GIGANTIC TASK
WONDERFUL BRITISH POUT
OFFICE
The work of the British Post Office is so' gigantic that 'its figures are more easily printed than grasped. Ho"' wonderful it is that, in the twelve months ending March last, the post
office carried 6540 million letters, 158 million parcels, and 58 million registered packages. Then there is the telegraph and telephone department, which handled 37 million inland telegrams and 11 million foreign telegrams, and put through 1429 million inland telephone calls, to say nothing of over a million international calls.
But the post office is also concerned with banking, and it dealt in the year with 20 million savings-bank deposits, 12 million withdrawals, and 223 mil* lion postal and money orders. The post- office also pays out pensions, and the number dealt with in the twelve months was over 150 millions. Finally there are wireless licenses of which 4,620.001) were issued. The British Post Offices’ business with the British. public attained the tremendous figure of £9i6,700,000.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1933, Page 6
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164GIGANTIC TASK Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1933, Page 6
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