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Show Postmasters Says to Mail for Xmas Early Robert Cornaby, postmaster at the local post office brought up a mailing bulletin which shows that you should mail treated a little better than civilian mail, as they try to get it to the boys in the service, and you can generally add a tew days to the time you would mail to your soldier. However, don't forget, anything can foul up and a few days ahead of time is better than a few days late and not getting the mail through until after Christmas. I suspect also that the post office has added lag time to the time it actually takes to get the mail through, and based on experience ex-perience I would suspect they are right. Lag time is generally there when you doln't want it to be. early and when to get your mail to missionaries, soldiers or other people living around the world. That is, if you want it to arrive before or on Christmas. The following is an excerpt taken from the bulletin and if you want to know more specifically than I have selected, call the local post office. After all, what more is there for them to do during the day than answer your questions. Surface mail should be mailed before Dec. 15, with parcels by Dec. 10 to get to the 48 states. Airmails will get there if mailed by Dec. 21, both for letters and for parcels. Alaska and Hawaii, show basically the same time as the other 48 states, - except on parcels for surface mail, back up to Nov. 30 and on Air mail, back up one day to Dec. 20. International mail, should be mailed as early as Oct. 25 for surface and parcels to the Far East and the time gradually drops closer to Christmas from these dates to Dec. 2 and 8 for Canada and Mexico., Surface and surface parcels should be gotten off in early November for South and Central America , Europe, Africa and the Near East, and by Dec. 9 to 19 for the same places for air greeting carfs and air parcels. Military mail is generally |