Remittance Services
28. There were general increases in the totals of remittances by Money Order and Postal Order services compared with 1969-70 although Postal Orders issued showed a reduction as compared with 1969-70. Commission earned on the remittance services was $337,715.44, an increase of $8,851.92 over the previous year.
Service
Money Order
1969-70
1970-71
Paid
Amount
Issued
No.
Amount
No.
56,493 $5,812,479.40 59,799 $7,029,139,08
53,666 $4,170,866.87 56,805
$4,864,171.35
Postal Order
1969-70 1970-71
Business Reply Service
99,125 $3,438,852.00 1,204,751 $58,647,030.84 89,981 $3,256,826.30 1,196,350 $66,424,999.83
29. On the 31st March, 1971 there were 326 licences in issue, 63 having been issued and 53 cancelled during the year.
Postage Meter Machines
30. The increasing recognition by business houses of the advantages of using postage meter machines continues and the number licensed rose from 643 in 1969-70 to 761 in 1970-71. Postage collected through meter accounts was over $35,000,000.00.
POSTAL SERVICES
31. There was yet again a substantial increase in postal traffic in 1970-71. 296.6 million articles were handled representing an increase of about 41 million items or 16% over the previous year. An improved method of assessing mails traffic indicates that the 7% growth between 1968-69 and 1969-70 reported in the last Annual Departmental Report was understated, and that this was in fact about 11%. The amended figures for 1969-70 have been carried to the relative appendices in this Report. There has thus been a growth of 27% in postal traffic over the last two years. This is largely attributable to mails for local delivery which now form about 55% of total postings, a marked change from as recently as three years ago when they constituted only 45% of the total.
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