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post service.
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employed in the work of the post office. — On the steamer postal lines the
public were served, during the sailing season of 1913, by 155 steamboat
post-offices, intended, as a rule, only for the transmission of ordinary
letters, post-cards and book-post packets, besides which, on the steam
ferryboat that run between Trälleborg and Sassnitz, there were opened special
sea post-offices.
Of the 3 381 fixed post-offices existing in 1913, there were 702 in the five
northern läns, 321 in the läns of Kopparberg and Värmland, 554 in the remaining
districts of Svealand, 1 400 in Götaland, Skåne excluded, this last-named
province having 404. Thus, per thousand square km, there existed in these five
divisions of the country, 2’7, 6’6, 15’4, 17*2, and 35’8 fixed postal establishments
respectively. These relative figures are, of course, highest for the Län of
Malmöhus (48), and lowest for those of Norrbotten and Västerbotten (1"!).
The average for the whole Kingdom was 7’6.
The considerable increase of låte years in the number of fixed post-offices
within the Kingdom has, naturally, brought about successive reductions of the
size of the district which on an average is served by each such post-office and
also of the number of inhabitants per fixed post-office. For example, while, for
the quinquennial period 1866—70, it was calculated that the average district of
each post-office, measured in square kilometers, was 961*34 and, in number of
persons, 9 140; these figures in 1913 have fallen to 129’83 and 1 668. These
figures clearly illustrate to some extent the increased demands made by the
public on the Post Office. At the close of 1913, of the 2 376 country communes
of Sweden, 1 797, or 75’6 %, had one or more fixed post-offices within their limits.
The development of postal traffic, with regard to the total number of
letters and parcels, etc., dealt with, is shown by Table 133. For the
quinquennial periods 1876—1910, the average number of postal
communications per head of the average population amounted on an ave-
Table 133. Number of Letters, etc. sent by the Post. In millions.
4 Annually Sei Uninsured, liable charges Letters! | Po3t", cardsi it by lettt ,0 postal
Book-post1 r-post Uninsured post-free2 Insured letters3 [-Parcels4 Money-orders Newspapers-] {+Par- cels4 Money- orders News- papers+} and magazines (number copies) Total number of letters, etc., sent
1876-80 . . 31-00 0-71 2-40 0-37 0-51 0-34 0-18 22-83 5834
1881—85. . 41-28 2-98 4-44 0.61 0-73 0-39 0-41 31-03 81-87
1886—90 . . 51’79 5-11 5-41 1-11 1-04 0-51 0 62 4809 113 68
1891—95 . . 60-80 6-60 8-53 2-06 1-4-2 0-60 1-19 70-05 151 25
1896—00 . . 77-07 9-77 13-17 3-85 1-70 0-98 2-35 126-02 234 91
1901—05 . .. 101-21 41.07 20-78 5-67 2-12 1-65 3-91 170-60 347 01
1906-10 . . 127-71 40-78 37-03 6-41 343 3-80 664 174-35 400 15
1912 .... 153-16 41-21 56-29 5-40 392 5-89 1002 203-89 479-78
1913 .... 155-52 41-11 58-38 5’43 401 6-26 10-84 208-46 490-01
Rem. As regards the uninsured letter-post communications and numbered copies of
newspapers and magazines, the numbers given are the result of a calculation, made in
accordance with a certain method, while, on the other hand, insured letters, parcels, and
money orders are given in their actual numbers.
1 Inclusive of registered communications with C. O. D. charges. — a Chiefly official postal
communications. — s Incl. C. 0. D. — 1 Inclusive of uninsured and insured parcels C. 0. D.
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