Show Postal Notes An illustrated pamphlet Mail for Servicemen outlining the expanded expanded expanded ex ex- program for airlifting letters letters letters let let- packages and other military military military mili mili- tary mail overseas at low postal postal postal pos pos- tal rates is now available through Ephraim Post Office window clerks Postmaster CI Clifford ford H. H Sondrup Sondrup Sondrup Son- Son said that as a result of new legislation and action by President Johnson we are now airlifting more than 75 per cent of all mail going to the military men and women stationed abroad We hope this guide will help more American families be familiar with these services and use them The page eight-page pamphlet illustrates illustrates illustrates illus illus- three services for airlifting airlifting airlifting airlift airlift- ing parcels at rates the average family can afford the speedy service now available for newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- papers and news magazines to most overseas bases the special rates for books and similar educational educational educational edu edu- materials and how to tomail tomail tomail mail sound-recorded sound messages The guide also provides provides provides pro pro- vides parcel wrapping instructions instructions instructions information on the time it takes to reach Vietnam and other other other oth oth- oth- oth er overseas bases from major US U.S. cities and pointers on the correct way to address military mail A family sending a pound 10 package from Ephraim to Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam Viet Viet- nam for example pays only on n a package marked PAL while the air parcel rate for the same pa package kage is On parcels weighing less than 5 pounds it might be more advantageous advantageous advantageous ad ad- for a family to use the older SAM Space Available Mail service which provides surface transportation to the port of embarkation and airlift over over- seas A pound four-pound SAM package to a European military post from Ephraim costs only O On packages weighing under two pounds air parcel post is often the patrons patron's best buy for through airlift service the pamphlet suggests |