FEDERAL POST OFFICE
THE YEAR'S WORKING • ( iNTERESTING. FIGURES..'.. .. ■ (UNITED JEESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIItiaHT.) '.. -■ 'Received July 1, 11 ajn4 . ; .■•'•■■_;• MELBOURNE, This Day. f The report of, the Post and Telegraph Department for the year ended June, 1921, contains some interesting (terns. The profits'on working totalled £1,143,767, and was chiefly due to increased, postal charges. The telephones' earned profits amounting to £222,475/ but the. telegraph branch made; & loss of £8312. ... .';• :. . :':>;■
.^ The report says that although the 1 revenue increased as the result of higher postal charges, there was actually a falling-off in business, partly due (to., these increased .rates'.1.-'. During the .year, the. Department handled 631,000,----|OOO letters. Careless addresses resulted in over £178)000 worth of money and' Ivaluables landing in fthe Dead Letter [Office, 549 of these letters, containing j!n all, £5853, had no addres* whatever, wloney-orders and postal notes issued by .the Department totalled nearly '£17,---800.000... '.-:: .■■'■• ■;.; :-■••: •';•■--. ■.- .•:•:
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 1, 1 July 1922, Page 7
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143FEDERAL POST OFFICE Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 1, 1 July 1922, Page 7
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