Q-Post stamps sales soar
Postal and revenue stamps sale in Qatar during the last quarter of 2006 witnessed a huge rise compared with the previous three months, a Q-Post report said.
Stamps worth QR 7.51mn were sold in the last quarter of 2006 against QR 6.26mn the earlier quarter, the report said.
While the Q-Post collected QR 3.44mn through postal stamps sale, revenue stamps accounted for QR 4.02mn.
The figures do not include sales at the General Post Office. Among the other post offices, the Labour Department branch sales accounted for QR 2.79million. In the previous quarter, the sale at the office stood at QR 2.15mn.
1 British Pound = 7.42998 Qatari Rial
1 US Dollar = 3.64040 Qatari Rial
