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Show Christmas Rush Reaches New High At S, L. Post Office Now that we are heading directly di-rectly into the Christmas mail rush, Postmaster Trevithick put his "Mail Early for Christmas" campaign into high gear this week. The postmaster said, "We are ready for an all time record Christmas mail this year. Every facility of the past office has been expanded to render maximum maxi-mum service. Spceial mailing schedules have been set up to insure prompt handling of the tremendous flood of both incoming incom-ing and outgoing mail which is expected to start this week. Approximately Ap-proximately 850 additional employees em-ployees will be hired within the next few days to assist regular employees in moving the millions mil-lions of pieces of mail which must be delivered before Dec. 25. Mail volume at this time of the year is only part of our problem. prob-lem. Too often names and addresses ad-dresses are carelessly written, packages are poorly wrapped, or have insufficient postage on them. These oversights result in delays and disappointments that can be avoided if everyone will observe the following rules: Be sure your Christmas card and gift mailing lists are up-to-date. Wrap Christmas gifts securely secure-ly and use proper endorsements such as fragile, perishable, etc. Address your cards and gifts correctly. Use the complete address. ad-dress. Avoid abbreviations of street and state names. Use zone numbers wherever possible, and be sure to include your own zone number in your return address. Separate Christmas cards into Local and Out. of Town bundles, and, tie securely. "Do It Now!" is the slogan for the "Mail Early for Christmas" campaign. Starting Saturday the post office will remain open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. |