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638 x. internal communications.
Table 132. Postal Service. Revenue and Expenditure.
Annually Thousands of kilometers covered by the mails Revenue and expenditure kronor
On
highroads By
railway By water Total Revenue Expenditure Surplus
1871-75 . . 1876-80 . . 1881—85 . . 1886—90 . . 1891—95 . . 1896-00 . . 1901—0.) . . 1906-10 . . 6 286 6 858 6 131 6 764 7184 7 831 9 847 11928 3 973 7 710 10 221 13 206 16 045 19 543 24 136 27 688 4 319 5 364 6 444 7 243 6 859 6 561 6 930 18 887 21716 26 414 30 472 34 233 40 544 46 546 3 222 687 4 725 803 5 825 174 6 656 773 8 013 648 10 411164 15 336 962 19 965 403 3 256 257 4 737 061 5 167 060 6 427 723 7 457 183 9 470 849 13 855 343 18 301 555 (—) 33 570 (-) 11 258 658114 229 050 556 465 940 315 1 481 619 1 663 848
1912 .... 1913 .... 13 117 13 269 28 765 29 190 6 877 7 OO0 48 759 49 459 24 664 894 25 707 141 1 20 917 042 1 al 474 095 3 747 852 4 233 046
1 This does not include the costs of capital-increase.
this addition, the total length of postal lines amounted, in the year named,
to 58 188 km, a figure which, by the way, very nearly coincides with the
total length of all the roads of the kingdom. Since the above date,
the calculated length of the postal lines has probably been doubled. In
1913 it amounted to 108 810 km of which 46 155 km are on
country-roads, 14 316 km on the railways, and 48 339 km on the waterways. It
must be noticed, however, that the apparent considerable increase by the
last-named figures depends, almost exclusively, on the foreign lines with
their very limited postal-traffic (see below). — The number of kilometers
covered by the mails is shown by Table 132. As is shown there, nowadays
not less than 59 % of the total number of postal carriage kilometers falls
to the railways; 27 °/o to the country-road postal service; and 14 % to the
water postal transport.
The fixed post offices, which, as låte as 1815, numbered only 109, and
in 1861, 248, increased exceedingly in number during the years 1874 and
1875 (cf. the historical review above), as in these two years they rose
from 576 to 1 844. Apart from a temporal fall at the close of the
"seventies", the result of a considerable number of post offices being then
closed in consequence of their functions being performed by postal
distribution by means of the rural postal distribution established in 1877, the
number of the fixed post offices has been growing steadily in number. At
the close of 1913, there were in the country 3 381 fixed post-offices, of
which 245 were head post-offices and 3 136 postal stations. In 1877 there
were, besides, in activity on the railway lines 329 travelling post-offices
(post coupés), of which 47 (corresponding to the old "postal-coupé offices")
were managed by postal clerks and not less than 282 (corresponding to the
old "postillion coupés") by subordinate officials. In 1899, the number
of ambulatory post offices of the former kind amounted to 107, and of the
latter kind 121. The modified proportion has its explanation in the
endeavour to diminish more and more the number of over-qualified officials
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