The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-12-16
CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

OHce Oh the postmaster General,
Washington, November %, 1921.
To the Boys and Girls Of the United
States:
(Postmasters should deliver this
message or have Ii presented to the
school authorities so that it may be
read In the public schools Monday,
December 5, and published, without
cost, In local newspapers, if possible.)
Christmas is almost here.
Your great Post Office Department
has a big job ahead and needs your
help.
Think what ii means to be Santa
Claus to our 100, 900, 900 people and
to deliver Christmas parcels to every
family in this great country within
the short space of a few days and
without disappointment.
1t a be done, and we're going to
do 1t IL we may have your help. l
want to enlist the active assistance
of every boy and girl in the schools
of u country in getting parcels mail
ed This Week to relieve the rush that
comes directly before Christmas.
Will you go home today and take
this message to YOU parents and
friends:
Our postmaster has asked us 10
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 or
der that they may arrive in good con-
dition with their Christmasy appear
ance unspoiled. You can put on your
packages, "Do not open until Chris
tmas."
And, there must be a number on
your house and a 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 a yea that is now wasted be-
cause of our carelessness-yours and
mine.
Every day that you drop a letter
in the mail box 100000, 900 other let
ters are already pushing and jam
uluS lHTOuSH lie pOStdi ihdShihOiy
One letter a day for each family OF
five persons in the United States is
given to Uncle Sam to deliver.
When you send a parcel to the post
office for mailing any day there are
about 5000, 900 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
a badly addressed letter in the mail
every day. This mixes up over 2,000,-
600 half addressed letters with the
20,O00,O00 fully addressed letters.
That means the fully addressed let
4 tiers must wait on the slow moving
T poorly addressed letters just like the
larger boys and girls are delayed by
a bunch of bad kids" tagging along.
You boys and girls a help the
Postal Service and a v your father
some money, because he has to help
pay the cost of searching addresses
on letter and parcel 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 skill
ed mail distributors standing in post
offices and on swaying postal cars of
a mile-a-minute mail trains, often un.
der poor light.
The address on every letter, card,
or package must be correct, complete
and legible, including the house mum
Der and name of street, and the
Form" address should be in the up
per left-hand corner SO that the mail
will be returned to you in case 1t is
not deliver. 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