Tallebudgera Post Office (former)

Tucked away in a quiet back street in the village of Tallebudgera, is one of the oldest post offices in Queensland. Established when Tallebudgera was a Cobb & Co staging post, this relic of Gold Coast history began as a privately run post office in 1878. The village developed in the 1870s and included the Rose and Crown Hotel, a general store, blacksmith, wheelwright, stables and school. Expansion continued in the 1880s with the establishment of a police station, a Presbyterian and a Catholic Church. The post office was owned and established by Stephen Tobin. The fact that this building was never replaced by a more permanent, government building suggests that Tallebudgera was not deemed to be large enough to warrant a government facility. Nevertheless, the post office provided a number of services including a trunk line and telephone exchange, postal services, cash-on-delivery parcels, money order and savings bank services, payment of old age and war service pensions and telegraph by telephone. It continued to operate until 1958.