TABLE 1
Letter mails handled during the year 1951/52
From statistics taken at two fortnightly periods during the year the total letters (excluding registered and insured items) posted and delivered and handled in transit was estimated as follows:----
POSTED
Air Mails
Surface Mails
For Local Delivery
DELIVERED
Letters and cards Printed papers
Letters and cards
Printed papers
Letters and cards
Printed papers
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Total posted articles
7,739,060
157,940
7,897,000
15,394,360
1,338,640 16,733,000
7,845,223
3,922,777 11,768,000
36,398,000
Rec'd from overseas
Posted in Hong Kong for local delivery
Letters and cards Printed papers
Letters and cards Printed papers
25,963,200
2,884,800 28,848,000
7,845,223
3,922,777 11,768,000
Total delivered articles
40,616,000
TRANSIT
Air Mails
Letters and cards
Printed papers
* * * * *
Surface Mails
Letters and cards
Printed papers
Total transit articles
1,263,100
222,900 1,486,000
966,254
482,746 1,449,000
2,935,000
SUMMARY
POSTED articles
DELIVERED articles
TRANSIT articles
Total number of articles
36,398,000
40,616,000
2,935,000
79,949,000
These figures do not take into account 55,800 "through" bags of TRANSIT mail handled at Hong Kong during the year,
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