IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0813 POST 19 Series
Held at: British Postal Museum and Archive: The Royal Mail Archive
Title: Post Office: Postal Business Statistics
Date(s): 1839-2001
Level of description: Series
Extent: 440 volumes and 48 files
Name of creator(s):
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CONTEXT
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CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
This Post Class contains statistics relating to Post Office business, including returns of delivered, posted and registered mails, 1839-1913; comparative summaries of annual returns of work and staff hours from Head Post Offices in the United Kingdom, covering 1923-1966; returns of work and staff on Travelling Post Offices and Sorting Carriages, 1951-1974; and postal business key performance statistics, 1973-1985. Also includes statistics relating to Quality of Service (1985-1989 and 1992).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The material is arranged in chronological order within series.
Conditions governing access:
Public Record
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
For items relating to methods of compiling and presenting postal statistics see Post Class 8.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry checked by Barbara Ball
Compiled in compliance with General Internation Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G) second edition 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997
Date(s) of descriptions: Entry checked June 2011