Milford chronicle., 1925-06-05
MUCH WASTE In MAILING;
START EDUCATION CAMPAIGN
Many Letters And Packages Are
Carelessly Addressed Annually

An intensive educational campaign
with the view OF reducing large
waste OccasiOned by careless ad-
dressing OF mail matter has been
started by the Post Office Depart
ment under the direction of Post
master General New.
New believes $2,00O,0O0 could be
saved annually if the public took
more care in addressing letters and
other mail matter. Better mailing
practices, he said, would divert to
constructive channels the huge
amount of money now lost, princi-
pally through carelessness.
Business, civic and fraternal or
ganizations throughout the country
have pledged their aid in the cam
paign. Twelve thousand moving pic
ture theatres will run the Depart
ment's slogans urging greater care
in addressing. Hundreds Of news
papers also have assured their CO.
operation by disclosing to their
readers the extent of the waste and
the way in which it may be elm
mated.
There is something of sacredness
about the contents of a letter." the
Department said. 1.-THE writer often
reveals more of himself on the writ
ten page than he would in direct
conversation. This revelation of
course, is designed only for the eyes
of the correspondent.
In this country a wholesome re-
spect has been built up for the |
1F hit SeY ,1A
respected in many other countries
where the opening and reading of
sealed mail becomes, at times, so
prevalent that the practice has earn
ed the appellation Of cracking
SEALS"
"The average American would be
filed with wrath and the timid soul
would shrink with horrors at the
thought of third person, and a
stranger at that, reading his per-
sonal correspondence.
Failure of letter writer's to put
return addresses on their envelopes"
the Department said, annually
causes more than 21,000,000 letters
to be opened by the Dead Letter Of
flee.
"There it is opened and read-not
for possible scandal it may contain
but with the view to finding some
clue which will enable forwarding to :
the address or returning to the
sender.
"Out of every five letters received
at the Dead Letter Office such a clue
is found in one, and it is sent mer- S
rily on its way to one or the other t
of the two persons most interested I
in its disposition. The other four '
are destroyed.
Every person knows his own ad- u
dress and if he would put it on the Il
envelope, the contents would remain p
lnviOlate and the letter would be re- f
turned with notice of non-delivery.
Mike" is the name applied by IL
The Department to mail matter, re- m
moved from regular postal machin- N
cry for directory SERVICE" or "hos- h,
Dital treatment" because of faulty, r
or incorrect address of v
improper wrapping.
"The period of existence of a
Mike" the Department said, 'is the D'
most expensive one. It demands V'
pecial attention from the very best u
clerks. Valuable time is spent in NJ
is behalf, time which also may te
rove costly to the mailer or intend ps
d recipient through the attendant Z.
clay.
"But in the long run, the postal an
ervice loses most. In Chicago 400 Nj
Torkers do nothing but handle PI
Mixes" In New York the service Nj
osts $500 daily. In all the "Nixies" 10
ost the government about $1,740,- Oh
DO a year. MI
In taking care to place a return
ddress on mail matter, the public N
ould go long way, New believes, "
assisting in abolition of the Dead
offor OA8oo