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December 18, 1956
Surrounded by mountains of mail sacks, Don Bean, left, and Dean Longfellow appear to be lost in despair but the delivery is a regular occurrence at the McMinnville post office with mail pouring in for distribution here. Similar “loads” leave the post office every day headed for other points in the country. Full crews are working at top speed to sort the mail and keep up with the tremendous increase as the Christmas mail reaches its peak.