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Show Christmas Package Mail Tips Offered To Public . Panguitch Postmaster Ingra Richards offers a number of tips on how to prepare Christmas parcelsfor mailing. A single item in a package should be cushioned with shredded paper, excelsior, compressed tissue paper, doth, or expanded plastic foam. If two or more items are mailed in the same carton box, cushioning material should protect all items from contact with each other, and each item should have its own individual wrapper. Cardboard containers, including large soap, cereal boxes, etc., larger than the gift being mailed should be cut down to about the size of the gift to minimize shaking annd breaking in transit Fragile articles must be Individually cushioned and all four sides of the container should be padded with cushioning material. Tape used to seal containers' should be durable and should cover or firmly secure all flaps. |