Norwich bulletin., 1921-12-02
ASKS BOYS AND GIRLS TO
 HELP ON CHRISTMAS


 A Christmas message from Postmas- ter General Will H. Hays to the boys and girls of Norwich has been received by Postmaster John F. Murphy. The message is as follows:
 1 To the Boys and Girls of Norwich: Christmas is almost here Your great post office department has big job ahead and needs your help Think what it means to be Santa Claus to our 100 900, ,000 people and to deliver Christmas parcels to every fam fly in this great country within the short space of few days and without i disappointment.
 It can be aone. and we're going to 1 do it if we may have your help. I want | to enlist the active assistance of every i boy and girl in the schools off our coun- try in getting parcels mailed this week to relieve the rush that comes directly before Christmas.
 l Will 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 Sam's load may be so heavy the last few days before Christ mas that he won'e be able to deliver all the presents by Christmas eve" f The narce s must be well wrapped and tied and addressed plainly in order that they may arrive in good condition with Itheir Christmasy appearance unspoiled. You can put on your packages, Dc not open until Christmas"
 And, there must be number on your house and 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 present be- longs.
 There are some other things, too, ir 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 our care. Iessness-yours and mine.
 Every day that you drop a letter ir the mail box 100000 ,000 other .etters art already pushing and tanning through the postal machinery. One letter da! for each family of five persons in tht United States is given to Uncle Sam |, deliver.
 When you send a parcel to the pos office for mailing any day there ar / about S,000,000 other parcels ahead o yours passing through the postal hopper This is in ordinary days; at Christina
 time it is multiplied many times.
 One family in about every ten put a badly addressed letter in the mai l every day. This mixes up over 1000, ,O0 I l half addressed letters with the 20, ,000 q GOO fully addressed letters. That mean
 that the fully addressed letters mus : wait on the slow moving poorly address ed letters. just like the larger boys an e girls are delayed by a bunch of ,"ba Q kids" tagging &ong. }. You boys and girls can help the posts e service and save your father som q money, because he has to help pay tn
 cost of searching addresses on letter
 and parcels sent out by this one cart
 less and thoughtless family in every tel
 First find out if your family is tf l careless one, then bear in mind tha e your letters must be handled by skille ,f mail distributors standing in post offic, e and on swaying postal cars of a mle-s IT. minute mail trains, often under poo d light
 l. The address on every letter. card, ( IS package must be correct complete, ar e legible, including the house number ar 'e name of street. and the From" addre
 should be in the upper left-hand corn, :: so that the mail will be returned to yc n In case 1t is not delivered. Do not al l breviate names of States, because $ 'u many look alike when abbreviated. al Put the proper amount of postage (
 your letters and wrap the parcels car r fully. Avoid fancy writing, whic Id causes post office clerks and letter ca D. riers to stop and study, and thus To