Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1921-12-08
CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

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To the boys and girls of the Unit
ed States:
Your great Post Office Depart
ment has big job ahead and needs
your help.
Think what it means to be Santa
Claus to our 100,000,000 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
to do it 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 to relieve the rush
that CONS 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 presnts 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 Christmasy ap-
pearance unspoiled. You can put
on your packages 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
messenger, your letter carrier, may
not be able to find the house where
the presents belong.
There are some other things in
which you can all assist in improv-
ing the mail service and in saving
our great Government millions of
dollars year that Is now wasted be-
cause of our carelessness-your
and mine.
Every day that you drop a letter
in the mail box 100000 other
letters are already pushing and
Jamming through the postal machin-
cry. One letter day for each fam
lily of five persons in the United
States 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 hopper. This Is in ordinary |
days; at Christmas time it is multi
piled many times.
one family in about every ten |
puts badly addressed letter in the
mail every day. This mixes I'D over
100000 half-addressed letters
with the 100000 fully addressed
letters. That means that the fully
addressed letters must wait on the
;loW-moving poorly addressed letters
lust like the larger boys and girls
ire delayed by a bunch of bad kids"
aging along.
You boys and girls can help the
POSTAL Service and save your father
'ome money, because he has to helm
Jay the cost OF searching addresses
IN letters and parcels sent out by ]
his one careless and thoughtIess
amlly in every ten.
First find out il your family is l
ne careless one, then bear in mind Z
nat your letters must be handled {
W skilled mail distributors standing 6
n post Offices and on swaying postal
ars OF mfle-a-minute mail trains,
ften under poor light.
he address on every letter, card,
r package must be correct, COM 1
iete and legible, including the S
ouse number and name of street. /
nd the From" address should be {
n the upper left-hand corner so that
he mail will be returned to you in !
ase it is not delivered Do not |
bbreviate names of States because
D many look alike when so Aubrey U
ted Q
Put the proper amount Of postage :
n your letters and wrap the parcels i
Avoid fancy writing,
'hich causes post-office clerks and /
tier carriers to stop and study, and q
nus lose time. Make the address
lain and easily read, and always
Sc pen and ink or typewriter and =
envelopes so as to
i've the eyes Of the post-officel
erks. Do not use envelopes of I'M
sual size. The little ones that are 81
} frequently used for cards and 5