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First of all, I want to apologize for my first attempt at this question (which
you can still find down below); however, as others seem to be interested in it
as well I will try to make myself clearer:

I first came across the construction of 「 **お気軽に** 」 in this sentence:

> (1) 秋田の親戚から届いた本場仕込みの醤油お分けします **お気軽** に園崎 **まで** どうぞ

(from: ひぐらしのなく頃に EP:8)

When I searched for the meaning of 「 **お気軽に** 」I came across this article:
<https://eigobu.jp/magazine/okigaru>

Basically, this construction means something along the lines of “feel free
to…” (at least here). However, what made me wonder was the following example,
mentioned in the article:

> (2) 何かご不明な点がございましたら、担当者 **まで** **お気軽に** お問い合わせください。

As already implied in the comments, the 「 **まで** 」in these sentences may just
have a spatial meaning (in the sense of going as far as a certain area). This
meaning would fit for the first sentence as it is mentioned that the house of
the 園崎 family is relatively far away from the rest of the village the story
takes place in. Nevertheless, in the second sentence I did not get the
impression of this spatial meaning. Here I got the impression that the 「
**まで** 」is used to add a nuance of extent independently from place and more in
the sense of:

② 動作・作用の至り及ぶ程度を表す。ほど。

(from: <https://www.weblio.jp/content/%E3%81%BE%E3%81%A7>)

Because of that I got the impression that the second sentence implies
something like: “Feel free to contact even the manager” in the sense that it
is not usual to call the manager in cases like that.

Therefore, I was wondering if that impression is correct and if not, why is 「
**まで** 」used here then? On top of that, would it be possible to use particles
(if yes which) in (1)?

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I came across this site, explaining the use of 「ご気軽に/お気軽に」
<https://eigobu.jp/magazine/okigaru> (It is mentioned that they have the same
meaning in the article)

One of the examples sentences additionally features 「まで」in it.

> 何かご不明な点がございましたら、担当者までお気軽にお問い合わせください。

Another example from 「ひぐらしのなく頃に」

> 秋田の親戚から届いた本場仕込みの醤油お分けしますお気軽に園崎までどうぞ

Does this 「まで」underline the general meaning of 「ご気軽に/お気軽に」? If not, what
exactly does it mean? Does it simply refer to some sort of "spatial" range (in
the sense of going as far as a certain place)?
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meaning nuances
Possible Nuances of 「まで」 in sentences like these
Either まで is semantically the same as に, besides the point that it feels
blurred and sounds softer, in other words, less responsible.
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> Therefore, I was wondering if that impression is correct and if not, why is
> 「まで」used here then? On top of that, would it be possible to use particles
> (if yes which) in (1)?

The sentence (2) means simply _fell free to reach out to a person in charge_ ,
and **まで** here simply is a standard usage 動作・事柄の及ぶ距離的、時間的な限度・範囲・到達点を表す. It
may not be literally spatial or temporal, but as suggested by _reaching out
to_ having a similar sense, 担当者 is the target / goal of the action _ask_ (even
though using _reach out_ above may not be strictly idiomatic.).

Regarding the second question, you mean _other_ particles? Then に or へ comes
naturally. The verb is omitted in (1), 園崎{まで,に,へ}どうぞ **お越しください**.

> Does this 「まで」underline the general meaning of 「ご気軽に/お気軽に」? If not, what
> exactly does it mean? Does it simply refer to some sort of "spatial" range
> (in the sense of going as far as a certain place)?

The above should answer this as well.
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