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postal 8brvice. 1005
Table 159. Letters, parcels, etc., of value. Total amounts.
Average for the years Articles insured.1 Kronor. Articles with trade charges.’ Kronor. Money orders.1 Kronor. Total. Kronor. Subscription money.* Kronor.
1866/70......................285,262,297 18,488 1,275,477 286,556,282 519,038
1871/75......................414,927,636 112,242 2,471,785 417,511,6*3 871,991
1876/80......................600,574,206 348,177 4,974,421 60S, 866,804 1,062,854
1881/85......................684,790,151 1,285,249 10,412,696 666,488,066 1,172,104
1886/90......................807,663,169 2,114,430 14,467,256 824,244,855 1,414,820
1891/95......................927,994,432 3,109,493 24,227,347 655,331,272 1,738,851
1896/00......................1,130,488,963 5,591,726 46,089,775 1,182,170,464 2,303,886
In 1900.......... 1,224,970,722 7,164,695 68,229,3% 1,300,364,813 2,652,886
» 1901.......... 1,251,378,528 7,964,888 78,775,163 1,338,118,576 2,805,326
. 1902.......... 1,178,108,412 8,922,617 86,664,356 1,273,685,385 2,878,506
statistical point of view we must remind the reader that, as regards the number
of letters, parcels, etc., the articles are as a rule counted but during one week
of every year, the annual figures being then obtained by multiplication.
The revenue and expenditure of the Post Office from the beginning
of 1866 is shown by Table 157. As may there be seen, the revenue
gives a surplus, even if it be to no very great amount. In most other
countries, too, the revenue and expenditure of the Postal Departments
usually pretty well balance each other: the English Post Office
distinguishes itself by a large net profit, while, on the other side, the
American suffers from a serious deficit.
As regards the administrative side, it may be mentioned that the
supreme direction of the postal system of Sweden is in the hands of
the General Post Office, which consists of a Postmaster General as chief,
and — including a representative for the Post Office Savings Bank —
of six other members. The permanent staff appointed at the General Post
Office numbers at present 41 officers, besides which the Board is aided
by 1 assistant for matters concerning the mail steamers, and about 60
unestablished clerks. In the different divisions of the Board there are
7 permanent and 7 extra porters, with fixed wages.
The number of persons employed in postal district administration,
at the fixed post-offices or on the postal lines, amounted at the close of
1902 to 8,070, amongst whom may be reckoned: 3 postal directors, 5
postal inspectors, 188 postmasters, 4 managers of united post- and
telegraph offices in Stockholm and Gothenburg, 34 controllers, 500 clerks,
1,163 auxiliary clerks (of which number 149 were temporary assistants,
receiving no salary), 2,628 managers of postal stations, 1,050 established,
703 extra, and 661 reserve postmen, 968 rural postmen and, for the sea
post, 11 persons for winter service, and 153 managers of the steamboat
post-offices.
1 Inland and for abroad. — * Inland and from abroad. — 3 Money of subscription
received by the Post for the account of newspapers and periodicals.
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