The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-08
ENLISTS AID OF
BOYS AND GIRLS
Mail Early Campaign In
cludes School Children
in Work This Year.
TELLS THE REASON

the nation, is invited to become a mis-
sionary in preaching the "Mail-year
Christmas ackages-early" gospel this
year. This morning Postmaster James
German, in keeping with request of
the postmaster general, Will H. Hays,
made plans for the reading of bulle-
tin in the city schools tenlisting the
boys and girls in the work Of urging
their friends and parents to mail ear
".
The bulletin explains clearly why
packages must be mailed early if I'm
Gle Sam is to handle the big rush of
holiday mail The appeal is to be fur
nished to each teacher in the schools
of the city and they are asked to read
it to the students and urge their com
pliance.
Has a Big Job.
The bulletin emphasizes the size of
the job which Uncle Sam has each
Christmas time but shows how much
of the inconvenience of it can be avoid
ed by cooperation. 1t reads as fol-
lows:
To Be Read in the Schools.
To the Boys and Girls of the United
States:
Christmas is almost here.
Your great Post Office Department
has a big job ahead and needs your
help.
Think what it means to be Santa
Claus to our 1O0,00O,000 people and to
deliver Christmas parcels to every fam
lily 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 is getting parcels mailed
as early as possible to relieve the rush
that comes directly before Christmas.
Will you go home today and take
this message to your parents and
friends:
"Our postmaster has asked us to
mail our Christmas parcels as early as
possible, 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 pres
ents by Christmas eve."
The parcels must be we'll wrapped
and tied and addressed plainly in or
der that they may arrive in good con-
dition with their Christmas appear
ance unspoiled. You can put on your
packages, "Do not open until Christ
mas"
And, there must be a number on
your house and a mail receptacle, too,
for, if there isn't, Santa Claus 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 improving
the mail service and in saving our
great government millions of dollars
a year that is now wasted because of
carelessness-yours and mine.
Every day that you drop letter in
the mail box 4O0OOOO0 other letters
are already pushing and jamming
through the postal machinery. One
letter day for each family of five per-
sons in the United States is given to
Uncle Sam to deliver.
When you send parcel to the post
office for 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 it is multiplied many
times.
One family in about every ten puts
a badly addressed letter in the mail
every day. This mikes up over 2,000,-
900 half addressed letters with the
100000 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 "bad kids" tagging along.
You boys and girls can help the
Postal Service and save your father
some money, because he has to heir
pay the cost of searching addresses
on letters and parcels sent out by 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 post of
fees and on swaying postal cars of s
mile-a-minute mail trains, often under
poor light
The address on every letter, card, OF
package must be correct, complete, anC
legible, including the house number
and name of street, and the From
address should be in the upper left
hand corner so that the mail will b,
returned to you in case it is not de
livered. Do not abbreviate names O.
States, because so many look alik,
when abbreviated.
Put the proper amount of postage OF
your letter and wrap the parcels care
fully. Avoid fancy writing, which
causes post Office clerks and letter car
riers to stop and study, and thus los
time. Make the address plain and cas-
lily read, and always use pen and inl
or typewriter and light-colored en-
velopes, so as to save the eyes of tn
post Office clerks. Do not use envel
opes of unusual size. The little one
that are so frequently used for card
and notes at Christmas and other holi
day times cause an untold amount o
trouble and labor, as they will not fl
orr canceling machines and INNS