Holiday print greeting service begins Oct. 1 Published Sept. 30, 2003 SAN ANTONIO (AFPN) -- The Army and Air Force Hometown News Service is offering its free print holiday greeting program to servicemembers worldwide. The program, now in its fourth year, will be open for submissions Oct. 1 through Nov. 25.An important change for this year’s program is open access to the program by individual servicemembers.The print greeting program is a fully electronic Internet program that allows any servicemember to send a formatted holiday greeting to relatives through the Hometown News Service here. After processing, the HNS staff e-mails the greetings to newspapers serving the relatives’ community. The program is free to both the servicemember and their community newspaper."We have more than 1,000 hometown newspapers signed up for newspaper holiday greetings, and they each cover several ZIP code areas,” said Gerry Proctor, HNS chief of marketing. “Each form can generate several releases. The greetings are distributed according to ZIP codes and state. When the servicemember puts in their ZIP code ... the computer ... distributes a release for every subscribing newspaper covering that area."“Complete and correct information is vital.” Proctor said. “Submissions without a ZIP code or with an incorrect ZIP code go nowhere.”Besides having several releases generated from each form, the servicemember can input multiple forms as well."Each person can submit as many greetings as (he or she wants)," Proctor said. "You can send holiday greetings to your parents, in-laws, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles and anyone who is a relative as long as you have their city, state and ZIP code."Program information and forms are accessible on HometownLink at http://hn.afnews.af.mil from any government computer system.