XN000022-1975-07-06 — Page 1

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新寶院

SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1975.

DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN

YEAR OF EXPANDING POSTAL SERVICES

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HONG KONG'S POSTAL SERVICES CONTINUED TO EXPAND IN QUANTITY AND QUALITY DURING THE 1974-75 FINANCIAL YEAR WITH A RECORD TOTAL. OF 265.2 MILLION POSTAL ITEMS HANDLED BY THE POST OFFICE WITH MORE SOPHISTICATED METHODS.

REVENUE AMOUNTED TO $183.7 MILLION, AN INCREASE OF 5.8 PER CENT OVER THE PREVIOUS YEAR'S FIGURE, WHILE EXPENDITURE TOTALLING $113 MILLION, SHOWED AN INCREASE OF 12.1 PER CENT WHEN COMPARED WITH THE PREVIOUS YEAR'S.

SPECIAL POSTAL SERVICES SUCH AS SPEEDPOST ''ON DEMAND' ' AND ACCELERATED SURFACE POST WERE INTRODUCED AND OTHER SOPHISTICATED FACILITIES LIKE SPEEDPOST AND EXPRESS MAIL WERE EXPANDED AND CONSOLIDATED.

OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF POSTAL ITEMS HANDLED, SOME 124.3 MILLION LETTERS, PRINTED PAPERS, POSTCARDS, REGISTERED MAIL AND SMALL PACKETS WERE POSTED IN HONG KONG FOR LOCAL DELIVERY.

THIS SHOWED AN INCREASE OF 4.5 MILLION ON THE PREVIOUS YEAR'S FIGURE, AND ALMOST A 70 PER CENT INCREASE OVER THE VOLUME HANDLED FIVE YEARS AGO.

PARCELS POSTED FOR LOCAL DELIVERY ALSO ROSE FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR'S 61,700 TO 89,600 - AN INCREASE OF MORE THAN 45 PER CENT.

TO COPE WITH THE INCREASED VOLUME OF WORK, 20 EXTRA POSTMEN WERE EMPLOYED, BRINGING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF POSTMEN ON DELIVERY WORK TO 606. A NEW MAIL DELIVERY VAN WAS ALSO PUT TO USE, BRINGING TO 88 THE TOTAL FLEET STRENGTH.

THE TOTAL NUMBER OF AIR AND SURFACE MAIL ITEMS SENT OVERSEAS FELL BY 4.2 PER CENT FROM 80.2 MILLION TO 76.8 MILLION. A SPOKESMAN FOR THE POST OFFICE SAID THIS WAS MAINLY BECAUSE OF A REDUCTION IN THE POSTING OF MAIL ORDER ADVERTISING MATERIAL.

PARCELS SENT TO OVERSEAS COUNTRIES, HOWEVER, INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY. THOSE SENT BY AIR NUMBERED 854,900, AN INCREASE OF 109,900 OR 14.8 PER CENT OVER THE PREVIOUS YEAR'S FIGURE. PARCELS SENT BY SEA ALSO INCREASED BY 3.27 PER CENT, FROM 957,300 TO 988,600.

POSTAL ITEMS SENT TO CHINA CONTINUED TO INCREASE. THE NUMBER OF LETTERS AND PARCELS SENT ROSE BY 600,000 AND 114,800 RESPECTIVELY.

PARCELS RECEIVED FROM ABROAD WENT DOWN MARGINALLY BY 2 PER CENT TO 546,900 WHILE PARCELS RECEIVED IN TRANSIT ROSE BY 2.3 PER CENT TO 40,800.

Issued by Government Information Services, Beaconsfield House, Hong Kong. /DURING THE

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