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Show Christmas Mail Volume Heavy According to the local postmaster, it Is doubtful whether any one really anticipated the volume of mail that would develop when the publicity broke asking relatives and friends of our boys in the armed forces a-broad a-broad to mall their parcels before November 1. Then came the deluge! Our soldiers' Christmas came early this year at ull the pivotal points of dispatch from the United States and especially at New York, Seattle and San Francisco. Some conception of the downpour can be gathered from the fact that the new Postal Concentration Unit covering about 50,000 square feet had just been opened in one of the large buildings in San Francisco. This space, however, how-ever, proved to be entirely too small. To care for the overflow and to prevent pre-vent piling and working the mail In the streets, a portion of one ol the waterfront piers was leased from the Navy department. The primary work of distribution was handled there, it is still uncertain how long this Christmas mall for soldiers will continue pouring into the coast post, offices, but it Ls believed that Christmas Christ-mas mail for the armed forces will continue to llow right up to the eve of Christmas and ixrhaps beyond. It would therefore appear that not a few of our boys on foreign fronts will receive their Christmas presents some time early next spring! To avoid this condition on the "home front" every effort should be made toward having all Christmas Christ-mas mutter mailed In time for delivery de-livery before Christmas. During tlis coming Christmas period the necessity neces-sity for mailing earlier than formerly former-ly ls most imperative. Mailings should begin at least 20 to 25 days before Christmas, depending on destination. des-tination. The number of postal em ployees available for distributing and delivering mall will be seriously serious-ly reduced and the mail transportation transporta-tion facilities drasticully curtailed because of the war. |
