Phillips County herald., 1921-12-02
Christmas Message

IuTlStIldS lS uiIlUSt utTc.
Your great Post Office Department
has big job ahead and needs your
help.
Think of what 1t means to be Santa
Claus to our 100O00Ouo 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. aud we're going to
do 1t if we may have your. help. |
want to enlist the active assistance of
every boy and girl in the schools of
our country in getting parcels mailed
THIS WEEK and to relieve the rush
that comes directly before Christmas.
VIII you go home today and take
this message to your parents and
friends:
"Our postmaster 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 won't
be able to deliver all the presents by
Christmas eve"
The parcels must be well wrapped
and tied and addressed plainly in
order that they may arrive in good
condition with their Christmas appear
ance unspoiled You can put on your
packages, do not open until Christ
mas"
And there must be number on
your house and 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 other things. too,
in which you can all assist in i'm
proving the mail service and in saw
ing our great government millions of
dollars n year that is now wasted be-
cause of carelessness-yours and
mine.
Every day that you drop letter
in the mail box 4O00000o other let
ters are already pushing and jamming
through the postal machinery. One
letter day for each family OF five
persons In the United States Is given
to Uncle Sam to deliver.
When You send parcel to the post
office by mailing any day there are
about 100000 other parcels ahead of
yours passing through the postal hop
per. This is In ordinary days: at
Christmas time 1t is multiplied many
times.
One family In about every ten puts
badly addressed letter in the mail
every day This mixes up over g.
900. 900 half addressed letters with the
2O.O0O.00O 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
n bunch of bad 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 by this
one careless aud thouehtless family
in every ten.
First find out II your family is the
careless one. then bear in mind that
your letters must be handled by skin.
ed mail distributors standing In post
Offices and on swaying postal cars of
a mile-a-minute mall trains. often un-
der roor light
The address on every letter. card or
package must be correct complete.
and legible, including the house mum.
ber nnd name Of street. and the
"Frcm" address should be IN the mp.
per lefthnnd cornor so that the mail
wii be returned TO You In ease I, is
not delivered 10 not abbreviete
names OF states. because so many
look alike when abbreviated.
Pot the proper amount Of postage
on your letters and wrap the parcels
carefully. Avoid fancy writing. which
causes tho post-ofiee clerks aud Let.
ter carriers to stop and study and
thus lose tlmo Make the address
plain and easily read, and always use
pen and ink or typewriter aud light
colorod envelopes. no as TO save the
eyes Of the post Office clerks. DO no,
nse envelopes OF unusual size. Tn,
little ones that are 30 frequently used
for cards and notes ut Christmas and
other holiday times cause nm untold
amount OF trouble and labor. as the,
viii not NJ our caneeiling machine,
and must therefore he cancelled b,
hand. Because Of their size and ten
dency 10 slip out Of package. these
small envelopes are more likely tt
be overlooked or lost