Postal services

Postal services: offices, mail and finances. As named, annual, 2013–2025.

Published by the Department of Post; read from CBSL Economic and Social Statistics.

Main post offices (no.)648−0.6%
Sub post offices (no.)3,285−2.1%
Agency post offices (no.)1320.0%
Delivery areas (no.)8,175+0.2%
Area served by a post office (sq. km.)16.14+2.0%
Population served by a post office5,352.02+1.1%
Letters per inhabitant12.7+118.2%
Domestic mail, '000 - letters162,043+82.6%
Domestic mail, '000 - post cards8,911+1375.3%
Domestic mail, '000 - newspapers & printed materials20,748+960.2%
Domestic mail, '000 - insured831+2086.8%
Domestic mail, '000 - registered35,332+1.5%
Parcels - parcels (ordinary) paid685+21.5%
Parcels - parcels (ordinary) other5−58.3%
Foreign mail (outward), '000 - sea - small packets / parcels0.06+47.6%
Foreign mail (outward), '000 - air - letters796+7.6%
Foreign mail (outward), '000 - air - post cards594+35.6%
Foreign mail (outward), '000 - air - newspapers & magazines27+22.7%
Foreign mail (outward), '000 - air - U packets123−33.9%
Foreign mail (inward), '000 - sea - letters0.43−46.9%
Foreign mail (inward), '000 - sea - newspapers & magazines0.38−51.8%
Foreign mail (inward), '000 - air - letters570+4.6%
Foreign mail (inward), '000 - air - post cards110+685.7%
Foreign mail (inward), '000 - air - newspapers & magazines56+19.1%
Foreign mail (inward), '000 - air - e-packets0.16−82.4%
Foreign mail (inward), '000 - air - express41+720.0%
Foreign mail (inward), '000 - air - U packets864−68.8%
Domestic mail, '000 - express ended653+47.4%
Foreign mail (outward), '000 - sea - letters ended1−83.3%
Foreign mail (outward), '000 - sea - post cards ended0.38−87.4%
Foreign mail (outward), '000 - sea - newspapers & magazines ended0.12−88.0%
Foreign mail (outward), '000 - air - aerogrammes ended1−87.5%
Foreign mail (outward), '000 - air - small packets / parcels ended21+425.0%
Foreign mail (inward), '000 - sea - post cards ended1−50.0%
Foreign mail (inward), '000 - sea - small packets / parcels ended0.05−99.3%
Foreign mail (inward), '000 - air - small packets / parcels ended1,805−3.5%

Main post offices (no.)

as named, annual. 2025: 648, −0.6% on a year earlier

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Published by the Department of Post; read from CBSL Economic and Social Statistics.

* Calculated by Macro Lab from the published values.