ALL-ROUND INCREASE

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 132, 1 December 1936, Page 9

ALL-ROUND INCREASE

BUSINESS OF BRITISH POST

OFFICE

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, November 29,

The activities of the Post Office enter so closely and at so many points into the complexion of business relations that the movement of Post Office business provides a sensitive index of commercial conditions generally. It is noteworthy, therefore, that the steady growth of recent years has continued during the last Post Office year, for which figures are now available. The total value of transactions with the public in 1935-36 was of the order of £901,000,000, an increase of about £40,000,000 over the previous year. Letter mails reached a new high record, and parcels also showed a marked increase. Inland telegrams, after years of steady decline, reacted to the reduced tariff introducd in May, 1935, and rose to 44,500,000, compared with 35,500,000 in the year before. Telephone business showed further acceleration. Money orders showed a small increase, and the issue of postal orders was a new high record at over 311,000,000, with an approximate value of £81,000,000. The Savings Bank balance reached the record figure of £390,000,000. Increased sales of unemployment and health insurance stamps reacted the growth of the number of persons m employment.