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1004 xiii. communications of sweden.
Table 158. Letters, parcels, etc., mailed. In millions.
Average for the years Ordinary letters, parcels, etc. Valuables. Total.
Inland. [-International.»-] {+Interna- tional.»+} Total. Island. [-International.*-] {+Interna- tional.*+} Total. Inland. [-International.-] {+Interna- tional.+} • Total.
1876/80.. ... 48-69 764 5«18 2-63 046 3 09 6122 800 SHS
1881/85..............65-96 11-94 77-90 3-88 0-68 3-96 69-29 12-67 8186 i
1886/90................92 28 16 52 108 75 411 0 82 4 93 96 84 17 84 113 68 1
1891/95...........124 80 20 22 14462 571 101 «72 180-01 2128 ISlM
1896/00................200-98 24 48 225 41 814 186 «49 209 07 25 88 j 23490
In 1900....... 23511 27 99 2«3 l0 9-24 148 10 72 244*36 2947 j 27J-8S
» 1901....... 258 24 31 76 28»-99 1000 1 66 11-66 268*24 33-41 I Ml 65
» 1902....... 292-18 30-40 322-58 10 82 1 68 11 95 302 50 32-03 I 334-68 1
sea post-line Trelleborg—Sassnitz, there was a special sea post-office
at work.
Of the 2,819 fixed post-oßces existing in 1902, there were 515 in the five
northern Läns, 274 in the Läns of Kopparberg and Vermland, 476 in the remaining
districts of Svealand, 1,199 in Götaland, Skåne not included, which last-named
province had 355. Thus, per thousand sq. km., there existed in these five
divisions of the country, 2-o, 5-6, 13-3, 14 7, and 31’5 fixed postal establishments.
These relative figures are, of course, highest for the Län of Malmöhus (40-s), and
lowest for that of Vesterbotten (l-o). The average for the whole kingdom was 6-4.
The development of postal traffic, with regard to the total number
of letters and parcels, etc., dealt with, is shown by Table 158. For the
quinquennial periods 1876/1900 the average number of postal packets per
head of the average population amounted to 13, 18, 24, 31 and 47
annually: for 1902 the figure was 64. Compared with that of the rest
of Europe, the postal traffic of Sweden, in relation to the population
takes, perhaps, a middling position — being, on the one side, much
higher than that of East-European countries, but on the other hand,
by no means reaching the heights attained by that of the great
industrial and commercial nations, for it is a matter of general
observation that to a highly developed commercial life, in the first place,
the increase of postal traffic is due. — In the city of Stockholm the
total number of letters, etc., delivered in 1902, amounted to about 340
per head of the population. No less than 74 % of this number
consisted of newspapers, the corresponding figure for the whole country
being 53 %.
Of the total number of letters, parcels, etc. passing through the Post Office
in 1902, there were 95-27 mill, ordinary letters, 41-28 mill, post-cards, l"’8o
mill, book-post articles, 167-»s mill, copies of newspapers and magazines, 4 46
mill, registered articles, 2-os mill, insured letters, parcels, etc., l’oi mill, articles
with trade charges, 3*48 mill, money orders, etc. The conveyance of newspapers by
post presents an enormous growth; in 1868 the number of copies was but 5 T5
millions, but amounted in 1902, as we have seen, to 168 millions. — From a
* Letters, parcels, etc., arrived and dispatched, together.
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