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postal service. 1003
Table 157. Postal service. Revenue and expenditure.
Average for
the years
I
Thousands of kilometers covered
by the mails.
On
highroad.
By
railway.
By water.
Total.
Revenne and expenditure.
Kronor à 110 shilling.
Revenue.
Expenditure. Surplus
! 1866/70................5,727 2,504 2,214,758 2,112,736 102,022
1871/75................6,394 3,973 8,214,234 3,116,157 98,077
1876/80................6,858 7,710 4,319 18,887 4,725,803 4,715,361 10,442
1881/85................6,131 10,221 5,364 21,71» 5,821,974 5,146,638 675,336
1886/90..............6,764 13,206 6,444 20,414 6,656,773 6,427,723 229,050
1891,95................7,184 16,045 7,243 30,472 8,013,648 7,457,182 556,466
1896/00 ..............7,831 19,543 6,859 34,233 10,411,164 9,470,849 940,315
In 1900....... 8,738 21,670 6,485 3»,803 11,883,965 11,218,836 665,129
» 1901....... 9,292 22,739 6,455 38,486 12,842,134 12,205,749 636,385
» 1902....... 9,589 23,522 6,366 30,497 14,007,635 13,138,069 869,566
The Swedish Post Office of our days is considered, on the whole,
as occupying a fairly high position in technical and administrative
respects. Its development during the last few decades is given
statistically in Tables. 157—159.
The length of postal lines, with regular highroad or railway
service, increased between 1868 and 1902 from 19,835 kilometers to 44,970
kilometers, viz., the highroad lines, from 18,250 kilometers to 32,885
kilometers, and the railway lines, from 1,585 km. to 12,085 kilometers.
To this may further be added the steamer lines, whose length it
is more difficult to calculate, but which was estimated, in 1902, at
14,265 km. With this addition, the total length of postal lines
amounted, in the year named, to 59,235 km., a figure which may be
remarked by the way pretty nearly to coincide with the total length of
all the roads of the kingdom. — The number of kilometers covered by
the mails is shown by Table 157. As will there be seen, nowadays no
less than 60 % of the total number of kilometers covered fall to the
share of the railroads, 16 % to transport by water, and but 24 % to the high
road-post.
The fixed or stationary post-offices, which still in 1815 amounted
to but 109, and in 1861 were 248, increased in number to an
extraordinary extent during 1874 and 1875 (cf. the historical summary
given above), running up in these two years from 576 to 1,844. At
the close of 1902 there were in the country 2,819 fixed post-offices,
of which 191 were head post-offices and 2,628 postal stations. At
the date last mentioned there were, besides, in activity on the railway
lines 274 traveling post-offices, of which 112 were managed by postal
clerks (post coupés), and 162 by subaltern officials (postilion coupés).
On the steamer postal lines the public were served, during the
sailing season of 1902, by 153 steamboat post-offices, intended, as a rule,
only for the transmission of ordinary letters, post cards and
parcels, besides which, on the Packets, keeping up communications on the
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