Post_Office_1950 — Page 11

TABLE III.

Number of Parcels Received and Despatched at Hong Kong From 1.4.1949 to 31.3.1950.

9

Received

Total

for

Country

Locally

Posted

In

Des-

Delivery

Transit

patched

in

Total

1949/50

Total

1948/49

Comparison with 1948/49

Hong Kong

Increase Decrease

Australia

Ordinary

5,983

276

6,259

3,066

9,325

10,334

1,009

Australia

Insured

349

349

998

1,347

1,586

239

China

Ordinary

37,584

676

38,260

4,104

42,364

36,968

5,396

France

Ordinary

119

137

256

490

746

2,174

1,428

India

Ordinary

3,392

948

4,340

1,536

5,876

9,367

3,491

India

Insured

1,175

1,175

48

1,223

591

632

Japan

Ordinary

4,667

152

4,819

2,350

7,169

1,286

5,883

Malaya

Ordinary

14,328

718

15,046

8,341

23,387

22,466

921

Malaya

Insured

760

2

752

61

813

894

81

Malaya

C.O.D.

37

37

23

60

7

53

United Kingdom.. Ordinary

33,048

1,088

34,136

35,002

69,138

71,240

United Kingdom.. Insured

31,892

4

31,896

3,657

35,553

41,201

2,102

5,648

United Kingdom.. | C.O.D.

1,130

1,130

475

655

U.S.A. & Honolulu | Ordinary

32,138

13

32,151

111,082

143,233

U.S.A. & Honolulu Air

4,763

4,763

2,312

7,075

106,358

2,111

36,875

4,964

Miscellaneous

Ordinary

22,866

2,584

25,450

10,108

35,558

28,827

6,731

Miscellaneous

Insured

265

7

272

129

401

390

11

Miscellaneous

Air

205

205

555

760

215

545

193,561 |

6,605

200,166 | 184,992

385,158

336,490

62,666

13,998

Parcels posted in Hong Kong for local delivery:

164

168

4

385,322

| 336,658

62,666

14,002

TOTAL INCREASE:

48,664