Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-12-09
POSTMASTER GEN.
ERA[ HAYS SENDS
XMAS MESSAGE

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 II means to be Santa
Claus TO our 100 900 900 people and
60 deliver Christmas parcels 10 every
family In thia great country within
few DAYS and without disappolnt-
ment.
II can he done and we're going
to do tt If we may have your help.
l want to enlist tho 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 directly before
kChrlstmas.
II VIM you 20 home to-day and take
this message TO your parents and
friends:
Our postmaster has asked IA to
mail our Christmas parcels THIS
WEEK, for. unless w0 do. Uncle
Sans load may be so heavy the last
fhw days before Christmas that he
won't he Rhle to deliver all the pro-
sbnts by Christmas eve"
The parcels must be- we'll wrapped
and tied and addressed plainly In
order that they may arrive IN good
condition with their Christmacy APP
pearance unspoiled. You can put on
your packages, DO not open until
IEhristmaa.
Ill And. there must be a number on
four house and mail receptacle.
Htoo. for, II there isn't. Santa Claua's
messenger, your letter carrier. may
not be able 20 find the house where
the present belongs.
There are some other things, too.
In which you can all assist In inn
proving the mail service and In saw
Ing our great Government millions
OF dollars a year that is nov wasted
because OF our careleBsneas as-youra
and mine.
Every day that you drop a letter
In tho mail box 10000. 900 other
letters are already pushing and jam
ming through the postal machinery.
Ono letter a day for each family Of
five persons In the United States IL
given 10 Uncle Sam 20 deliver.
When you send a parcel 10 the
post office for mailing any day there
nre about 100000 other parcels
ahead of yours passing through the
postal hopper. This IN In ordinary
days; at Christmas time II Is multi
piled many times.
One family IN about every ten PUTS
badly addressed letter in tho mail
every day. This mixes up over a.
600 900 fully addressed letters That
means that tho fully addressed Ist-
teTa must walt on the slow moving
poorly addressed letters just like the
larger boys and girls are delayed
by bunch OF bad kids" tagging
along.
Yon boys and girls can help tho
Postal Service and save your father
Bome money, because he has to help
pay the cost OF searching addresses
on letters and parcels sent out BY
this one careless and thOughtless
. family I'm every ten.
; First find out IL your family In
: the careless one. then bear ia miuA
that your letters must be handled
b. skilled mail distributors standing
IN post offices and on sWaying postal
cars of a mlie-a-mlnute mail trains,
often under poor light.
The address on every letter. card,
or package must be correct, com aIets,
{. and leRIbIe Including the house mum
ber and name OF street. and tho
> From" address should be IN the
upper left-hand corner 40 that ths
mall will be returned 20 you in case
: Il Is not delivered DO not abbra.
viate names OF States. because so
: many look alike when abbreviated
Pat the proper amount of postage
on your letters and wrap the parcels
earefully. Avoid fancy writing
: which causes post-office clerks and
letter carriers 20 stop and study,
? and thus lose time. Mako the a..
i dress plain and easily read. aud al
y ways use pen and Ink or typswrttaF
: and lisht-colored envelopes. 50 AZ 10
y save the eyes of the poat-offlce
clerks. DO not use envelopes OF an
: usual a.za. The little ones that are
. so frequently used for cards and
r notes at Christmas and other holt
2 day times cause an untold amount Of
: trouble and labor. aa they will not fit
our canceling machines and mast
Z therefore be cancelled by hand. Be-
Z cause of their sIze and tendency 20
= slip ont of q package. these small
envelopes are moro likely 20 ba over.
looked or lont.
Mail Your letters and naekasss
. eaFlv In the day. because this avoids
\ overloadinR and delaying mail at ths
s : end OF the day.
: Your local postmaster and youl
teaeheF1 VIII tell you more about the
postal service.
DO these things. and vOu win thf
grateful appreciation Of the neopit
In yOuF poatoffiea and especially oil
YOUR POSTMASTER GENERAL.
WILL II HAYS.
= P a-Don'f forget 10 mail Christ
: ! mas packages THIS WEEK