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Show Mail Early1 For Christmas I Postmaster D. R. Trevithick announced his annual ' 'Mail Early for Christmas" Campaign today and outlined his plans for insuring delivery of all Christmas gifts and cards by Christmas Eve. "We've found from past experience," ex-perience," the Postmaster Said, "that the two biggest factors in successfully handling the Christmas mail rush are first, to get our Post Office facilities into high gear from every standpoint, and second, and most important, to have the full cooperation of the mailing public' ' He then offered some helpful suggestions by stating, "It's not too soon to start checking your Christmas gift and card lists very carefully -- making sure that each address includes full name, street and number, city, zone and state.' ' He also, said, ' Early Christmas shoppers should stock up now on heavy wrapping paper, sturdy corrugated cartons, strong cord, and paper adhesive tape, to insure secure packing and wrapping of their Christmas gifts. Buy stamps for your Christmas cards now, before the rush, and thus avoid those last minute Christmas Mailing Mail-ing headaches." Predicting that this year's Christmas mail will set a new, all time record, the Postmaster especially directed his appeal to "the lady of the house" for cooperation on his '"MailEarlyfor Christmas" Campaign. She's the one that usually selects the Christmas Christ-mas cards, buys most of the gifts, and sees to it that the Christmas mailing lists are up-to-date. For guidance on your Christmas gift mailings he suggested that you secure Pamphlet No. 2 at the Post Office, which gives you helpful, detailed information. The Post Office also provides free labels which read, "ALL FOR LOCAL DELIVERY" and ' 'ALL OUT OF TOWN DELIVERY, ' so that you can sort your Christmas Christ-mas cards into two groups before you mail them, with the addresses all facing one way, thus hastening their handling and delivery. The postmaster suggested the use of First Class four cent, or seven cent Air Mail postage on your Christmas cards. This enables en-ables you to include handwritten messages on the cards and, also, cards sent by First Class mail are subject to forwarding or return service, if necessary, whereas cards that are mailed at the three cent, Third Class rate, may include only your signature and will not be forwarded or returned. It is not only socially correct, but extremely helpful to both the Post Office and those on your mailing lists, to include your return name and address on every Christmas card envelope. The Postmaster emphasized the importance of planning your Christ mas mailings so that those Christmas cards and gifts for most distant points are mailed first. Special effort should be made to get all of your out-of-town packages and cards into the Post Office before December 10th. Those for nearbypoints will arrive before Christmas Eve if they are mailed by December 15th. |