The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-12-05
HAYS ADVISES
PUBLIC TO DO
MAILING d \ EARLY | L ! y
Issues Christmas Message to
r. Public and Explains How
" ! to Aid Department
MESSAGE: INTENDED FOR
= CHILDREN ESPECIALLY
Intends That Children Carry
& es"Mail Early" Message
= Into Their Homes

f. Postmaster General Will H. Hays,
Week." which opens all over the
United States to-day, has issued the
issued the following Christmas mes
sage for the public in general and
for the school children in particular:
"Christmas is almost here. >
"Your great post Office department.
has big job ahead and needs your
help. 49,. ..7t-zzs-t - +&& ....
"Think what it means to- be Santa
Claus to over: 100, 100000 people and
to deliver Christmas parcels to every
family in this great country within
the short space of a few days ana
without disappointment. a. q, -.
at can be done and we are going
to do it if we may have your help.
. want to enlist the active assistance
of every boy and girl of our country
in getting parcels mailed this week.
to relieve the rush that comes directly
before Christmas. '1 80
"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 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.'' II &-<% r
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, DO not open until
Christmas &%2 'g..@ -.
"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 improv-
ing the mail service and in saving
our government millions of dollars
a year that is now wasted because
OF our carelessn ess-yours and mine.
every day that you drop letter
in the mail box, 4O,000,000 other let
.ters are already pushing and jamming
through the postal machinery. One
letter day for each family of five
persons in the United States is given
to Uncle Sam to deliver. -> l.
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. IT,. -
'"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 2O,000,000 fully addressed letters.
That means that the fully addressed
letters must wait ON the slow moving
poorly addressed letters just like the
larger boys and girls are delayed by
a bunch of ,'bad kids" tagging 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. Ia 'E>'.
"First find out IT, your family is
the careless one, then bear in mind
that your letters must be handled by
skilled mail distributors standing in
postoffices and on sWaying postal cars
of a mile-a-n minute trains, often under
poor light. &' >7 2 q 80. =
'"The address on every letter, card
or package must be correct, complete
and legible, including the house num-
Der and name Of street, and the
"From'' address should be in the
upper left-hand corner so that the
mail will be returned to you in case
it is not delivered. Do not abbreviate
Continued IN Pare IS, T.
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