8 - The Post Office and Savings Banks The number of letters, postcards, and similar items sent by post was 87,000,000, an increase of 6.5% compared to the previous year.

The number of parcels handled by the Post Office was 1,069,715, an increase of approximately 41,000 parcels compared to the previous year. Parcels arriving from Great Britain continue to be in a deplorable condition because the British Post Office sends them in burlap sacks instead of boxes. The number of parcels that arrived in a bad condition in Cairo alone was 165.

The value of domestic money orders was £E 5,443,611, an increase of 2% compared to the previous year. The value of money orders sent to foreign countries was £E 585,774, a decrease of £E 5,727. The apparent reason for the decrease is financial difficulty. However, foreign money orders received and cashed amounted to £E 134,472, an increase of £E 634. The value of British postal orders, both issued and received, increased to £E 54,199 and £E 14,762 respectively, compared to £E 49,402 and £E 12,896 in the previous year.

The revenue of the department was £E 334,759 and its expenses were £E 294,885.

The number of parcels sent with value declared and received from Great Britain increased satisfactorily to 12,882 parcels, valued at £E 20,003, compared to 10,635 parcels valued at £E 16,933 in the previous year. Ordinary parcels numbered 10,741, valued at £E 15,521, compared to 976 parcels valued at £E 1,391. There is still ample room for progress in this area. The British Chamber of Commerce in Alexandria and the Director-General of the Egyptian Post Office have frequently drawn attention to the fact that British merchants still refuse to send their goods in parcels with value declared, either on the pretext that sending parcels in this manner is not feasible or because the risk of the recipients refusing to accept the parcels is high. In reality, the percentage of parcels with value declared that were refused does not exceed one percent.

The Post Office issued new stamps in 1914, which were well received in Egypt and abroad.