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Show Support Your Postmaster . . . Time To Start Early Christmas Mailings .... "It's time to start those Christmas Christ-mas Mailings!" This warning was forthcoming from postmasters in the various communities in the Basin as they launched their 1955' "Mail Early for Christmas" campaign. "On the calendar it's a month away, but here in the Post Office Of-fice it's Christmas today and every day until December 25th," they said. Extra office help has been secured, post office ink wells filled and everything is ready for the mammouth flood of Christmas mail that is expected to smash all records. The Post Office has already dispatched dis-patched a tremendous quantity of gift packages headed for members of the Armed Forces overseas. Christmas cards for service personnel per-sonnel can still be delivered in time if they are sent by air mail before December 1st. All postmasters especially call on housewives to help in his effort ef-fort to deliver every package and Christmas card before December 25th. "The lady of the house," he emphasized, is really in charge of the family's Christmas mailing program. pro-gram. She selects the Christmas cards, buys most of the gifts and sees to it that the mailing list of friends and Ioved-ones is up-to-date. He urges that you take the following fol-lowing steps at once: Get out your Christmas card list and carefully check through it. Make sure that each address includes the full name, street and number, city, zone and state. Then, pay a visit to the Past Office, stock up on stamps (use three cent stamps on your Christmas cards for first-class first-class mail service), and ask any questions you may have about mailing regulations. Plan your mailings so that those for the most distant points go first. Try to get all long-distance' mailings mail-ings into the Post Office before December 5th and those for nearby near-by points should be mailed by December 10th. You'll' be glad you did. |