PARCEL POST
Enormous Expansion (P.A.) WELLINGTON, February 18. Some indication of the huge increase in the volume of work thrown on the Post Office owing to the war can be gained from a study of statistics relating to the number of parcels dispatched overseas in 1941. The Post-master-General (the Hon. P. C. Webb) said that approximately 1,000,000 parcels were posted in New Zealand for overseas In 1941, against aproxlmately 250.000 in 1940 and 45.000 in 1939. The last-mentioned could be regarded as a normal year’s posting. Of the 1.000,000 parcels in 1941, approximately 750.000 were for the Armed Forces, 200,000 were for civilians in the United Kingdom as gift parcels, and 50,000 were ordinary trade and civilian parcels.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22201, 19 February 1942, Page 4
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