisations now use postcodes. Insurance companies often use postcodes when working out
1496-425: The postcode for General Post Office boxes in any capital city (though Perth now uses a different range of postcodes for its GPO Boxes): While the first numeral of a postcode usually shows the state or territory, the second numeral usually shows a region within the state. However, postcodes with the same second numeral are not always next to each other. As an example, postcodes in the range 2200–2299 are split between
1540-607: The reservoir has become seriously depleted. On 8 February 2007 the lake recorded an all-time low of 32.5% of capacity, although by late 2008 the water level had returned to 60% of capacity. To reduce the likelihood of a water supply failure, the NSW Government authorised the construction and operation of the Sydney Desalination Plant to augment Sydney's water supply. The dam reached maximum capacity and spilled in March 2012,
1584-540: The source of some local concern. Wentworth Falls has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: The Literary Institute at 217 Great Western Highway, Wentworth Falls, was designed in 1915 by architect Herbert Dennis and is now known as the Library and School of Arts. According to the 2016 census of Population, there were 6,076 people in Wentworth Falls. Ingar Camp Ground , one of the most scenic picnic grounds in
1628-593: The southern suburbs of Sydney and the Central Coast , Lake Macquarie and Newcastle regions of New South Wales. Postcodes with a second numeral of "0" or "1" are almost always located within the metropolitan area of the state's capital city. Postcodes with higher second numerals are usually located in rural and regional areas. Common exceptions are where towns were rural when postcodes were first introduced in 1967, but have since been suburbanised and incorporated into metropolitan areas, e.g. Penrith, New South Wales has
1672-589: The state on each radio callsign in Australia are the same numeral as the first numeral for postcodes in that state, e.g. 2xx in New South Wales, 3xx in Victoria, etc. Radio callsigns pre-date postcodes in Australia by more than forty years. Australia's external territories are also included in Australia Post's postcode system. While these territories do not belong to any state, they are addressed as such for mail sorting: Three scientific bases in Antarctica operated by
1716-445: The state or territory that the postcode belongs to Sometimes near the state and territory borders, Australia Post finds it easier to send mail through a nearby post office that is across the border: Some of the postcodes above may cover two or more states. For example, postcode 2620 covers both a locality in NSW ( Gundaroo ) as well as a locality in the ACT ( Hume ), and postcode 0872 covers
1760-475: The tourist track One of the most popular walks in the area, the National Pass, skirts the top edge of the Valley of the Waters, along a narrow clay stone ledge perched halfway down the cliff, and then ascends the ridge via a series of sandstone steps built by Peter Mulheran and a group known as "The Irish Brigade" in 1908. The Conservation Hut is an information centre and restaurant in Wentworth Falls leased from
1804-586: The trees, with a depth of perhaps 1,500 feet’. The route he took was formally opened as the Charles Darwin Walk in 1986 and leads from Wilson Park opposite the School of Arts building to the northern escarpment of the Jamison Valley. The Kings Tableland area also once hosted a deer park that closed down in the late 1980s, with the site subsequently falling into private ownership. Several deer were sighted around
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1848-656: The usable capacity was 1,857 gigalitres (4.08 × 10 imp gal; 4.91 × 10 US gal), before the Deep Water Storage Recovery project was completed. There are fears, however, that population pressures may stretch the reservoir's ability to furnish Sydney residents with needed water well into the 21st century. The city's population is rising by about 50,000 every year . Water restrictions (limited usage purposes and times), were imposed late in 2003 and are reapplied during serious droughts , which are expected to become more frequent. There have been times when
1892-478: The ‘Weatherboard Inn’ built in 1814, a year later the town was named Jamison’s Valley by Governor Lachlan Macquarie in honour of the colony's leading private citizen, Sir John Jamison . In July 1867, the first railway journey to the Blue Mountains left Penrith and traveled through to Weatherboard Station, where the train terminated. In 1879, the village took its name from a nearby system of waterfalls, which in turn were named for William Charles Wentworth , one of
1936-405: Was copied directly from Australian radio call signs . Over time, digits beyond this set have come to be used for PO Boxes etc., for example the 8000 series refers to special addresses in Victoria. It is sometimes stated that the numbering was based on the (now retired) Australian Military Administrative Districts, however this is incorrect. For example, in that numbering scheme Queensland is 1, and 4
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