The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-11-30
MAIL this WEEK.
IS NEW SLOGAN
FOR CHRISTMAS
Postmaster-general Hays Asks
Cooperation of Local People
in Handling Mail Z
LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS
Tribune Receives First Letters
From Two Little Local Girls
to Santa Claus
Mail this week!

Mall TINS week!
This is the new phase Of the "Shon
Early, Mail Early slogan for Christ
mas giving. Postmaster General Hays
in message to the local Office, urges
the slogan mail This Week."
Stores in Bismarck already are be-
ginning to take on a holiday air, and
the postoftice is getting ready for the
annual rush of business.
The Tribune has received the first
Santa Claus letters from little tots
who believe in the slogans. They fol-
low: H. .u
Dear Santa Claus: I want doll
with curls and a set Of dishes and UNI
brella and dresser and two books and
some napkins and clothes for my doll,
and dancing dress and some mits
and candy and few handkerchleis
and that is all Love and a Merry
Christmas.
.... MABEL"
The second letter reads:
Dear Santa Claus: I want a lit
tie dolly and some clothes and a lit
tie wagon and two horses, book,
dishes, ball, music box, stoves. Love
and Merry Christmas, from
GEORGIA."
Hays Message.
The aid of boys and girls OF the city
in the mail This Week" slogan is IT,
be sought through the local postottice.
Postmaster General Hays, in the fol-
lowing Christmas message, says:
Office of the Postmaster General,
Washington, November 30, 1921.
To the Boys and Girls Of the United
States: -
Christmas is almost here.
Your great post office department
has big job ahead and needs your
help.
Think what it means. to be Santa
Claus to our 10O,0OO,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.
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.'' g..
The parcels must be we'll wrapped
and tied and addressed plainly in or
der that they may arrive in good con-
dition with their Chrlstmasy appear
ance unspOiled. & You can put on your
packa geS, ."Do not open until Christ
mas"
And, there must be a number on
your house and mail receptacle, TOP
or if there isn't Santa Clauss mes
senger, 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 savine
our great government millions of dol
lars a Sydar that is now wasted be-
cause of carelesSnesss- yours and
mine. ...
Every day that you drop letter in
the mail box 100000, 900 other letters
are already pushing and jammine
through the postal machinery. One
letter day for each family of five
persons in the United States is giver
to Uncle Sam to deliver.
When you send parcel to the pos
Office for mailing any day there are
about 100000 other parcels ahead O.
yours passing through the postal hop
per. This is in ordinary days; a
Christmas time it is multiplied many
times.
One family in about every ten put
a badly addressed letter in the mai
every day. This mixes up over 1000,
900 half addressed letters with tn
2O.OOO.OO0 fully addressed letters Tha
means that the fully addressed let
ters must wait on the slow moving
poorly addressed letters just like tn
larger boys and girls are delayed b.
a bunch of "bad kids tagging along
You boys and girls can help tn
postal service and save your fathe
some money, because he has to hel
pay the cost of searching addresse
on letters and parcels sent out by thi
one careless and thoughtless family i
every ten.
First find out if your family is tn
careless one, then bear in mind ths
your letters must be handled by skill
ed mail distributors standing in pos
offices and on swaying postal cars {
mile-a-minute mail trains, often vi
der poor light.
The address on every letter, car
or package must be correct, complet
and legible, including the house nun
ber and name Of street, and Il
From" address should be in the VI
per left-hand corner so that the ma
will be returned to you in case it
rot delivered. Do not abbrevia
IN pooo Gl