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ounced last week the dead-
lines for various types of
Christmas mail—and stress-
ed that overseas cards and
parcels should be mailed
ahead of the deadlines: if -
possible.

"Greeting cards for distant
Canadian points. and the
United States should be
mailed no later than Decem-

Greeting cards for delivery

outside Canda
United - States ©
unsealed. They. will be
carried by air for 15¢ if under
one ounce or by surface for
10€. Correspondence in seal- _
ed. envelopes - for .
destinations must. bear. 20e
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ber 13 and parcels before ‘mail to the most frequent

December 3 if they are to:
reach their destination for
Christmas. The deadline for
‘local delivery is December |
17, said Postmaster General
TeanJacques Blais. .

Zin making ‘his announce-.

ment, Mr. Blais urged
Canadians to mail their cards
and parcels abroad no later.
than the specified date and,
if possible, to get ‘them in the.
“mail earlier... = -.

Ge ting: cards may not

” confain more than five words -

of written message to qualify
for.the lower third-class rate
of 84 if-they are to be mailed
to destinations in Canada or.
the United States. Cards to
these points must be sealed.

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‘The 1976 Christmaas Seal .
British .Colum- ©
bia’s fifty-fourth; begins this”
week with... the. -mailing © -of -

Christmas Seal appeal letters

to hundreds of thousands: of.

British Columbia. homes: ~ og fe

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” For the: past ‘ten’ wionths, .- eC
volunteers have been pains¢ -- -
takingly preparing more than .. -

one million pieces of mail |

containing this year’s seals,. ~! oe,

48 different snowflake des-—
igns, which will be placed-in -

the mail over ‘the: next two oo:
; weeks. |

‘The first British. Columbia
Christmas Seals Campaign,

in 1922, raised $1,599.65 for °

tuberculosis, patient welfare.

-Today,. with a campaign -
goal of $620,000, the B.C.

_ Tuberculdsis-Christmas Seal

Society has directed the main
thrust of its efforts: against °.
respiratory disease “into:

“medical " research projects, |

patient rehabilitation and
social :support, . public and
ptofessional education pro-
grams, and assistance in.the,
constructién, costs | of “health.
units “and other | ‘medical’:
facilities: mas

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B.C. Tuberculosis-Christ-
mas Seal Society President
Alex Clark, of Prince George,
shid: _ that the expansion
of; Christmas Seal Society.

programs. against, emphy-..

sema, asthma, and ‘chronic’ ;
bronchitis has’ been? made}
necessary ‘by. an increase in’:

the incidence of these dligy

eases, and he appealed to the

people of British Columbia to
re espond gencrously - when

Christmas :: ‘Seal ‘letter

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destinations. are as follows:

. Great Biitain and Ireland -
surface mail parcels,.Nov.
10; air mail- parcels, Dec: 8;

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Europe -
parcels, “Oct.. 22; air mail
-parcels, Dec, 3; letters and
sealed cards, Dec..8.. +.

Australia! New ‘Zealand,
* Africa ‘and Asia: - air -mail
parcels, ‘Nov. 26;-letters and
' sealed. cards, Dec. 8.

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