The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-12-08
be able to find the house where the
present belongs.

De dDie 10 LuU Tie uOuSc Where JIG
present belongs.
There are some other things, too,
in which you can assist in improving
the mail service and in saving our
great government millions of dollars
a year that is now wasted because Of
our carelessness-yours and mine.
Every day that you drop letter
in the mail box 10000, 900 other let
tiers are already pushing and jamming
thru the postal machinery. One let
ter day for each family of five per-
sons in the United States is given to
Uncle Sam to deliver.
When you send parcel to the post
office for mailing any day there are
about 100000 other parcels ahead
of yours passing thru the postal hop
per. This Isl in ordinary days; at
Christmas time it is multiplied many
times.
One family in about every ten puts
badly addressed letter in the mail
every day. This mixes up over 2,OO0,-
900 half addressed letters with the
100000 fully addressed letters.
That means that the fully addressed
letters just wait on the slow moving
poorly addressed letters Just like the
larger boys and Urls 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.
First, find out if your family is the
careless one, then bear in mind that
your letters must be handled by skill
ed mail distributors standing in post
offices and on swl: ing postal cars
of mile-a-minute mail trains, often
under poor light. ?
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 'Ifrom"
address should be in the upper left
hand corner so that the mail will be
returned to you in case it is not de-
ivered. Do not abbreviate the names
of states, because SO many look alike
when abbreviated.
Put the proper amount of postage
on your letters and wrap the 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 and
easy to read, and always use pen and
ink or typewriter and light colored
envelopes, so as to save the eyes Of the
post office clerks. Do not use en-
velopes of unusual size. The little
ences that are so frequently used for
cards and notes at Christmas and
other holiday times cause an untold
amount Of trouble and labor, as they
will not fit our cancelling machines
and must therefore be cancelled by
hand. Because Of their size and ten
dency to slip out Of a package, these
small envelopes are more likely to be
overlooked or lost.
Mall your letters and packages
early in the day, because this avoids
overlooking and delaying mail at the
end Of the day.
Your local postmaster and your
teachers will tell you more about the
postal service.
Do these things and you will win
the grateful appreciation Of the peo-
pie in your post office and especially
of your postmaster general, Will H.
Hays.
P. S.-Don't forget to mail Christ
mas packages this week.
MUSIC-Will take a limited numbe,