POST OFFICE EFFICIENCY.
FEW PACKAGES LOST. 244 MILLIONS HANDLED. WELLINGTON, Aug. 31. Last year the postal service of the Dominion delivered to their intended destinations no fewer than 244,361,865 postal packets, made up of 149,881,324 letters, 4,557,568 postcards, 3,698,400 parcels, and 86,224,573 other articles. Of the number of postal packages passing through its hands, the Post Office actually lost only 0.0009 per cent, or less than one in a thousand. During the postal year there were 6002 inquiries made for missing postal packages, and of them 3790 ultimately were found not to have gone astray. For any delay in delivery it was found that in 1032 cases the sender was responsible, and in 1251 cases the addressee. In 1115 cases blame could not definitely, be fixed, and in only 392 cases was tho service at fault. No trace at all was found of 2212 packages. If posted at all they seemed to have vanished into thin air.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 235, 1 September 1927, Page 5
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157POST OFFICE EFFICIENCY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 235, 1 September 1927, Page 5
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