The peak for Royal Mail deliveries was in 2005-06 when some 84 million items were delivered every working day.
Jersey Post says it expects to deliver more than four million items by Christmas Eve, 10% higher than the previous year.
There are 3, 000 of these futuristic reverse vending machines dotted around Denmark, through which 3 million items are deposited every day.
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The logistics of trying to collect 5 million items without having such a network would almost certainly eat away all potential profit.
Today Suning nationwide has 1, 700 stores and offers shoppers a million items.
The Aspect catalog serves up intricate details on each of 10 million items, with up to 15 design notes that require constant updating.
"Even though libraries have been very badly served, there are still 320 million visits a year, with 300 million items borrowed, " said Mr Gibbons.
The increase means that in the last decade the number of prescriptions dispensed in Wales is up by 57.9%, a rise of 26.7 million items.
There was believed to be a backlog of more than a million items of unsorted mail as a result of the action which began last Thursday.
The missing mail - a fraction of the 50 million items collected, sorted and delivered in Wales over the festive period - was discovered on 15 December.
Mobile also attracted over 4.3 million new users to eBay in 2012, prompting sellers to list almost 2 million items per week from their smartphones on eBay.
Amazon said the number of items ordered on its busiest day, Dec. 10, rose about 35% to 5.4 million items from "roughly" 4 million items during its busiest holiday shopping day last year.
With the huge increase in interest and accessibility of network applications and network gaming, over 27 million accounts have registered to PlayStation Network, the free-to-access interactive environment, and over 560 million items have been downloaded.
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Additionally, the Seattle-based e-retailer has also announced that the 2012 holiday season was their best ever, with over 26.5 million items ordered worldwide on its peak day, selling a record-breaking 306 items per second.
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With sellers now listing 2 million items per week from their smartphones on eBay and the quarter spanning the holiday season, we expect the gross merchandise volume and the number of active users to continue the strong growth from the third quarter.
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"Starting with over 2 million items, each with its own special story and significance, the Digital Public Library of America will now begin to assemble the riches of our country's libraries, archives, and museums, and connect them with the public, " executive director Dan Cohen wrote on the library's website Thursday.
At any given time, she says, the site hosts 102 million auctions, with 6 million new items posted every day.
The Packard Campus is funded as a gift to the nation by the Packard Humanities Institute and is home to more than six million collection items.
Currently tracking more than 360, 000 restaurant locations, 110, 000 unique menus and 16.3 million restaurant menu items, the company will be launching Food Genius Reports in early winter 2013.
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The research at Williamsburg over the decades has yielded more than 50 million fragments of items, a 500, 000-piece trove of collected items and a network of museums under Chief Curator Ronald Hurst's direction that includes the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, the Wallace Museum and cafe, and the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum.
The company says it has more than 97 million active users worldwide, approximately 200 million live product listings and more than 10 million new and deleted items daily.
Consumers buy over two million UglyDolls-branded items annually.
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Leading the way were five fancy colored diamonds, one white diamond and an emerald all exceeding the million-dollar mark with four items smashing top pre-sale estimates.
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The Cambridge, UK-based company reported pre-tax second quarter earnings before items of 54.2 million pounds, or 2.98 pence per share, up 27% over the year-ago quarter.
And by January 1, 2014, it has agreed to collect taxes on items shipped to the 49 million residents of Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, Tennessee and Virginia, meaning more than half of Americans will be charged tax on their Amazon purchases.
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Earnings before interest and taxes fell 70%, to 27.3 million pounds, 15 million pounds short of interest expenses (before exceptional items).
Nacho Cheese Doritos Locos Tacos has been one of the biggest new menu items in recent times, with Taco Bell selling more than 300 million of the tacos with flavored shells since their introduction in March.
Profits before taxes and one-time items for the U.K.-based company came to 47.6 million pounds, above the Street consensus at 42 million pounds.
While others spend million on machines with complicated acronyms, the beauty of Ramachandran's work is that he uses ordinary items such as mirrors, pens and paper.
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