| Show overseas mailing period sept 15 to oct 15 save strong string and box material and start to plan shopping postmaster general frank C walker advises americans in announcing the rules for mailing of christmas gifts for army and navy personnel overseas this year the christmas mailing period for both army and overseas forces is the same september 15 to october 15 after october no gift parcel may be mailed to a soldier without presentation of a written request from him the great demands upon shipping and the need for giving preference to arms munitions medicine and food is the prime reason for the early mailing date moreover gift parcels must trave gervat distances to reach army and navy person personnel nei who are located at remote points and frequently the transfer of large numbers to new stations necessitates forwarding of the packages and additional time is required the response that our people made last year during the overseas mailing period demonstrated that they will cooperate in any rAe measure asure designed for the welfare of our arm ed forces personnel mr walker said it is not easy to concentrate on christmas gifts in the midst of warm weather here at home but our people recognized the need and because they want the men and women who are am absent from their homes to know that they are not forgotten at christmas they took look pains to assure prompt delivery of christmas gilts gifts 1 I know that our people will observe the overseas mailing schedule once more this year but I 1 do wish to stress this fact more care must be taken in wrapping and packing parcels securely and addressing them clearly and correctly it is not a pleasant thing to visit a postal concentration center and see the numbers number of 0 christmas parcels which will never reach servicemen and service servicewomen women va men post office perso personnel anel have orders to do everything they can to e effect delivery ot of such gifts because we know how import important ant they are for the happiness of the armed forces too frequently nothing can be done 1 I am sorry that anyone ever mentioned that the size of a shoe box is the approximate limit for packages intended for gift mailings overseas unhappily many people become con vinced that a shoe box is the best possible possie ae container we must be mindful that these gifts must travel far with shipping space crowded if the gifts are to be krotec protected ted in transit they must be packed in boxes made of wood solid fiberboard or strong do double ube fah faced corrugated fiberboard reinforced with strong stron g gummed paper tape or tied with strong twine if both tope tape and strong twine are used so much the better if the outer wrapper is crush ed and this is likely to happen the loss of contents may be prevented if fiberboard boxes are wrapped in heavy paper we were unable to deliver man many Y parcels which families and friends sent to men and women overseas last year because they were crushed in transit and the gift and the ous odside ide wrapper became separated we would have been a able ble to make Count luned on back page OVERSEAS MAILING PERIOD SEPT I 1 IS TO OCT C 15 11 I 1 continued from fart page delivery if th the 7 8 address had bad shown on the inside wrapper cpr we advise that everyone write the ad dresa of the sender reactor and inside de the package bli as well QS outside christmas gifts mo mearim uch our people oversees a because g wine he heavy police paper boxes be rod and tiber fiber board w will 11 p prove icv e a m real 1 help I 1 in niah mg de delivery I 1 cry of gifts possible ible I 1 urge those these at home to begin saving these materials now As time goes on they are going 1 to become a even plem more scarce me the than they ere are now new among the more important rul rules for christmas in mailings dings to the armed to forces overseas arc am t the he following the parcel must not exceed five pounds and must not be more the than 15 inches in length or 36 30 inches in length and girth combined it should be marked christmas Chri atmas parcel 1 so ae that it may be given sp special 1 atten t tion to assure assume its arrival before do de cember 25 not more than one parcel may be mailed in any one week to the same mine in member of the arrine armed ed forces arces or in behalf 0 of f the same mailer when combination packages arc am made up of such it items go aa miscellaneous I 1 toilet articles hard candle candies soaps etc the contents should be tightly lightly packed so they will not be cc come a loosened in transit and do damage g the ct contents or im the ewer cover hard clim candles hea nuta I 1 ca 1 I Is including Z those cover covered with chocolate cookies fruit coke cake and chocolate bare bara individually wro wrapped piped in waxed pa per emild be enclosed in inner box es as of wood metal or cardboard perishable goods such as fruits and vegetables that may spoil are prohibited intoxicants in materials glern such as a pros matches or lighter fluids poisons pol sons and anything that thai may damage other mall mail also are prohibited gifts enclosed in gless should be substantially ally packed to avoid breakage sharp ins instruments erta such as ru razors and knives must he have them their edges and points dinote protect t ed ad so they cannot cut through the c coverings arlies and injure postal person nel or barlege other packages package relatives and trends who know that that personnel in the burned armed services Y to whom they fily plant plan to send gifts gift are at in far r dis distant t nt points all should ld begin to mall mail the their ir packages on the opening day september 15 pf af the mauling mailing period last so year war late job roal mailings lings causing concentration ratum of great morr numbers ibers of packages in a the final days of the mailing period threatened to defeat the pr program in lt it is ed stressed nad that success cararbe cabbe as suited with the limited person personnel ea 9 and facilities available only rf if the public gives full cooperation th thru prompt ma mailings illings of the overseas gift parcels from the opening of the mailing period |
