SOME INTERESTING POINTS.
FROM THE REPORT OF THE POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT
The following are interesting points culled from the report for the year 1924-25 of the Post and Tele-
graph Department as submitted to His Excellency the Governor-Gen-eral and both Houses of Parliament by the Hon. Sir C. J. Parr, Postmaster General: —
The number of articles delivered in the Dominion by the Postal Department, including those received from places, beyond New Zealand, during the year 1924 was as under: —Letters, 135,795,141; postcards, 3,909,557; parcels, 3,044,500; all other articles, 71,302,283; a grand total of 214,711,487. The average number of letters posted per unit of population in 1924 was 103.7. Undelivered Postal Packets: — The total number of letters and other articles dealt with as undeliverable during the year from various causes was 831,557. The proportion of undeliverable letters to the total number of letters delivered was 0.45 per cent. Miscellaneous. —Letters and let-ter-cards posted without addresses, during the year, 17,352; letters imperfectly and insuticiently addressed, 20,335; letters bearing libellous addresses intercepted, 42; registered letters unclaimed, 8,702; newspapers received without addresses, 4,54 ft; other articles received without addresses, 3,937; newspapers returned to publishers its undeliverable, 28,881; articles bearing previously used stamps, 77. There were 3,930 packets, other than parcels, dealt with in the Dead Letter Office during 1924, and special effort was made to find the senders or addressees. The number of “special -request” letters returned unopened to senders showed a decrease during 1924. The report says: “If business people realised that a special request to return in the event of non-delivery, printed on an envelope, meant a quicker return of a letter, more would avail themselves of the system.-’ Money-Orders. —The PostmasterGeneral’s report says the moneyorder business for the year ending 31st March, 1925, shows a marked increase, the money orders issued exceeding those of the previous year by aproximately fifty-thous-and in number and by £390,009 in value. “The system of trade charge money-orders introduced some few years ago for the purpose of’ providing for payment on delivery of the value of parcels despatched to or from the United Kingdom is growing in popularity .... When it becomes more widely known that a person in Now Zealand may order goods from England and pay for them at this end on arrival, the system will he used more largely
Savings Bank. —“The fact that the Postmaster-General may now pay up to £2OO to the legal representative of a deceased depositor without requiring him to take out letters of administration or prove any will which may have been left, together with the provision whereby a depositor may nominate one or more persons to receive .a portion or the whole of the amount at credit of the account after his death, serves to enable the widow or other members of the family of a deceased depositor to get possession of often much-needed funds without cost and without delay.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2922, 13 August 1925, Page 4
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483SOME INTERESTING POINTS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2922, 13 August 1925, Page 4
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