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Show S. L. Postmaster Launches 'Mail Early' Campaign ; may include your signature only and will not be forwarded or returned. It is not only socially correct but extremely helpful to both the post office and those on your mailing lists in include your return re-turn name and address on every Christmas card envelope. The Postmaster emphasized the importance of planning your Christmas mailings so that those cards and gifts for most distant points are mailed first. Special effort should be made to get all of your out of town packages and cards into the post office before Dec. 10. Those for nearby points will arrive before Christmas Christ-mas Eve if they are mailed by Dec. 15. Postmaster D. R. Trevithick ' announced his annual "Mail Early for Christmas" Campaign this week and outlined his plans for insuring delivery of all gifts and cards by Christmas Eve. "We've found from past experience ex-perience that the two biggest factors in successfully handling the Christmas mail rush are to get our post office facilities into high gear from every standpoint and second, and most important, to have the full cooperation of the mailing public." He then offered some helpful suggestions by stating, "It's not too soon to start checking your Christmas gift and card lists very carefully, making sure that each address includes full name, street and number, city, zone and state.". He also said, "Early Christmas shoppers should stock up now on heavy wrapping paper, pa-per, adhesive tape, to insure a secure wrapping of Christmas gifts. Buy stamps for your cards now, before the rush, and thus avoid those lost minute Christmas Christ-mas mailing headaches." Predicting that this year's Christmas mail will, set a new all time record the Postmaster especially directed his appeal to the "lady of the house" for cooperation co-operation on his "Mail Early for Christmas" campaign. She's the one who usually selects cards,' buys most of the gifts and sees to it that the Christmas mailing lists are up to date. For guidance on your Christmas Christ-mas gift mailings he suggested that you secure Pamphlet No. 2 at the post office, Which gives you helpful detailed information. The post office also provides free labels which read, "All for Local Delivery" and "All for Out of Town Delivery," so that you can sort your cards into twoj groups before you mail them. The postmaster suggested the use of four cent" or seven cent air male postage on your cards. This enables you to include the hand written messages on these cards, and also cards sent by first class are subject to forwarding for-warding or return service, if necessary, whereas cards that are mailed at the three cent rate |
