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24-763: Kincumber is a south-eastern suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales , Australia, nested between the Kincumba Mountain Reserve and the Kincumber Broadwater and located 87 kilometres (54 mi) north of Sydney via the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway (F3). It is part of the Central Coast Council local government area . It is on Guringgai land A nature reserve, Kincumba Mountain,

48-402: Is identified by its PIN. Post offices coming under Department of Posts, Ministry of Communication, Government of India have a history of one hundred fifty years. Private courier and delivery services often have offices as well, although these are usually not called "post offices", except in the case of Germany , which has fully privatised its national postal system . As abbreviation PO

72-464: Is instead known as a sorting office or delivery office, which may have a large central area known as a sorting or postal hall. Integrated facilities combining mail processing with railway stations or airports are known as mail exchanges. In India , post offices are found in almost every village having panchayat (a "village council"), towns, cities, and throughout the geographical area of India. India's postal system changed its name to India Post after

96-604: Is located within the suburb and is often used by the community for various functions, including picnicking , bush-walking , orienteering , parties , and carnivals . Kincumber is also a skateboarding hub of the Central Coast. It has two skate facilities, one in Frost Reserve and the other in South Kincumber recreation area. The name derives from the local Aboriginal word "kincumba", meaning "towards

120-417: Is now abandoned but still has higher than average levels of radiation and has been deemed unsafe for development. During road widening along Empire Bay Drive a radiological survey was conducted. Generally, the dose rates measured were well below the threshold of 0.7  μSv /h and indicate that the area had been remediated to a reasonable level, with a peak dose rate of 0.82 μSv/h being the only outlyer of

144-433: Is used, together with GPO for General Post Office and LPO for Licensed Post Office. There is evidence of corps of royal couriers disseminating the decrees of Egyptian pharaohs as early as 2400   BCE, and it is possible that the service greatly precedes that date. Similarly, there may be ancient organised systems of post houses providing mounted courier service, although sources vary as to precisely who initiated

168-585: The 2016 census there were 7,093 people in Kincumber. As of January 2020, Kincumber has a high school , primary school , hotel , shopping centre , library , several restaurants , fast food outlets and a licensed post office . At a federal level, Kincumber is within the Division of Robertson . Previously held on a safe margin by Jim Lloyd of the Liberal Party, the seat changed hands in

192-483: The Central Coast region of New South Wales , Australia . Suburbs are listed here if they are in the Central Coast region and are listed on the Geographical Names Register as suburbs. The area is formed by the boundaries of Central Coast Council , which was a product of the merger of City of Gosford and Wyong Shire in 2016. Post office Before the advent of postal codes and

216-552: The Holy Roman Empire . The British Postal Museum claims that the oldest functioning post office in the world is on High Street in Sanquhar , Scotland . The post office has functioned continuously since 1712, during which horses and stagecoaches were used to carry mail. Rural parts of Canada in the 19th century utilised the way office system. Villagers could leave their letters at the way office which were then taken to

240-523: The 1650s, shortly after the legalisation of private mail services in England in 1635. In early modern England, post riders — mounted couriers —were placed, or "posted", every few hours along post roads at posting houses (also known as post houses) between major cities, or " post towns ". These stables or inns permitted important correspondence to travel without delay. In early America, post offices were also known as stations. This term, as well as

264-477: The 2000 A.D., post offices would collect fees for radio licenses, recruitment for government jobs, and the operation of public call telephone (PCO) booths. Postmen would deliver letters, money orders, and parcels to places that are within the assigned area of a particular post office. Each Indian post office is assigned a unique six-digit code called the Postal Index Number , or PIN. Each post office

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288-678: The 2007 Federal Election to the Australian Labor Party's Belinda Neal . In 2010 the seat was won by Labor member Deborah O'Neill. After the 2013 Federal election, Lucy Wicks of the Liberal party held office. The May federal election of 2022, saw Dr Gordon Reid of the Australian Labor Party, win the seat of Robertson. In the New South Wales Legislative Assembly , Kincumber is within the electorate of Terrigal , currently held by Adam Crouch of

312-684: The Gosford City Council: "Withdraw your daughter from kindergarten or we will go public with the fact she has HIV". Van Grafhorst and her family lived a relatively normal life in Hastings, where she was permitted to attend school. She eventually died from the disease in 1993, at the age of eleven. On 28 August 2000, the Olympic torch relay passed through Kincumber en route to the Sydney Olympic Stadium . According to

336-571: The Kincumber area include axe-grinding grooves and rock engravings on Kincumba Mountain. Due to the freshwater creek, water access from Brisbane Water and the Hawkesbury River , and an abundance of old rainforest timber in the surrounding valley hills, Kincumber was one of the earliest settlements on the Central Coast, supplying wood for the needs of the growing colony at Sydney in the early 19th century. Boat building became an early local secondary industry after timber-getting , to meet

360-492: The Liberal Party. Polling place statistics are presented below combining the votes from the Kincumber , Kincumber Central and Scaysbrook polling places in the federal and state elections as indicated. 33°27′54″S 151°23′35″E  /  33.465°S 151.393°E  / -33.465; 151.393 List of Central Coast suburbs This is a complete list of the towns, localities and suburbs located in

384-580: The advent of private courier companies in the 1990s. It is run by the Indian government's Department of Posts. India Post accepts and delivers inland letters, postcards, parcels, postal stamps, and money orders (money transfers). Few post offices in India offer speed post (fast delivery) and payments or bank savings services. It is also uncommon for Indian post offices to sell insurance policies or accept payment for electricity, landline telephone, or gas bills. Until

408-456: The area surveyed. During the mid-1980s, the town made international headlines for the mistreatment of Eve van Grafhorst , a girl who contracted HIV through an infected blood transfusion after her premature birth. When van Grafhorst bit a child at kindergarten in 1985, she was not allowed to return unless she wore a face mask. The attitude of local residents eventually forced her and her family to move to Hastings, New Zealand . They were told by

432-499: The nearest post office, as well as pick up their mail from the way office. In parts of Europe, special postal censorship offices existed to intercept and censor mail. In France, such offices were known as cabinets noirs . In many jurisdictions, mailboxes and post office boxes have long been in widespread use for drop-off and pickup (respectively) of mail and small packages outside post offices or when offices are closed. Germany's national postage system Deutsche Post introduced

456-602: The other providing sturdy oxen for bulk shipments. The Byzantine historian Procopius , though not unbiased, records the Cursus Publicus system remained largely intact until it was dismantled in the Byzantine empire by the emperor Justinian in the 6th century. The Princely House of Thurn and Taxis family initiated regular mail service from Brussels in the 16th century , directing the Imperial Post of

480-537: The post office, postal systems would route items to a specific post office for receipt or delivery. During the 19th century in the United States , this often led to smaller communities being renamed after their post offices, particularly after the Post Office Department began to require that post office names not be duplicated within a state . The term "post-office" has been in use since

504-1136: The practice. In the Persian Empire , a Chapar Khaneh system existed along the Royal Road . Similar postage systems were established in India and China by the Mauryan and Han dynasties in the 2nd century BCE. The Roman historian Suetonius credited Augustus with regularising the Roman transportation and courier network, the Cursus Publicus . Local officials were obliged to provide couriers who would be responsible for their message's entire course. Locally maintained post houses ( Latin : stationes ) privately owned rest houses ( Latin : mansiones ) and were obliged or honored to care for couriers along their way. The Roman emperor Diocletian later established two parallel systems: one providing fresh horses or mules for urgent correspondence and

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528-508: The primary necessity of water transport. Boat-building along Kincumber Creek continued until the early 20th century. The last ship was built in the area in 1906 by George Frost. It was called the SS Rock Lily . Kincumber was once home to a monazite processing plant that processed mineral sands mined in the local area. The plant was operated on the edge of Kincumber industrial estate, and backed on to Kincumber Creek. The site, "Lot 500",

552-450: The rising sun" or "to tomorrow". A large open flat rock area at the highest plateau of Kincumba Mountain, which commands panoramic views of the region, was used by Kuringgai people as a meeting place and camp. Being the highest open position in the region, it was first to receive the morning sun as it broke over the eastern horizon Tasman Sea / Pacific Ocean , and so this area was also referred to as "towards tomorrow". Signs of habitation in

576-438: The term "post house", fell from use as horse and coach services were replaced by railways , aircraft , and automobiles . The term "post office" usually refers to government postal facilities providing customer service. " General Post Office " is sometimes used for the national headquarters of a postal service, even if the building does not provide customer service. A postal facility that is used exclusively for processing mail

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