Letters and parcels

Postal and courier services deliver letters and printed items, and parcels and courier packages. The chart shows how many of each were delivered per year. The source states no unit; the values look like thousands, so the unit is assumed to be thousand items.

In 2024 the table shows 8,713.7 letters and printed items and 5,642.7 parcels and packages. Parcels are about 65% of the letters volume, while in 2016 they were only 22.

Parcels were at most 22 until 2016, reached 114.1 in 2017 and 5,642.7 in 2024, the highest of the years shown. They did not rise every year (3,237.9 in 2021, 3,056.3 in 2022). Letters stayed between 3,443.9 (2010) and 7,423.6 (2014) until 2016, reached 15,183.4 in 2017 and were 8,713.7 in 2024, the lowest since 2017.

Both series jump between 2016 and 2017 (letters from 6,263.1 to 15,183.4, parcels from 22 to 114.1). The source gives no reason, so compare the years before and after 2017 with care.