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Show Mai! Early Appeal Made To Public Public response to the Post Office Department's "Shop Now! Mail In November" campaign is good but needs to be better, according ac-cording 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 serv-ice cannot 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 reas-ons Americans cooperate magnificently. mag-nificently. "In a great number of our 43,-000 43,-000 post offices the man power situation is critical. The 200,000 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 and high school boys and I girls to whom in large part we must look this year to meet the situation. "The way in which everyone responded in making it possible for us to handle a volume of 70,-000,000 70,-000,000 parcels for the armed forces overseas leaves no doubt in my mind that the November Christmas mailing will be equally equal-ly successful. I ask for the help I of the press, radio, business advertisers, ad-vertisers, civic groups and all Americans in making it possible for the Postal Service to do its I work. |