POST OFFICE BUSINESS

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22909, 4 January 1940, Page 9

POST OFFICE BUSINESS

FIGURES FOR CHRISTMAS PERIOD

[THE PRESS Special Service}

- WELLINGTON, January »., information made available to-day at the Chief Post Office, Wellington,.shows that a tremendous volume of -■::<? business was handled in the post offices vin the iour centres during Christmas week. Because of the increased,post- 'V": age rates, stamp sales in all centres ;rr showed a marked increase; but there .. f was a drop in the : number of parcels : . posted. This was accounted for , by the fact that this year small parcels v were counted as packets. Figures for .-. the four centres are:— i,--

Wellington 1938. Stamp sales' . . *3,923 Parcels posted . • •20,11=’ Letters through post ■ marking machines 808,194 Mailbags dispatched . 8.011 Mailbags received .. «,b8i 1939. £5,132 . ' 17,048 832,520 : > 8,542 r 6,292 . Auckland ■ - ■ " r ;: . 1938, 1939. i'“ Stamp sales., • *3,069 £4,833 Parcels posted . • 26,241 24,313 Letters Through post • > . marking machines 927,236 ■ 885,242 - * Mailbags dispatched, 12,615 12,336 - ■Mailbags received—Records not Kept. Christchurch - • 1938. Stamp sales .. £3,183 Parcels posted .. 22,766 1939. : - ' £4,261 19,888 marking machines . Mailbags dispatched Mailbags received .. ' No record. , = 5,952 5,224 -V,. 5,034 5,481 Dunedin ‘ 1938. 1939 Stamp sales ’■ " r Parcels posted - 8,761 7,855,. nr Letters through post marking machines 403,701 375,217 Mailbags 3.731 3,178 Mailbags received ... 3,837 Totals for Four Centres ■ T... *188*831Letters through post • ■ Mailbags 30,909 . 29.280 - Mailbags - received (excluding Auck- ■ _ • /. - .land) , 15,552 15,151 - ,