Post Office, Georgetown (Don't Delay Mail Today)

The present work was illustrated on the cover of the December 13, 1947 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, accompanied by the following explanation: "What have you here, besides an adroit small-town scene by Stevan Dohanos, is a little sermon on mailing Christmas packages early. The locale is Georgetown, Connecticut, about eight miles from Dohanos' home in Westport, and the characters are Postmaster Julius Johnson, about to receive a shipment of Christmas packages, and Levi Squires, who owns the truck, the dog and the cow—that cow was one of the most co-operative models Dohanos has had in a long time. If you take this reminder to heart, the Post Office Department will call you blessed. Don't be like Dohanos himself. New Year's Day never rolls around without finding a stern note on Dohanos' desk, written to himself in early October, reading 'Draw your Christmas cards now.'" (The Saturday Evening Post, December 13, 1947, p. 3)