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Show uu WRAPPING PARCELS FOR PARCEL POST "Christmas is getting dangerously or happily near, according to the way vou take it." said Assistant Postmas ter Rufus Garner this morning and "with its approach, our worries increase. in-crease. The postoffice department is desirous of delivering every piece of mail placed in its hands for delivery before Christmas and in this work asks the aid of the public." Asked to give some suggestions as to how the public could lessen the work of the postal clerks through the rush season, Mr. Garner continued: 'Wrap all parcels securely in strong, serviceable paper and do not seal them. Give full address, city, street and number and If on one corner cor-ner of a street intersection, designate desig-nate which corner (SW-SE-NW-NE). Do not place Red Cross seals on address ad-dress side and remember that Red Cross seals are not good for postage. In all cases place the name and address ad-dress of the sender in the upper left-hand left-hand corner on the address side of the parcels. Be sure the parcel is weighed and state whether it is ordinary or-dinary or registered mail. These 'little 'lit-tle things' will also apply to first-class first-class mail and if complied with will greatly accelerate the dispatch and delivery de-livery of mall. It Is specially Important Import-ant that Red Cross seals oe Kept off tne address side of foreign mail, as it will not be accepted for delivery by the foreign carriers." Speaking of the plans being made at the local office for the holiday rush, the assistant postmaster stated that the same system in vogue last year would again prevail. At the parcel post window, there will be a supply of pre-cancelled stamps on hand and all that the sender will have to do is to pay the amount of postage required, receive a receipt and make way for the next party. The stamps will be placed on the parcels by postoffice clerks and In this way a congested condition before the windows will be avoided in a great measure. In regard to fragile and breakable articles, Mr. Garner said that these should be tightly packed to Insure their delivery In good condition. An incident, he said, that brought the necessity ne-cessity for this home to the local post-office post-office force lately was in the case of Thanksgiving chicken which had been stuffed Avlth raw eggs by the sender. Not being securely packed, the eggs were broken, &oaked through the packing and onto several other packages of mail. |