BUSY CHRISTMAS

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 85, 4 January 1940, Page 10

BUSY CHRISTMAS

Post Offices In The Four

Centres

STAMP SALES INCREASE

information available yesterday at the Chief Post Office. Wellington, shows that a tremendous volume of business was handled in Hie post oilices in the four centres during Christmas week. Because of the increased postage rates, stamp sales in all centres showed a marked increase, but there was a drop in the niwibor of parcels posted. I nis was accounted for by the fact that this year small parcels were counted as packets. The figures for the lour centres are .as follows: —

SiX ,dn " *2,139,131 *2,092,979 31!,1bba dispatelied 30.909 29,280 Mail-bags . received |lo,owJ ’Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin only. tAV-eMingtou, Christchurch. and Dunedin only.

Wellington. 1938. 1.939. £5132 Parcels posted 25,IIP Letters through post17,018 marking machines . SOS.194 832.520 Mail-bags' dispatched 8.611 S.;>42 Mail-bags received . . 6.6S1 6.292 Auckland. Stamp sales £3069 £4833 Parcels posted 26.241 Letters through post-2-1,313 marking machines 927,236 885,242 Mail-bags dispatched 12,61a 12,336 Mail-bags received .. Records not kept. Christchurch. Stamp stulets £-1261 Parcels posted 22, too Letters through post19,888 marking machines . . 5o record. Mail-bags dispatched 5,01)2 0,224 Mail-bags received 1 ... a,034 5.481 Dunedin. Stamp sales £15Si £2115 Parcels posted 8,761 Letters through post7,855 marking machines . 403,701 375,217 Mail-tags dispatched 3,731 3.118 Mail-bags received .. 3.837 3.378 Totals For Four Centres. Stamp sales ... £11,762 £16.341 Parcels posted .. 82.SS7 Letters through 69,104