Bisbee daily review., 1921-12-04
OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER
 GENERAL
Washington. Nov. 9. 1921.

Washington. Nov. 9. 1921. To the Boys and Girls of the United States:
 Christmas is almost here.
 Your great post Cffice department has a biz job ahead and needs your help.
 Think what il means to be Santa Claus to our 10O,0O0,00O people and 10 deliver Christmas parcels to every family in this great country within the short space of few days and without disappointment.
 It can be done, and we're going to do it if we my 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 3irectly before Christ mas.
 You will go home today and take { this message to your parents and friends:
 Our postmaster has asked us to mail our Christmas parcels this week, 1 for. unless we do. Uncle Sams 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"
 i The parcels must be well wrapped ard tied and addressed plainly in or , der that they may arrive in good con- ! dition with their Christmasy appear arce unspoiled.. You can put on your ' packages, Do net open until Christ ! mas"
 1 And, there must be number on | rour 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 improv- ing the mail service and in saving our great government millions of dol ! lars year that is now wasted be- cause of our carelessness yours and mine.
 Every day that you drop a letter in the mail box 40,000,00O other letters are already pushing and tanning 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 a parcel to the post office for mailing any day there arc about S,000,000 other parcels ahead of yours passing through the postal hopper. This is in ordinary days; al Christmas time it is multiplied many times.
 One family in about every ten puts a badly addressed letter in the mai every day. This mixes up over 2, 000,000 half addressed letters with the 20,000,000 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 grrls are delayed b!
 q bunch of bad kids tagging along
 You boys and girls can help the postal service and sove your father some money, because he has to hell pay the cost of searching addresses on letters and parcels, sent out by this one careless and thoughtless fam fly in every ten.
 First find out if your family is the careless one, then bear in mind tha yCur letters must be handled by skill
 ed mail distributors standing in pos , offices and on swCying pOstOl cars O
 a mile-a-minute mail train, often un , der poor light.
 The addresses on every letter, cart
 oI package must be correct, complete
 and legible, including the house mum , Der and name of street, and the , From" address should be in the up , per left hand corner so that the mai