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post-offices are also established. At the close of 1898, the total number
of post-offices was 2,241, and of employés, 3,439.
It appears from international postal statistics for 1898, that
in comparison to her population, Norway is one of the countries
most abundantly supplied with post-offices in the Postal Union, as
there is a post-office to every 990 inhabitants. A more favourable
condition in this respect is shown by only one country in Europe,
namely Switzerland, where there is a post-office to every 840
inhabitants. After Norway comes Germany with 1478 inhabitants
to every post-office.
The revenue of the Norwegian Post Office is increasing
rapidly, and during the last 5 years has augmented by an average
of kr. 252,000 per annum. In 1898, the total receipts were kr.
4,497,868 and the expenditure kr. 4,183,222.
In 1898, 33,563,600 inland letters were dispatched, of which
2,236,900 were letters with declared value, amounting to
kr. 334,475,000; and 5,265,500 foreign letters, of which 70,800
were letters with declared value, amounting to kr. 13,585,100.
The number of foreign letters received was 5,941,000, of which
14,100 were letters with declared value, amounting to kr. 9,930,200.
In the course of the year, 46,445,400 newspapers and periodicals
were dispatched, 4,278,800 other packets of printed matter, samples
and business papers, and 315,000 parcels. The number of postal
and telegraphic money orders dispatched was 259,474, to the
amount of kr. 12,540,746.
The average per head of letters dispatched is about 17.5.
Comparing this with the number of letters per head in other
countries, it appears that among 56 countries in the Postal Union,
Norway is the 17th as regards the amount of correspondence, and
among 21 European countries, the 10th. The correspondence is
greatest in the town-counties Kristiania and Bergen, where the
numbers are 56.98 and 39.57 letters respectively per inhabitant
(reckoned according to the population at the last census); next
comes Finmarken with 21.30 letters per head. Of foreign
connections, that with Germany is the briskest. In 1898, 1,078,400
ordinary letters were dispatched to Germany; next come the
British Isles with 938,800, Sweden with 935,200, Denmark with
480,700, and France with 208,900.
In the course of the last 10 years, the correspondence of the
country has been almost exactly doubled.
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