Deposits can be made by the intermediary of rural postmen to the extent of 500 florins. In this case the receipt and deposit certificates must be remitted to them with the sum; a provisional receipt is given which is replaced at the next round by the official receipt of the district post-office.

It will be interesting to show the importance to which this mode of arranging deposits has now attained.

There is at the Central Office at Vienna a printing office which permanently employs 16 workmen, exclusively engaged in printing cheques and certificates of receipts and deposits. Six million of the latter kind of certificates are now annually printed and the number of them printed since the setting up of this system in 1883 amounts to 107 millions. An office for the verification and control of the printed matter is connected with this workshop. As to the amount of payments made through these certificates to the accounts of holders the 12th Report enables us to give the statistics.

At the opening of the year 1883 the sums paid into the funds of the account holders, by means of the Empfang erlag schein amounted to 322,284 florins.

They rose successively:

In1884to43,748,349florins.
»1885»217,109,144»
»1886»361,466,434»
»1887»442,138,414»
»1888»446,874,084»
»1889»517,734,775»
»1890»592,089,250»
»1891»663,221,494»
»1892»731,325,411»
»1893»811,318,663»
»1894»889,793,808»
»1895»969,479,217»

The annual growth has been during the later years about 70 to 80 millions of florins. It moves at a regular pace.