The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-12-08
MAIL THOSE HOLIDAY
PACKAGES EARLY
Postmaster u, l.. Beckes Urges CO.
Operation of Patrons In Avoiding
Last-Minute Rush


Lynden district to mail their Christi
mas packages early was sent out to-
day by d. l.. Beckes, Lynden post
master
Lynden's postal business has in
creased considerably in the last few
years, and the capacity of the office
is sorely taxed at Christmas time. 1t
is to aid the Lynden staff, as well as
offices in similar position throughout
the land that Postmaster Beckes asks
the help of local people.
He has urged the children Of the
district to read the following letter
from Postmaster General Will H.
Hayes:
To the boys anG girls of the United
States:
Christmas is almost here.
Your great Post Office has big
job ahead and needs your help.
Think what it means to be Santa
Claus to our 100, 100000 people and
to deliver Christmas parcels to every
family III this great country within
the short space of few days and
without disappointment
1t can be done, and we're going to
do it if we may have your help. l
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 directly before Christ
mas.
VIII you go home today and take
this message to your parents ana
friends?
"Our postmaster has asked us to
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 wont 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 Christmas ap-
pearance unspoiled. You can put on
your packages, "Do not open until
Christmas"
And there must be a number on
your house and mail receptacle,too,
for, if their isn't, Santa Claus.s mes
SeDGbT,
be able to find the house where the
presents belong.
There are some other things in
which you can assist in improving
the mail service and in saving our
great Government millions of dollars
q year that is now wasted because
of our carelessness-yours and mine.
Every day that you drop letter
in the mail box, 100000 other let
ters are already pushing and jam
ming 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 a 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 multi
piled many times.
One family in about every ten puts
a badly addressed letter in the mail
every day. This mixes up over 2,oUo,
600 half-addressed letters with the
100000. 600 fully addressed letters
That means that the fully addressed
letters must wait on the slow moving
poorly addressed letters just like the
larger bows and girls are delayed by
a bunch of "bad kids" tagging along.
You BOYS and girls can help the
postal service, and save your fathef
some 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 in every ten
First find out if your family is the
hnn
vour letters must be handled by
skilled mail distributors standing in
most offices and swaying postal cars
Of a mile-a-minute mail train, often
under poor light.
Tho address on every letter, card
or nackage must be correct, complete,
and legible, including the house num-
her and name of street and the
"from" address should be in the up
per left-hand corner so that the mail
will be returned TO you in case II Is
not delivered DO not abbrevlate
names of States because so many
look alike when abbreviated
Put the proper amount OF postage
on vour letters and wrap the parcels
carefully. Avoid fancy writing whlcf
canses most office clerks and letter
carriers to stop and study, and thus
lose time. Make the address pialI
and easily read. and always use pen
and ink or typewriter and light col
ored envelopes. so as to save the eye
of the post office clerks. Do not use
envelopes of unusual size. The ilttle
ones that are so frequently useu ioi
cords and notes at Christmas or other
holiday times cause an untoie
amount of trouble and labor, as the!
will not fit our canceling machines
and must therefore be cancelled by
band Recause of their size and ten
dencv to slip out of package, these
small envelopes are more likely tx
be overlooked or lost.
Mail your letters or packages earn
:, the dav. because this avoids over
loading and delaying mail at the en'
of the day. ,,
Your local postmaster and you
teachers will tell you more apou
the Postal Service. -,
no these things, and you Will WI
the grateful appreciation OF the peo ,S'
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