Category of Mail
TABLE I
APPENDIX V
1973-74
% Change
SUMMARY OF POSTAL STATISTICS
1972-73
+ 3.7
Desp.
Revd. Transit
(a) Letters and Postcards..
159.8
169.3
+ 5.9
(b) Printed Papers and Small Packets
78.1
77.8
0.4
(c) Registered Articles (d) Parcels
11.0
11.2
+ 1.8
3.2
3.1
3.1
1. POSTAL ARTICLES
HANDLED (MILLIONS)
26
TOTAL
Desp.
261.4
Revd. Transit Desp. Revd. Transit
252.1
(a) Letters and Postcards. (b) Printed Papers and Small Packets
427,762 447,416
459,338 485,613
+ 7.4
+ 8.5
(c) Parcels
290,465 357,201 1,086,711 508,344
551,948 328,086 395,426 70,216 857,300 459,276) 124,893-21.1
524,755
4.9
+-13.0
+10.7
9.7
+77.9
TOTAL
1,804,938 1,312,961
622,164 1,644,724| 1,340,315| 649,648
+ 8.9 2.1)
+ 4.4
2. WEIGHT OF AIRMAIL HANDLED (Kg.)