HC Deb 06 June 1989 vol 154 c73W
Mr. Bowis

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what information he has as to how many letters and what percentage of letters, posted first class, fail to arrive the following delivery day.

Mr. Forth

The Post Office's new end to end monitoring system, which records results separately for each district by destination, shows that for 1988–89 the percentage of first class letters not delivered the day after posting varied widely between districts. The range was:

per cent.
Delivery within district of posting 6–36
Delivery to neighbouring districts 8–41
Delivery to distant districts (excluding Belfast) 20–50

The detailed figures for each district, which were published by the Post Office on 25 May, have been placed in the Libraries.