Show November Is Xmas Mailing Month This Year 9 ear Public Urged to Mail Early to Insure Timely Delivery y of Xmas Parcels I Delivery of the annual flood of Christmas gifts and cards on time always a serious problem will be bemore bemore bemore more than a problem this year year year-It it will vIlI be an impossibility unless impossibility unless Christmas mailings are made largely large large- ly in November Postmaster General General General Gen Gen- eral Frank C. C Walker warned to toda to- to da day Transportation facilities are burdened burdened burdened bur bur- to the limit with war materials materials materials mate mate- rials and personnel and the Postal Service has sent more than thirty- thirty one thousand experienced employees employ employ- ees Into the Army and Nav Navy Mr Walker said The only solution to the Christmas problem Is MAIL IN NOVEMBER Mark your parcels DO NOT OPEN UNTIL CHRIST CHRIST- MAS That is the only way to avoid disappointment on Christmas Da Day not only for many civilians but also for or millions o of members of the armed forces who are still in this country It is also the only way to avoid the possibility o of a Christmas emergency emergency emergency emer emer- gency in the transportation anc and postal services If IC the public will cooperate by mailing their Christmas Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas parcels DURING NOVEMBER we ve can handle a small volume of ol light minute last-minute mailings such as cards up to December 10 but la-but but we can do that and avoid an emergency emergency emergency emer emer- gency only If November is really Christmas Mailing Month Postal officials pointed out that the volume of mail mali now is far above any previous records that railway cars by the hundreds have been diverted dl to war service and that the air lines have only about half hal as many planes as they once operated More than two hundred thousand extra temporary employees normally normally normally nor nor- mally are employed to help with the holiday postal rush This year the extra employees will be largely women and high school boys and girls who are unable to work the thelong thelong thelong long hours usually required and whose work will be relatively slow To deliver the Christmas mails on time therefore it is necessary that mailings be spread out over a longer long long- er period so that available transportation transportation trans trans- equipment and postal personnel can be used during more weeks It will vili be utterly Impossible to make the deliveries b by Christmas Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas if mailers wait until the last three weeks before the holiday as asin asin asin in normal years There is another reason for shopping and mailing earlier than ever before Retail stores are arc short- short handed Purchasers can avoid shopping shopping shopping shop shop- ping in crowded stores long waits for or service and other inconveniences inconveniences inconveniences of or late shopping if they buy now They w will vilI also doubtless have havea a better choice of merchandise than will be available later Postmaster General Walker observed observed observed ob ob- ob- ob served that his warning is not an attempt to tell the public what to todo todo todo do it is only an advance notification notification notification tion o of what will vilI happen if they i mail mall late He feels that the public is entitled to the facts and that when they know them they will decide to MAIL IN NOVEMBER |