The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-12-02
. CHRISTMAS MESSAGE
TO BOYS AND GIRLS
Office of the Postmaster General,
WASHINGTON Novorbor 90 1901

Office OF the Postmaster Genera
Washington, November %, 1872
Boys and Girls of the United States.
Christmas is almost here.
Your great po~stoffice department
has a big job ahead and needs you
help.
Think what it means to be SAINT
Claus to u 100, 600 900 people an
to deliver Christmas parcels to ever
family in this great country With
the short space of a few days an,
without disappointment.
1t can be done, and we're going Il
do it if we may have your help.
want to enlist the active assistance O.
every boy and girl in the schools O.
our country in getting parcels malice
THIS WEEK to relieve the rush thai
comes directly before Christmas.
Will you go home to-day and take
this message to your parents ant
friend?:
"Our postmaster has asked us tt
mail u Christmas parcels THIS
WEEK, for, unless we do, Uncle
Sans load may be so heavy the last
few days before Christmas that he
wont be able to deliver all the pres.
ents by Christmas eve."
The parcels must be we'll wrapped
and tied and addressed plainly in order
that they may arrive in good condition
with their Christmasy appearance un-
sopiled. You can put on your pack
ages, "Do not open until Christmas"
And, there must be a number on
your house and a mail receptacle, too,
for, if there isn't, Santa Claus's mes
senger, your letter carrier, may not
be able to find the house where the
present belongs.
There are some others things, too,
in which you can all assist in improv-
ing the mail service and in saving our
great Government millions of dollars
a year that is now wasted because of
our carelessness-yours and mine.
Every day that you drop a letter
in the mail box 100000, 900 other letters
are already pushing and jamming
through the postal machinery. One
letter a day for each family of five
persons is given to Uncle Sam to de-
liver.
When you send a parcel to the post
office for mailing any day there are
about 100000 other parcels ahead
Of yours passing through the postal
This is in ordinary days; at
time it is multiplied many
One family in about every ten puts
! badly addressed letter in the mail
every day. This mixes up wei 2,O00,-
100 half addressed letters with the
fully addressed letters. That
means that the fully addressed let
'ers must wait on the slow moving
poorly addressed letters just like the
anger boys and girls are delayed by
bunch of "bad kids" tagging along.
You boys and girls can help the
POSTAL Service and save your father
'ome money, because he has to help
Jay the cost of searching addresses
IN letters and parcels sent out by this
careless and thoughtless family in
every ten.
First find out if your family is the
areless one, then bear in mind that
letters must be handled by
killed mail distributors standing in
offices and on swaying postal
ars of a mile-a-minute mail trains.
ften under poor light.
n addresses on every letter, card.
r package must be correct, complete.
nd legible, including the house num-
and name of street, and the
From address should be in the IN
left-hand corner so that the mail
I'LL be returned to you in case it is
OF delivered. Do not abbreyiate
of States, because so many look
like when abbreviated.
Put the proper amount of postage
n your letters and wrap the parcels
arefully. Avoid fancy writing, which
auses post-office clerks and letter
arrlers to stop and study, and thus
'se time. Make the address plain
nd easily read, and always use pen
nd ink or typewriter and light-col-
red envelopes, so as to save the ewes
I the post-office clerks. Do not use
nvelopes of unusual size. The little
nes that are so frequently used for
ards and notes at Christmas and
her holiday times cause an untold
mount of trouble and labor, as thew
Ill not fit canceling machines and
'ust therefore be cancelled by hand.
ecause of their size and tendency to
Up out of a package, these small en-
'lopes are mor likely to be over
oked or lost. I,
Mail your letters and packages
'rly in the day, because his avoids
'erloading and delaying mail at the .
d of the day. ,
Your local postmaster and vour
achers will tell you more about the
'stal Service.
DO these things, and you will win !
e greatful appreciation of the peo-
IN your postoffice and especially \
Your POStmastar Co,o, \