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will probably be about one-half of those passed through the London Office. Say |
47,300 | |
| Making the whole number of franks per week | 142,000 | |
| Or, per annum | 7,384,000 |
Estimate of the Number of Newspapers passed through the Post Offices of the United Kingdom in a Year.
| The number of newspapers dispatched by the London Post Office, per week, is, at the present time, about | 305,000[1] |
| The number published in London is, probably, about 500,000 per week; consequently three in five are dispatched by the Post Office. | |
| The number of provincial papers published is probably about 900,000 per week; the proportion distributed through the provincial Post Offices, including those of Dublin and Edinburgh, is probably about three in ten; the number will therefore be about | 270,000 |
| Making the whole number of newspapers passed through all the Post Offices of the United Kingdom per week | 575,000 |
| Or, per annum | 29,900,000 |
| Say | 30,000,000 |
No. 5.
ESTIMATE OF THE REVENUE WHICH WOULD BE DERIVED FROM THE POST OFFICE UNDER THE PROPOSED ARRANGEMENTS, ASSUMING
- The number of chargeable letters to remain as at present.
- That it increase two-fold.
- ↑ This number is rapidly increasing.
