INTRODUCTORY SUMMARY
THE Post Office Department operates postal services within the Colony and participates in worldwide exchanges of mails by sea and air. It is responsible for postal remittance services and for such administrative functions as telecommunications control and radiowave regulation.
2. The activities of the Department were not significantly affected by adverse influences which created some unevenness in the Colony's economic activity during the year and satisfactory growth occurred in all services.
3. Provisioning of new offices, especially in developing areas, and planning in connexion with the rebuilding of major offices continued unabated. With three new offices opened during the year the total in operation at the year end was 45. Twenty-one were in various stages of planning. The first step in the realization of the new General Post Office was taken with the provision of covered bays equipped with loading gear adjacent to the new Blake Pier.
4. The financial results were highly satisfactory, total revenue collec- tions increasing by twice the amount of the preceding year's increase and exceeding ninety millions of dollars for the first time.
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These results reflected the considerable increases in most classes of mail handled during the year which in respect of items for local delivery exceeded 20%. Much of the increase in the numbers of printed papers posted for destinations overseas is ascribed to the extended use by publishers with large foreign circulations of local printing services.
6. Arising out of the measures adopted by the Universal Postal Union Convention held in Vienna in 1964 minor changes in classifica- tions and rate and weight limits fell due for adoption in early 1966.
7. In addition to exercising its routine functions the Telecommuni- cations Division was actively concerned in evaluating tenders for communication schemes for Government departments and for broadcast television.
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