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--Canada Post Office ann- 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 postage. | le

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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

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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.

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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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parcels, Dec. 3; letters and

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