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This page presents selected traffic statistics, supplementing
the Communications Revolution profile
and the Metrics & Statistics guide.
It covers -
telegraph
An indication of telegraph network traffic in the US is
provided by the following figures from the US Census Bureau
Historical Statistics -
| Date |
Messages
(million) |
| 1870
1880
1890
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940
1945
1950
1960
1970 |
9.158
29.216
55.879
63.168
75.135
155.884
211.971
191.645
236.169
178.904
124.319
69.679 |
post
Andrew Odlyzko's superb The history of communications
and its implications for the Internet (PDF)
reports that the number of items carried by the US mail
service rose from 0.8 million in 1790 to 155 million in
1850, 7,130 million in 1900, 45,000 million in 1950 and
207,882 in 2000. The Universal Postal Union (UPU) reports
that globally some 425 billion postal
items were carried domestically in 2002, with 28 'industrialised'
countries accounting for over 80% of that traffic. 6.7
billion items were carried across national borders.
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