TABLE D
COST OF STAFF AND BUILDINGS.
In the examination of proposals for revisions of staff and accommodation at post offices, the whole work of the offices is reduced to a common denominator for each chief division of the work, and is stated in terms of that denominator.
Thus all indoor work is reduced to and expressed in terms of units representing the work in connection with 1,000 letters posted and delivered, the term "letter" in this connection covering all packets sent by post other than parcels. There are no ratios for the separate classes of "letters."
All outdoor work is reduced to and expressed in terms of a unit of 1,000 letters (posted and delivered), i.e. the complete service.
For office accommodation the unit is 1,000 letters posted or delivered, whichever is the greater number at the office in question.
Certain ratios are taken for the expression in terms of letters of the various divisions into which the work performed by the post office falls.
As between letters and parcels the ratios are as follow:—
Units Ratios.
| Value in Letters. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indoor Work. | Outdoor Work. | Office Accommodation. | |||
| Letter | posted | ⅗ | — | }{ | 1 (whichever is the greater traffic) |
| " | delivered | ⅖ | 1 | ||
| " | forwarded | ⅓ | — | ½ | |
| " | collected | — | x | — | |
| Parcel | posted | 6 | — | 6 | |
| " | delivered | 6 | 10 | 6 | |
| " | forwarded | 4 | — | 6 | |
| " | collected | — | 10x | — | |