Looming deadline for 2005 mag award entries

If you're going to take off Christmas week, that leaves very little time to complete your entries to the National Magazine Awards. Deadline is January 10*. Being magazine people, you tend to start thinking about it at, rather than before the deadline. A good habit to break. *Curiously, the MagAwards said that entries "without exception" would have to be postmarked by January 10. Then they say