The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1921-12-01
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DFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER GEN.
| ETtAL, Washington, Nov. %, 1921.
TO the Boys and Girls of the United
+ States:
| Christmas is almost here.
Il Your great Postofflce Department has
p big job ahead and needs your help.
| Think what it means to be Santa
! Claus to our LOO 100000 people and to
deliver Christmas parcels to every fam
| lily in this great country within the
short space of a few days and without
disappointment.
It>can be lone and we're going to do
I it if we may nave your help. I want
to enlist the active assistance of every
boy and girl in the schools of our
country in getting parcels mailed
| THIS WEEK to relieve the rush that
| comes directly before Christmas.
| Will you go home today and take
| this message to your parents and
| friends:
"Our postma ster has asked US to mail
our 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 de-
| liver all the presents by Christmas
eve."/
The parcels must be we'll wrapped
! and tied and addressed plainly in or
| der that they may arrive in good condi-
! ton with their Christmasy appearance
unspoiled. You can put on your pack
| ages, do not open until Christmas.'
| And, there must be a number on
your house and mail receptacle, too
| for, if there isn't, Santa Claus's mes
sengef, your letter carrier may not be
| able to find the house where the pres
ent belongs.
There are some other things, too in
| which you can all assist in improving
the mail service and IN saving our
great Government millions of dollars a
| year that is now wasted because Of our
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and mine.
! Every day that you drop a letter in
the mail box forty million other letters
are already pushing and jammine
Through the postal machinery. One let
ter a day for each family Of five per-
sons in the United States is given tc
| Uncle Sam to- deliver:
When you sned a parcel to the post
! office for mailing any day there are
! about eight million other parcels ahead
Of yours passing through the postl
hopper. This is. in ordinary days; al
| Chr istmas time it is multiplied many
! times
! ": One family IN about, every ten puts :
"badly addressed letter in the mail every
day. This mixes up over two million
half addressed letters with the twenty
million fully addressed ones. Tha
means that the fully addressed letter:
| must wait on the slow moving poorly
addressed letters just like the boys ane
girls are delayed by a bunch of "bat
| kids tagging along.
You boys and girls can help the pos
tai service and save your father some
money, because he has to help pa,
the cost of searching addresses on let
/ ters and parcels sent out by this on,
careless and thoughtless family in ev
cry ten.
First find out if your family is tn'
careless one. then bear in mind tina
your letters must be hand oil Ivy skilled
mail distributors STANDING in postoffce
and on Svayins postal cars OF u mi @
a-mnltc mail trains, often under poo
light.
The address, on every letter, card O
package must he correct, compete, ant
lcgibe. Including the house number an'
name Of street, and the ''I'rom" address
should he in the upper lcft-hand corne
so that the mail may be returned t.
you in case it is not delivered. DO no
abbreviate names Of states, because 81
many look alike when .1hbrevia ted.
Put the proper amount OF poSta &c Of
your letters and wrap the parcels care
fully. Avoid fancy writing, which eau
ses postOffcc clerks and letter carrier
to stop and study, and thus lose time
Make the address plain and easily rea'
and always use pen and ink or type
writer and light-colored envelopes, s.
as to save the eyes Of the postoftic
clerks. DO not use envelope of unus
ual size. The little ones that are s.
frequently used for cards and notes 4
Christmas and other holiday time
cause an untold amount of trouble an
labor as they will not fit our cancel
ing machines and must therefore b
Cancelled by hand. Because of their siz
and tendency to slip out of a packag
these small envelopes are more. llkely [
be over1o looked on lost.
Mail your letters or packages earl
in the day because this avoids over
loading and delaying mail at the en-
of the day.
Your local postma ster and your teach
ers will tell you more about the Posta
Service.
Do these things and you Il will wi
the grateful appreciation of the peopl
in your postoff1ce and especially of
Jour Postmaster General,
WILL H. HAYS.
p. S.-.Don:t forget to mail Christina
, packages THIS WEEK.