Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 14, Number 46, DeMotte, Jasper County, 29 September 1944 — How To Mail Christmas Packages To Merchant Seamen [ARTICLE]

How To Mail Christmas Packages To Merchant Seamen

In response to many thousands of requests for information pertaining to the mailing of Christmas packages to officers and seaman aboard merchant vessels, the 6th regional public relations officer of the U. S. Maritime Service in Chicago today asked the Kankakee Valley Post to publish the following: Just as in sending regular mail to a seaman aboard merchant vessels, packages must give the name of the ship in care of the postmaster, New York, if the addressee sailed from the Atlantic coast; in care of the postmaster at New Orleans for. Gulf port seamen; or the postmaster at San Francisco, for Pacific coast sailors. Delivery of parcels cannot be guaranteed; neither can they be insured or registered. Packages should not exceed 11 pounds, 18 inches in length, or 42 inches in length and girth combined. October 15 is the deadline for the mailing of Christmas packages.