| Show SHOP EARLY MAIL EARLY again gift time is approaching and with great pleasure the merchants are looking forward to the coming weeks when the throngs will I 1 come to do their christmas shopping at this time of 0 the year it might noti not he be amiss to once more impress the shoppers with the advice shop early by following this advice the purchasers will profit tor for themselves first because the early shoppers will find the lines complete and large varieties to chose from and will be able to do the shopping with more comfort avoiding the big crowds at the same time they will bestow a favor upon the clerks who are humans only and are under a great stress when trying to wait on great multitudes another piece of advice we are giving at this time of the year is to mail early and in this slogan we agree with postmaster general new who calls upon the pubic to cooper co oper ate with the tha postoffice Post office department in handling the holiday malls mails the postmaster general says the first duty of the fice department is to see that all mall mail re garless of its classification is delivered promptly but he asks the public to be considerate of the employees who must handle this vast amount of mail I 1 the thousands of employed emp loyes in the I 1 postal system says postmaster itei general era I 1 new are nat not mere cogs in a machine but human beings who are entitled to the same consideration that is duo any othor othey citizen or group of citizens the letter carriers and mail clerks are just as anxious x io u s t to 0 spend christmas at home with hear families and children as is the average citizen everyone realizes that the country is in an extremely prosperous condition the mails have been unusually heavy for the past year and the department anticipates a far greater volume of postal business this christmas time than it has ever had before it Is the desire of everyone in the postal service that prompt and efficient service be given to the people at all times and in anticipation of oc this great rush during december the postoffice Post office department has been fortunate in securing the active operation cooperation co of the motion picture theater owners of america american federation ol of labor united states chamber of commerce and its many branches boards of trade throughout tho the country numerous civic organizations better business bureaus organizations tho the merchants and manufacturers association cia tion and hundreds of advertisers throughout tile the country who in their advertisements are arc going to use these words shop early mail early mail often that the departments first responsibility for the prompt delivery of mail be satisfied satis fed fico officials most earnestly urge that every man mail woman and child do their christmas shopping early that they mail th their air packages early and that business men throughout tile tho country mail often ten it is suggested to tile the shopper to 0 write out his or her buying list to today day d do 0 their shopping tho the first or second week 0 tile the holiday sea season son they can mark on those these things not to be opened until christmas they can call then mail the package that or the next day thus will tho heartbreaking burden of christmas congestion be more evenly distributed thus will be relieved the strain upon the clerks in tile the stores throughout the country thus will tile the usually overworked postal clerks and carriers be given an opportunity of doing some christmas shop shopping prig of their own and thus will the postoffice post office be enabled to fulfill its obligations to its patrons and eliminate the of tho the delayed gift |
