Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-12-08

Your great Post Office Department
has big job ahead and needs your
help.
Think what it means TO be Santa
Claus 10 our 10000O,0O0 people and to
deliver Christmas parcels TO every
family in this great country within
the short space Of few days and
without disappointment.
1t can be done and we're going 10
do 1T if we may have your help.
want to enlist the active assistance
of every boy and girl in the schools
Of cur country i'm getting parcels
mailed THIS WEEK to relieve Che
the rush that comes directly before
Christmas
VIII you go home to-day and take
this message TO your parents and
friends
Our postmaster has asked as to
mail our Christmas parcels THIS
WEEK, for unless we do, Uncle
Sans load may be so heavy tae last
few days before Christmas that he
won't be able TO deliver all the pres
ents by Christmas eve"
TIE parcels must be well wrapped
and tied and addressed plainly +
der at mF
condi. ~ Cet -
pcNaue 4nsyo.,.. uu -U on
your package $40 pen until
Christmas.
And, there must oe a number on
your house and mal 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.
Thre are some other things, too,
in which you can all assist in inn
proving the mail service and in saw
our great Government millions of
dollars q year that is now wasted be-
cause of cur carelessness-yoms and
mine.
Every day that YOU drop o letter
in the mail box 100000 other let
tiers are already pushing and jam
ming through the postal machinery.
One letter a day for each family of
five persons in the United States is
given 10 Uncle Sam TO deliver
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
hopper. This is in ordinary days. at
Christmas time it is multiplied many
times.
One family in about every ten puts
q badly addressed letter in the nail
every day. That mixes up over
100000 half addressed letters with
the 20,000,0O0 fully addressed letters.
That means that the fully addressed
letters must wait ON the slow moving
poorly addressed letters just like the
larger boys and girls are delayed by
a bunch of dad kids tagging along.
You boys and girls can help the
Postal Service and save your father
some money, because he has to help
pay the cost Of searching addresses
ON letters and parcels sent out Icy
this one careless and thoughtless
family in every ten.
First find out if your family is the
careless one, then bear in mind that
your letters must be handled by
skilled mail distributors standing in
postofifces and on swaying postal
ears Of a mile-a-minute mail trains,
often under poor light.
The address on every letter, card,
or package must be correct, complete,
and lCgible including the house mum
Der and name Of street, and the
"From" address, should be in the up
per left hand corner so that the mail
will be returned 70 you ia ease 1t is
net delivered. Do not abbreviate
names OF States, because so many
look alike when abbreviated.
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, so as to save the
eyes Of the post-office clerks. DO
not use envelopes Of unusual size
The little ones that are so frequently
used for cards ard n0t M C
mas ad e.he. holiday tmes cause
an un.4 amount of o1 and
Labor, Us they win NOT fl ON cam
ceiling machine aad must therefore
be cancelled 10y hand Because Of
their size and tendency to slip out OF
a package, these small envelopes are
more likely to be overlooked or lost
Mail your letters and packages
early in the day, because this avoids
overlooking and delaying mail at the
end Of the day.
Your local postmaster and your
teachers will tell you more about the
Postal Service
Do these things, and you will wiz
the grateful appreciation Of the peo
pie in your post office and especially
of
Your Postmaster General,
WILL II. HAYS.
p. S.-Don't forget to mail Christ
mas packages THIS WEEK.
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