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Today I found myself in Port Chalmers (about 15 km from Dunedin) for my work, and took a few minutes to have a look at the local museum, which is housed in the old post office. In a glass case at the front of the museum are various bits of the building's own history, including what looks like an old New Zealand Post Office flag, my guess would be from the late 1950s or early 1960s.
Unfortunately, the flag is overlaid with other items, such as postal uniforms of the same time, and there was no label on the case. Also I didn't have enough time to enquire about it at the museum's office.
The flag appears to be a standard blue, presumably either blue
ensign with the Union Jack in the corner or, more likely, (as is the case
with the NZ fire service flag) with the New
Zealand flag in the corner. The words POST OFFICE are written in
white across the bottom, and the old Post Office arms is in the
central fly in black and white. There is a bare hint that it may have
had some colour in it originally - the crown looks as though it may
have been red and gold, and the lettering around the edge also shows
very faint coloration.
James Dignan, 4 November 2006
When I first arrived in NZ in the early 1970s, the NZ Post Office
had a flag which was blue with the then NZ Post Office emblem in white in
the middle and the words “New Zealand” above it and “Post Office”
below.
Michael Sykes, 23 July 2009
Wikipedia shows an image described as a flag for New Zealand Post.
Valentin Poposki, 23 September 2006
Well, that's definitely their logo - and it's usually seen in those
colours when presented as such, or in white on plain red. I don't
recall having seen it as a flag, though.
James Dignan, 24 September 2006
The previous flag was replaced in the late 70s with a flag of the new NZPO emblem in red,
white and blue, being a stylised 'NZ' reminiscent of the back of an envelope.
It in turn was removed from flag poles outside every post office only a
couple of years later when the National Party Minister of Posts and
Telecommunications of the time decided that more patriotism was needed in
the country and ordered that every post office fly only the NZ Flag. There
hasn't been a post office flag since then, and subsequently the postal
service was 'corporatized' in the late 1980s, changing from a government
department into a profit-oriented state-owned enterprise.
Michael Sykes, 23 July 2009
