Show postal department urges you to mail early for xmas the post office department now is starting the most gigantic task in its history the movement of a deluge of christmas parcels cards and letters while maintaining regular re flow of millions of pieces of mail daily to and from our arad forces all over the world indications are that the volume of christmas mail will be the largest on record already in september latest month for which figures are available retail sales gales had reached a level second only to the ithe record month of december 1941 according to the department of commerce and sales are rising such heavy purchases always presage heavy mailings if thousands ot of our soldiers sailors marines and civilian friends are not to be disappointed at christmas time the public must cooperate by mailing earlier than ever before and by addressing letters and parcels proper properly ay the best efferts of the post office department alone ca cannot t be enough in view of wartime difficulties faced by the postal system the public must assist about experienced postal workers already have been taken by the war services arrangements are under way to add thousands of temporary personnel to postal staffs but this man power is hard to find and is inexperienced facilities of railroad and air lines are heavily taxed by movements of huge quantities of war materials and person rel extra trucks are almost impossible to obtain winter weather hampering transportation is beginning the free mailing to members of the armed forces has raised their mailings some 30 per cent it is estimated expansion of those forces also is adding rapidly to the postal burden the deadline already is past for mailing gifts to army and navy personnel overseas with assurance that the parcels will arrive by christmas the new york post office reports that in late october such parcels were handled dally daily in that office alone the post office department is making strenuous efforts to avoid such a terrific jam as it faced in n 1918 under similar conditions during the first world war it can succeed in those efforts and avoid many heartaches for its piatro patrons s it if the public will cooperate by mailing early |