The 2006/07 financial year was our strongest year for domestic letter volume growth since the 1990s, with an overall increase of 1.9 per cent (or 93.1 million letters). Once again, most of that growth was in promotional mail, with transactional mail remaining relatively flat and social mail continuing to decline slightly.
Direct mail volumes increased by 8 per cent this year (compared with 6 per cent last year). A 1.9 per cent increase in total domestic letter volumes created revenue growth of 1.2 per cent. Unaddressed Mail volumes increased by 11.4 per cent and PreSort letter volumes, with growth driven by direct mail, grew by 4.1 per cent. Overall revenue growth for the letters & associated products business was 1.7 per cent. This is a significant achievement, as our basic postage rate has been frozen since 2003 – despite substantial increases in wages, fuel and other costs. As the table below left shows, Australia enjoys one of the most inexpensive letters services in the world. 
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