----------
Total [L]3,674,950

In addition, the annual cost of the War Bonus granted in 1915 is
estimated at [L]1,080,000.

[95]

----------+-------------------------
| Percentage of Salaries,
Year. | Wages, etc., to Total
| Revenue.
----------+-------------------------
1880-1 | 28.39
1890-1 | 35.78
1900-1 | 45.30
1905-6 | 45.34
1909-10 | 49.09
1910-11 | 47.61
1911-12 | 49.20
1912-13 | 47.88
1913-14 | 47.04
----------+-------------------------

[96] The increase is partly accounted for by the fact that parcels are
included in the later figures. Deducting the estimated cost of the
parcel post (see _infra_, Chapter VII), the cost for staff for packets
other than parcels was, in 1913-14, some .340d. per packet.

[97] Omitting the cost of conveyance of mails by sea, and omitting the
cost of conveyance of parcels by railway, which is fixed by the Parcel
Post Act of 1882. The following table shows the movement of the general
cost of conveyance of mails:--

------------+-------------+------------------------------------
| | Percentage of Cost of Conveyance
Year. | Cost of | of Mails by Road and Rail to Total
| Conveyance. | Revenue (excluding Cost of
| | Conveyance of Parcels by Railway).
------------+-------------+------------------------------------
1880-1 |[L]921,093 | 16.17
1890-1 | 1,273,894 | 12.62
1900-1 | 1,519,219 | 11.26
1905-6 | 1,710,891 | 10.68
1910-11 | 1,812,505 | 9.18
1913-14 | 1,940,735 | 8.85

[98] Assuming there is no loss on the Parcel Post. If there is such
loss, the cost per packet other than a parcel would be reduced (see
_infra_, Chapter VII).

[99] The general increase of wages partly accounts for this (see p. 34,
opposite). The cost of working is, however, higher in the larger offices
(where the bulk of postal work is done) than in the smaller offices, and
tends to be highest in the largest offices. The matter is complicated by
the fact that higher scales of pay are in force in the larger towns.

[100]

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| Percentage of Total Expenditure to
| Tot