Answer: The answer to this question comes from a sentence published in a Vatican Notes article found in the January/February 1970 issue (Volume XVIII, Issue 4, Page 3):

"Although no one seems to know the volume of outgoing Vatican mail in these years, Ernest Kehr reported about 1958 that the daily volume then was 250,000 pieces per day."

I have searched several times for information concerning Vatican City mail volumes and found nothing. I read with some of the Rome citizens prefer to use the Vatican Post Office because it is more reliable than the Italian Post Office. I also read where all Vatican City mail is turned over to the Italian Post Office.

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