| Show postal department head Hea dUrges urges citizenry to mail christmas packages in month of november delivery of the annual flood of 0 christmas gifts and cards on time always a serious problem will be more than a problem this year it will be an impossibility lity ii unless aless christmas mailings are made largely in november postmaster general frank fradli C wamer waller warned warned today transportation facilities are burdened to the limit with war materials and personnel and th postal service has sent more than 31 thousand experienced employees into the army and navy navy 11 mr air walker said the only solution to the christmas problem la Is to in mall a 11 in november mark your parcels do not open until christmas that Is the only way to avoid disappointment on christmas day not only for many civilians but also for millions millious of members of the armed fories forces who are still la in this country i it Is also the only way to avoid the possibility of a christmas emergency in the transportation and postal service if the public will cooperate by mailing their Chri christmas simas parcels during I 1 november we can handle a small volume of light last minute mailings such as cards up to december 10 but we can do that and avoid an emergency only it if november is really christmas mailing month 11 postal officials pointed out that the volume of mall now is far above any previous records that railway cars by the hundreds I 1 have been diverted to war service and that the air I 1 lines ines have only about halt half as many planes as they once operated moie afore than two hundred thousand extra temporary employees normally are aie 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 woric the long hours usually required and whose work will be relatively slow to deliver the christmas malls mails on time therefore it is necessary that mailings be spread out over over a longer period so that available transportation equipment and postal personnel can be used during more weeks it will be utterly impossible to make the deliveries by christmas it if mailers wait until the last three weeks before the holmay holiday as in normal years there la Is another reason for shopping and mailing earlier than ever before retail stores are shorthanded short handed purchasers can avoid shopping in crowded stores long watts wadis for service and other inconveniences Inconvenience i of lato late shopping it they buy now they will also doubtless have a better cadice of merchandise than will be available later postmaster general tie r observed ser ved that this warning Is not an attempt to tell tile the people what to do it Is only an advance notification of what will happen it they mall late ile he feels that the public Is ent iteld to the facts and that when they hey know them they will decide to mail in november I 1 |
