Christmas Mailing Time: packages for our armed forces overseas
Army and Navy postal notice: a helmeted soldier and a sailor in profile above a globe and a wrapped Christmas gift parcel, with a mailing window of 15 September to 15 October and a list of weight, size, address and postage rules. The service uniforms and the parcel addressed to a private overseas attach the soldier's and sailor's standing to the instruction (transfer); the technique is faint, since the sheet is mostly practical.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army and Navy Postal Services (artist: Bogorad)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Army and Navy Postal Services. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-573 (NAID 514053).
Text on the object
Christmas Mailing Time PACKAGES FOR OUR ARMED FORCES OVERSEAS must be mailed between SEPT. 15-OCT. 15 Address correctly Wrap them securely Weight limit--5 lbs. Size limit--15 in. long --36 in. length and girth combined Prepay full postage Christmas cards must be in sealed envelopes but can be mailed any time [on parcel:] MRS. M. T. JONES 927 ELM STREET MIDDLETOWN, U.S. [on parcel:] PVT. JOHN T. JONES 16 [illegible] 4321 CO. B 349th INFANTRY A.P.O. 670 % POSTMASTER, N.Y., N.Y. [on parcel:] CHRISTMAS GIFT PARCEL U. S. ARMY AND NAVY POSTAL SERVICES [signature:] BOGORAD [imprint:] P-111--RPB--7-29-44--221M
