Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1921-12-15
CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

christmas is almost here.
To the boys and girls Of the Unit
81 States:
Your great Post Office Depart
aent has a big job ahead and needs
your help.
Think what it means to be Santa
1laus TO our 1O0,000,000 people and
0 deliver Christmas parcels &c
-ery family in this great country
thin the short space OF a few days
nd without disappointment.
II can be done, and we're going
o do it IL we may have your help.
ant to enlist the active assistance
f every boy and girl in the schools
r our country in getting parcels
JAILED this week to relieve the rush
nat CONS directly before Christmas.
Will you go home today and take
his message to your parents and
friends?
Our postmaster has asked US to
nail our Christmas parcels this
Teek, for, unless we do. Uncle Sam g
Dad may be so heavy the last few
avs before Christmas that he won't
- able to deliver all the presnts by
thristmas eve"
The parcels must be we'll wrapped
nd tied and addressed plainly in
rider that they may arrive in good
1ndition with their Christmssy ap-
4sarance unspoiled. You can PIT
n your packages DO not open UNI Il
hriStmas.
And, there must be & number on
our house and mail receptacle,
90, for, if there isn't, Santa Claus's
Messenger, your letter carrier, may
lot be able to find the house where
he presents belong.
There are some other things in
which you can all assist in improv-
ng the mail service and in saving
1ur great Government millions of
ollars a year that is now wasted be-
ause of our arelessness-yours
nd mine.
Every day that you drop g letter
the mail box 100000 other
atters are already pushing and
aiming through the postal machin-
~. One letter a day for each fam
v of five persons in the United
5tates is given to Uncle sam to de-
iver
When you send a parcel to the
cst office for mailing any day there
re about 100000 other parcels
head of yours passing through the
POSTAL hopper. This is in ordinary
avs: at Christmas time it is multi
lied many times.
One family in about every ten
,uts a badly addressed letter in the
nail every day. This mixes up over
100000 half-addressed letters
With the 100000 fully addressed
etters. That means that the fully
ddressed letters must wait on the
low-moving poorly addressed letters
ust like the larger boys and girls
IRE delayed by bunch Of bad kids"
agging along.
You boys and girls can help the
POSTAL Service and save your Esther
sOme money, because he has to help
Nay the cost of searching addresses
N letters and parcels sent out by
his one careless and thoughtless
amily in every ten.
First find out il your family is
he careless one, then bear in mind
hat your letters must be handled
~ skilled mail distributors standing
n post Offices and on swsying postal
ars of q mile-a-minute mail trains,
1ften under poor light.
he address on every letter, card,
or package must be correct, COM
ulete and legible, including The
house number and name OF street,
and the From" address should bs
in the upper left-hsnd corner 30 that
the mail will be returned to you in
case IL is not delivered. Do not
abbreviats names Of States becsuse
so many look alike when so abbreT-
lated.
Put the proper amount OF postage
on your letters and wrap the parcels
carefully. Avoid fancy writing,
which causes post-office clerks and
letter carriers to stop and study, and
thus lose time. Make the address
plain and easily read, and always
use pen and ink or typewriter and
light-colored envelopes 30 as TO
save the eyes Of the pos.-office
clerks. Do not use envelopes Of I'M
usual size. The little ones that are