BRITISH POST OFFICE
AN EFFICIENT ORGANIZATION. RECORD PROFIT ANTICIPATED. (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, September 24. ■The Postmaster-General, Mr H. B. LeesSmith. states that when the accounts of the Post Office for the last financial year are completed they will show a record profit of approximately £9,250,000. He claimed for his department an average level of efficiency higher than that displayed in other industries, and said the criticism to which as a public department it was open acted as a tonic.
Referring to the postal service he said it carried 6,000,000 letters yearly. As for the telephone service, the proportion of wrong calls was only 1 per cent, in the provinces and 31 per cent, in London, while the average time a subscriber had to wait before an operator answered his call was 6.4 seconds in the provinces and 5.3 seconds in London.
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Southland Times, Issue 21198, 26 September 1930, Page 7
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