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Show It'sTimeYouGotThatMailingDone Post Office Sets Limits on Christmas Delivery How you doing with that Xmas mailing? The time's getting short, and postal officials are making their annual plea to mail early and avoid the rush and also to guarantee delivery beforp the big day comes. Cecil A. Crockwell, superintendent super-intendent of the Sugar House station, declares there is no such thing as a mailing deadline dead-line mail will be accapted anytime and delivery made as soon as possible, but he also points out that unless mail destined for certain areas is posted by certain dates, it likely like-ly will not reach its destination destina-tion before Christmas. Here are the last local posting dates for guaranteed delivery in various sections of the coun- try: Dec. 8 Connecticut, Delaware, Dela-ware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Mary-land, Massachussetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, iNew York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Ver-mont, Virginia and West Virginia. Vir-ginia. Dec 10 Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missis-sippi, Ohio, South Carolina. Tennessee and Wisconsin. Dec. 11 Arkansas, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nebra-ska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Dako-ta, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas and Washington. Washing-ton. Dec. 12 Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, y Nevada and Wyoming. Dec. 13 Utah (outside Salt Lake County). Dec. 17 Local. ' Also in the matter of Christmas Christ-mas cards the post office reminds re-minds that all sealed cards, local lo-cal or otherwise, take three cents, and that unsealed carus will go for a cent and ont-half. ont-half. However, there is no directory service on the latter, and an incorrectly addressed card is out of luck. Every year thousands of incorrectly addressed ad-dressed cards having only a cent and one-half postage are destnjyed, whereas if they had the three cent stamp a search of the directory would be made to find the correct address, or if the sender's address ad-dress were on the outtflde the card would be returned- |