GREY POST OFFICE

Greymouth Evening Star, 31 December 1940, Page 2

GREY POST OFFICE

CHRISTMAS TRAFFIC RETURNS.

Postal business handled at the Chief Post Office, Greymouth, during the four days immediately preceding Christmas this year showed a decrease of approximately seven and ahalf per cent, on figures for the previous Christmas. It was noticeable that many people this year posted Christmas greeting cards, rather than small presents, and this reduced the number of parcel bags, While many letters and parcels for men overseas were posted much earlier than the period covered by the return. , Both inward and outward telegrams were .considerably below the numbers bandied during the previous Christmas, but this could be accounted for by the fact that there were no cheap rate Christmas greeting telegrams, many people using cards and the toll service in preference to full rate telegrams. The figures for the four days, December 20, 21, 23 and 24, with comparisons with last year also given, were as follow:—

POSTAL 1940 1939 Letter Bags Out 706 820 Parcel Bags Out 411 420 Letter Bags In 831 890 Parcel Bags In 457 464 Totals 2405 2594 TELEGRAMS. 1940 1939 Forwarded 2898 4112 Received 2499 3803 Transmitted 2280 6147