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Show Public Responding Well In Early Mail Campaign Public response to the Post Office Of-fice Department's "Shop Now! Mail In November" campaign is good but needs to be better, according to Postmaster General Frank C. Walker. "Extraordinary wartime conditions condi-tions face us," Mr. Walker said. "Unless more people buy and mail this month the Postal service cannot can-not do its job of delivering all Christmas gifts on time. "It is not pleasing to us to have to ask the American people to mail packages so far in advance of the delivery date. We do so only because it has to be done. The job is a tremendous one, but we are confident that it will be done because we know from experience ex-perience that given sound reasons Americans cooperate magnificently. magnificent-ly. "Unprecedented shortages o f man power and transportation facilities fa-cilities growing out of the war compel early mailing. The Postal Service has given 50,000 experienced experien-ced employees to the armed forces and 300,000 railroad workers have gone to war. Equally serious is the fact that rail and other transport, trans-port, facilities are taxed to the limit with the great burden of war traffic which all of us know must take precedence. "In a great number of our 43,000 post offices the man power situation situa-tion is critical. The 200,000 extra workers whom we normally' recruited re-cruited to handle the swollen Christmas volume of mail were able to work long hours of overtime over-time and to do heavy work. This cannot be expected from the women wo-men and high school boys and girls to whom in large part we must look this year lo meet the situation. "The way in which everyone responded res-ponded in making it possible for us to handle a volume of 70.0no.000 parcels for the armed forces overseas over-seas leaves no douht. in my mind that the November Christmas mailing mail-ing will he equally successful. I ask for the help of the press, radio, ra-dio, business advertisers, civic groups and all Americans in making mak-ing it possible for the Postal Service Ser-vice to do its work. "We urge everyone to buy now, mail in November and mark gifts 'Do Not Open Until Christmas'." |