Cape Girardeau Post Office employees were deluged with the final big avalanche of Christmas packages on Dec. 23, 1957. Tackling the mountain of late mail were, from the left, clerks Robert J. Sander, Robert D. Gladish, Lee Moore and Weldon Hoeller. (G.D. Fronabarger ~ Southeast Missourian archive)
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