BRITISH POST OFFICE
CHRISTMAS FIGURES
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, December 30.
During the Christmas holidays the Post Office delivered some 286,000,000 letters and 10,000,000 parcels, representing an increase over last year's figures of 9.5 per cent, and 12.7 per cent, respectively.
All mail posted up to the latest advertised times was delivered by Christmas Day—a remarkable achievement in view of the serious dislocation of road and rail traffic during the period by fog.
Telegram and* telephone traffic was also heavier than in previous years. A total of 26,500,000 postal orders were issued, compared with 20,000,000 last year.
Withdrawals by Post Oflice Savings Bank depositors during December were £1,000,000 higher, at £10,000,000, than in December, 1934, but the balance held by the bank of £390,000,000 was £30,000,000 more than a year ago.
The extension of the telephone system in Britain in 1935 was a noticeable feature of the development of postal services. In November 2,500,000 telephones were in use. The number of local calls during the year is estimated at 1,755,000,000 and trunk calls 95,000,----000.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19360102.2.95
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 9
Word Count
174BRITISH POST OFFICE Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in