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x. internal communications.
the Central Post Office Building, Vasagatan, Stockholm, which was
completed in 1903.
The single steamer at present owned by the Post Office, the "Öland",
is valued at 125 000 kronor.
As regards the administration, it may be mentioned that a revision, to
a certain degree, of the central and local administration of the Post Office,
has been carried out from 1910, in connection with the adoption of a
revised scale of salaries of the officials of the Department. As early as 1893,
five Postal Inspectors were appointed, as intermediate authorities between
the Royal Post Office Board and the post masters. From the year 1910,
these district chiefs, whose number was then increased to six, and who
were given the title of Postal Directors, have had their positions more
firmly established, while their powers have been not a little increased.
The Kingdom, consequently, is at present divided into six postal districts,
entitled, the south, west, east, Stockholm, central, and north district.
For the time being, however, Malmö town and the post offices and postal
lines under the jurisdiction of the Malmö post office have been taken from
the south district and formed into a separate section. The postal director
is the representative of his district in relation to the public, and has to
attend to the rigths and interests of the Post Office in that district.
The members of the Royal Post Office Board are the Postmaster
General, as the head of the Post Office, and four Bureau Chiefs. In 1913,
the permanent staff under the Board amounted to 101 persons, 43 of
whom were women-clerks. In receipt of fixed salaries there are also:
1 assistant for the postal steamer, 6 men clerks and, lastly, 21 women
clerks for the sorting of the money orders. In the various divisions of the
Board, there were, at the date mentioned, altogether 19 permanent and 3
extra porters, besides 1 engine-man and 2 firemen.
In the service of the district- and local administration there were, in
1913, the following officials belonging to the higher grades: 6 postal
directors, 250 postmasters (6 of these posts were not yet filled, however),
6 chief controllers, 7 first controllers, and 52 controllers, 142 men- and
27 women chief-clerks, 830 men- and 260 women-clerks, in addition to
which 1 postal director at Malmö and 1 controller were placed on the
provisional budget. Besides this, there were, at the close of 1913, 453
assistant clerks, 197 of whom were women, and 100 so-called temporary
assistants, 88 of whom were women. The number of permanent post-office
porters and mail-drivers amounted to 2 300, the extra mail-drivers 680 and
the temporary assistants of corresponding grades 91.
Among the post-office staff in a wider meaning, must also be reckoned
managers of postal stations to a total of 3 136, of whom 450 were women; 155
managers of the steamboat post-offices; 2 097 rural postmen; 35 so-called box
postmen (whose duty it is to manage the local carriage of letters under certain
simpler forms in a number of villa-towns and suburban communities); 829
postmen on highway-lines; 1 427 sellers of stamps, 320 of whom were women,
and, finally, 11 persons forming the crew of the postal steamer, "Öland". The
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