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SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1990

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NECESSITY TO CHANGE POST OFFICE'S TITLE BEING CONSIDERED

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(SATURDAY)

THE POSTMASTER GENERAL, MR DOMINIC S.W. WONG, TODAY

DEPARTMENT SHOULD SEEK SAID THAT HE WAS NOW CONSIDERING WHETHER HIS

ROLE IN POSTS AND TO CHANGE ITS TITLE TO PROPERLY REFLECT ITS FULL TELECOMMUNICATIONS.

SPEAKING AT

THE

PRIZE-GIVING

THE CEREMONY FOR

OPEN STAMP AND EXHIBITION DESIGN COMPETITION HELD AT THE HONG KONG CONVENTION

GENERAL MISCONCEPTION CENTRE, MR WONG SAID HE WOULD LIKE TO DISPEL A THAT THE HONG KONG POST OFFICE MERELY HANDLED STAMPS AND POSTS,

"AS THE POSTMASTER GENERAL, I ALSO WEAR

HE SAID. TELECOMMUNICATIONS AUTHORITY,

DEVELOPMENT AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES IN HONG KONG.

THE

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ANOTHER HAT ENTITLED "AS SUCH,

HAVE ALL

INCLUDED SUCH HE POINTED OUT THAT THESE ORDINARY TELEPHONES, INTERNATIONAL TELEPHONES,

CORDLESS TELEPHONES, COMMUNICATION,

REGULATION

I

OF

FAMILIAR THINGS AS

FACSIMILE, TELEX, PAGERS, SATELLITE

GENERAL

RADIO MOBILE

TELEPHONES,

AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

SOME

BROADCASTING.

"THIS IS AN EXTREMELY WIDE

AND

INCREASINGLY

RESPONSIBILITY,

HE SAID.

ASPECTS

OF

IMPORTANT

MR WONG POINTED OUT THAT STAMP DESIGNS IN HONG KONG VERY GOOD REPUTATION BOTH LOCALLY AND OVERSEAS.

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ENJOYED A

BUT SENSIBLE

IS POLICY WHICH

TO ISSUES NORMALLY TO FIVE EACH

'WE HAVE FOLLOWED A STRICT LIMIT THE FREQUENCY OF SPECIAL STAMP YEAR.

"THIS IS IN SHARP

CONTRAST TO

FOREIGN SOME

POSTAL

ADMINISTRATIONS WHICH RELEASE BETWEEN 10 AND 20 SPECIAL ISSUES A YEAR, OR EVEN MORE.

"IF THE HONG KONG POST OFFICE WERE TO ADOPT THIS POLICY, SURE THAT OUR STAMP COLLECTORS WOULD HAVE BAULKED THEIR POPULATION WOULD HAVE DIMINISHED HAVE SUFFERED DRASTICALLY, HE SAID.

AND OUR

I AM AT THE PRACTICE, SALES FIGURE WOULD

CIVIC

то

THE STRICT POLICY AND IT WAS FORTUNATE THAT BY ADHERING

SALES

OF POTENTIAL NATURALLY THROUGH GENERAL

EDUCATION, THE SPECIAL STAMPS HAD CONSTANTLY BEEN ON THE INCREASE, MR WONG SAID.

HE SAID THAT ON A TYPICAL FIRST DAY

OF ISSUE, THE POST OFFICE OVER 300,000 SOLD ON AVERAGE OVER $5 MILLION WORTH OF NEW STAMPS AND FIRST DAY COVERS.

"ON SPECIAL

OCCASIONS,

SUCH

AS

HIGHNESSES THE PRINCE AND THE PRINCESS OF YEAR AND THE YEAR OF THE HORSE 1990 OUR AND $10.5 MILLION RESPECTIVELY.

THE

VISIT OF

ROYAL THEIR WALES TO HONG KONG LAST SALES REACHED $9.7 MILLION

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