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LOOKS A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS; HOLIDAY WISHES JAM POST OFFICES IN SANTA CLARITA.


Byline: Mary Schubert Daily News Staff Writer

The good news was that five clerks manned the windows Monday at the main post office on Creekside Road. The bad news was that the line of customers juggling holiday packages stretched into the lobby.

The U.S. Postal Service The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) processes and delivers mail to individuals and businesses within the United States. The service seeks to improve its performance through the development of efficient mail-handling systems and operates its own planning and engineering programs.  predicted that, with 10 shopping days until Christmas, Monday would be the busiest day nationwide for mailing letters and parcels. Judging by the parking lot at the Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country,  post office, that forecast came true.

Through late morning and early afternoon, a steady stream of cars - sometimes backing up to the driveway on McBean Parkway - vied for the more than 50 spaces in the parking lot. The line inside the post office was often 25 deep.

Postal officials expected to do extra business this year, particularly in the overnight letters and packages that have long been the speciality of Federal Express and United Parcel Service United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS), commonly referred to as UPS, is the world's largest package delivery company, delivering more than 15 million packages[1] a day to 6.1 million customers in over 200 countries and territories around the world. .

``The parcel volume and priority volume, we think, is going to be up about 10 percent this year,'' said Dino Marsango, postmaster postmaster - The electronic mail contact and maintenance person at a site connected to the Internet or UUCPNET. Often, but not always, the same as the admin. The Internet standard for electronic mail (RFC 822) requires each machine to have a "postmaster" address; usually it is  of the Santa Clarita post office.

``The (increased) package volume is due in part to the business we took on - and that stayed with us - during the UPS strike (in August). Our rates are very competitive, and our performance is superior,'' Marsango said.

Across the country, the post office expected to handle 280 million cards and letters Monday. Americans will mail more than 5 billion cards and letters during the holiday season, a 2.5 percent increase over last year, according to according to
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Laura Lowrie moved through a line at the Santa Clarita post office rather swiftly Monday. The Valencia mother of two was waiting to mail five packages to her husband's relatives in Florida, Ohio Florida is a village in Henry County, Ohio, United States, along the Maumee River. The population was 246 at the 2000 census. Geography
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Sugar and caffeine were the top of her in-laws' wish list. ``See's Candy, because they don't have it on the East Coast, and Starbucks Coffee because my mother-in-law doesn't have it in her town,'' Lowrie said. She said she expected to spend $35 to mail the parcels and to buy stamps for the Christmas cards she has yet to send.

At the Postal Service's general mail facility in Castaic, authorities estimated that 2.3 million pieces of mail would be canceled Monday - more than double the daily average for the rest of the year, Marsango said. ``They feel it's going to be up about 2 percent over last year,'' he said.

To handle the volume, the Postal Service postal service, arrangements made by a government for the transmission of letters, packages, and periodicals, and for related services. Early courier systems for government use were organized in the Persian Empire under Cyrus, in the Roman Empire, and in medieval  hired about 125 temporary workers across the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672.  for the holiday season.

Meanwhile, the Santa Clarita post office also was one of several in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region,  to expand window service to a seventh day for two weeks. Clerks helped customers Sunday and will do the same this Sunday, Marsango said.

``We're really trying to get into customer service, trying to let people know that we really want their business,'' the postmaster added.

Marsango said that, despite the widespread use of fax machines and computer electronic mail, the post office believes customers will send about 3 percent more letters - the old-fashioned way, with an envelope and a stamp - than the 1996 holiday season.

``E-mail and faxes - that's more for day-to-day business,'' Marsango said. Internet holiday greetings won't replace Christmas cards, he predicted. ``It's just not personal enough.''

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PHOTO (1 -- color) Postal carrier Danny Abesanis prepares to deliver the holiday mail Monday along his route around the Santa Clarita Valley.

(2 -- color) Valencia resident Laura Lowrie, right, scoots her packages forward as she waits in line Monday at the post office.

(3) A mail carrier rushes out of the Santa Clarita post office with a load of packages Monday, one of the busiest days of the year.

Shaun Dyer/Special to the Daily News
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