The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-12-09
CHRISTMAS MESSAGE.
Office OF The Postmaster General
Washington, Nov. %, 1921.
To the BOYS and GIRLS of the


To the BOYS and GIRLS of the
UNITED STATES
Christmas is almost here.
Your great Post Office Depart
ment has big job ahead and needs
your help.
Think what it means to be Santa
Claus to our 100,000,0O0 people and
to deliver Christmas parcels to every
family in 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. [
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
Christmas.
"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 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 ap-
pearance unspoiled. You can put on
your packages, EDO not open until
Christmas"
And, there must be a number on
your house and a 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 some other things, too,
in which you can all assist in i'm
proving the mail service and in saw
ing our great Government millions
of dollars a year that is now wasted
because of our carelessness-yo
and mine.
Every day that you drop a letter
in the mail box 4O,O0O,OOO 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
100000 half addressed letters with
the 100000 fully addressed letters.
That means that the fully address
ed letters must wait on the slow NOV
ing poorly addressed letters just
like the larger boys and girls are de-
layed by bunch of "bad kids" tag
ging along.
You boys and girls can help the
Postal Service and save your father
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 careless one, then bear in mind
that your letters must be handled
by skilled mail distributors standing
in post offices and on swaying post
al cars of a minute mail
trains, often under poor light.
The address on every letter, card,
or package must be correct, COM
plete, and legible, 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 alb
breviate names of States, because
so many look alike when abbreviated.
Put the proper amount of postage
on your letters and wrap parcels
carefully. Avoid fancy writing, which
causes post office clerks and letter
carriers to stop and study, and thus
lose time. Make the address plain
aid easily read, and always use pen
and ink or typewriter and light col
cred envelopes, so as to save the
eyes of the post office clerks. Do
not use envelopes of unusual size.
The little ones that are so frequent
ly used for cards and notes at Christ
tooc and otbnr holiday tiYnoc ca1lca