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event of their ceasing to appear; there are also entered in the list the changes
that have occurred as regards the publisher and place of publication, the number
of the editions, etc. This register, which at present fills six folio-volumes,
embraces 1 800 various printed publications and, even now, forms a basis for
the history of the Swedish periodical press during the last few decades. Finally,
may be mentioned the numerous regulations and instructions issued by the Post
Office Board during the period in question, in which are summarized and
supplemented older and newer regulations concerning the various branches of the
postal service, for the purpose of bringing about stability and uniformity in the
service. This work of codification gave rise 1912 in the "Postal regulation for
head post-offices and post coupes" which embraces instructions for the treatment
of the letters etc., transmitted, the newspaper department, the monetary accounts,
the stock taking, and statistics.
Central Post Office, Stockholm.
The Swedish Post Office of our days is considered, on the whole, to
have reached a very high standpoint, both in technical and administrative
respects. Its development during the last few decades is shown statistically
by Tables 132—134.
The length of postal lines, with regular highroad or railway service,
was estimated, during the final years of last century at 39 636 km, viz.,
the highroad lines at 29 059 km, and the railway lines at 10 577 km. To
this may further be added the steamer lines, whose length it is more
difficult to calculate, but which was estimated, in 1899, at 18 552 km. With
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