The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-12-05

unless we do. Uncle Sans load may be
so heavy the last few days before Christ
mas 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 order that
they may arrive in good condition with
| their Christmasy appearance unspoiled
/ You can put on your packages, DO not
open until Christmas
! And. there must be a number on your
house and Il 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 belongs.
/ There are many other things, too, in
which you can all assist in improving the
Imail service and in saving our great gov
eminent millions Of dollars a year that is
now wasted because of our carelessness-
yours and mine.
Every day that YOU drop a letter in the
mail box, 100000 other letters are al
ready pushing and tanning through the
postal machinery. One letter day for
each family of five persons 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 hopper. This
is in ordinary days; at Christmas time it
is multiplied many times.
One family in about every 10 puts a
badly addressed letter in the mail every
day. This mixes up over 100000 half
addressed letters with the 20,000,000
fully addressed letters. This means that
the fully addressed letters must wait on
the slow moving. poorly addressed letters
just like the larger boys and girls are de
layed by a bunch of bad kids tagging
along.
You boys and girls can help the postal
service and save your father some money.
ba RI no no rgf of
searching addresses on letters and parcels
sent out by this one careless and thought
less family in every 10
First find out if your family is the care
less one then bear in mind that your let
tiers must be handled by skilled mail dis
tributors standing III postofices and on
sWaying postal cars of a mile-a-minute
mail trains. often under poor light.
The address on every letter card. or
package must be correct complete, and
iegible. including the house number and
name of street, and the From" address
should be in the upper left hand corner
50 that the mail Will be returned to YOU
in case it is not delivered. Do not abbre-
viate names of states. because 50 many
look alike when abbreviated
Put the proper amount of postage on
your letters and wrap the parcels care
fully. Avoid fancy writing, which causes
p0Stotice clerks and letter carriers to stop
ana 81 NA. anu tuNS rose lIilt, Make Ille
address plain and easily read. and al
ways use pen and ink or typewriter and
light COlOTed envelopes. so as to save the
eyes of the pOStOffcP clerks Do not use
envelopes of unusual size. The little ones
that are 50 frequently used for cards and
notes at Christmas and other holiday
times cause an untold amount of trouble
and labor. as they will not fit our cancel
ing machines and must therefore be can
ce!ed by hand. Because Of their size and
tendency to Slip out of a package. these
small envelopes are more likely to be
overlooked or lost
Mail your letters and packages early in
the day. because this avoids Overlooking
and delaying mail at the end of the day
Your local postmaster and your teach
ers will tell You more about the postal
service.
Do these things, and you will win the
grateful appreciation of the people in
your poStOfiice and especially Of
/ Your postmaster general
WILL III. HAYS.
I Z. S.-Dou't forget to mail Christmas
packages THIS WEEK.