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TABLE I-Contd.

APPENDIX VI-Contd.

1

Category of Mail

1971-72

1972-73

% Change

Desp.

Revd. Transit Desp. Revd. Transit

Desp. Rcvd. | Transit

6,796 6,687 20,373 7,988 113,294 50,503 63,460 103,987 214,512 85,541 9,368 223,436|

7,439

27,896 + 17,5 + 11.3 + 36.9

63,858

83.919

71,220 8.2 + 26.4 + 12.2 28,447 + 4.2

1.9 +203.7

3. NUMBER OF MAIL BAGS HANDLED BY SEA (a) Letters and Postcards. (b) Printed Papers and Small Packets (c) Parcels

27

4.

334,602 142,731) 93,201 335,411 155,216 127,563 + 0.2 + 8.7 + 36.9

(a) Letters and Postcards.

9,205

10,261

17,696 10,217 11,486

23,372 + 11.0 + 11.9 + 32.1

(6) Printed Papers and

Small Packets

193,289

9,537

(c) Parcels

31,276

6,872

55,137 236,608| 8,139 77,573

9,511

12,043

59,692 + 22.4 0.3 + 8.3 23,842 +148.0 + 75.2 +192.9

TOTAL

233,770

26,670

80,972 324,398|

33,040 106,906 + 38.8 + 23.9 +32.0

3.9

TOTAL

NUMBER OF MAIL

BAGS HANDLED BY RAIL