The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance

CHAPTER VII. AMOUNT OF WORK. Correspondence. The amount of work performed by the Post-office in the transmission of letters and other articles of correspondence within the space of a year, may be gathered from the following figures, taken from the Postmaster-General's annual report issued in 1883:-- The Letters numbered, 1,280,636,200 Post-cards, 144,016,200 Books and circulars, 288,206,400 Newspapers, 140,682,600 ------------- Total, 1,853,541,400 =============