Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1921-12-07
POSTN1AS STER GENERAL HAYS
Send, Message to the Boys and Girls
OF United States.

Washington, D. c., NoY. 22, 1921.
TO the Boys and Girls Of the United
States:
Christmas Is almost here!
Your great Postofrlce Department
has big job ahead and needs your
help.
Think what it means to be Santa
Claus to our one hundred millions OF
people and to deliver Christmas par
cells to every family in this great
country within the short space Of Il
few days and WITHOUT disappoint-
ment.
1t can be done, and we're going to
do it if we may have 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.
viii you go home to-day and take
this message to your parents and
friends:
Our postmaster has asked us to
mail our Christmas parcels THIS
WEEK, for, unless wo do, Uncle Sam
may have load so heavy the last
few days before Christmas that he
won't be able to deliver all the pres
ents by Christmas eve"
The parcels must be we'll wrapped
and tied and addressed plainly in or
dor that they may arrive in good con-
diti0n with their Christmasy appear
ance unspoiled. You can put on your
package "Do not open until Christ
mas"
And there must be Il number Cn
your house and mail receptacle,
too, for. if there isn't. Santa Claus
messenger, your letter carrier, may
not be able to find the house where
the present belongs
There are some other things, too.
iii which you can assist in improving
the mail service and in saving our
great government millions Of dollars
a year that is now wasted because
Of our carelessness-your and mine
Every day that you drop a letter
in the mail box 40,000,00O other let
ters 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 to Uncle Sam to deliver
When you send parcel to the
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
a badly addressed letter in the mail
every day. This mixes up over O.
100000 half addressed letters with
the 20.O00,000 fully addressed let
ters. That means that the fully ad-
dressed letters must wait OH the slow
moving poorly addressed letters Just
like the larger boys and girls tie
delayed by 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 pracels sent out by
this one careless and thoughtleSs
family in every ten.
First find out if your family is tie
careless one. then bear in mind that
your letters must be handled by the
skilled mail distributors standing in
pOstofiices and on swaying postal
cars OF a-mile-a minute trains, often
under poor light
The address on every letter, card,
or package must be correct. complete
and legible. including the house num-
ber and name OF street. and he
Prom" address should be in the up
per left-hand corner so that the mail
will be returned to you in case it is
not delivered. Do not abbreviate the
names Of States, because so many Of
them look alike when they are alb
breviated
Put the proper amount Of postage
on your letters and wrap the parcels
carefully. Avoid fancy writing, which
causes pOstof1ce clerks and letter