Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 14 Dec 1933, p. 55

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ment at Washington a bulletin urging fthe public to co-operate .with the local office in expediting mail delivery by 'using greater care in addressing mail matter. The quantity of insuffi- ciently addressed matter is coristantly on the increase, the bulletin states, and the departrnent desires to reduce it, to a minimum. If the followving. in- structionis are carried out many dimi-, culties, will bo overcome: Cive, Iustructtioiiis "1. Irint or write legibly the coMplete naine, nutniber, Street, po,.-t- office, and State.* In lieu of streét and.number the addressin ay be a post office box or rural route. In any event Write the Mlost conipete address available. "2. Avoid atybreviations which iniay be miseadlng, suçh as -C al.. often rnis-i taken for "Col.,*' "Miss;.," often niistaken for "Mitin.," etc. 1 .1i . 3. The sender should write or prin t his naine in the upper left hand corner. . 4. If a comnpIete address is flot, ob - tainable. the best address. available ehould be used. with any descriptive wovrds which ,will aid in the delivery, such as "Merchant," "Clerk," etc. "5. If the addressee is a "riin, indicate by the, words -Generali Delivery," or "Transient." -6. In Short, afflix an address which will enable postal cierks to make proper distribution, and carriers to readily deliver the mail." Asku Extra Precautiom To the above M:Shantzàadds ant- other 'suggestiton, that the address bc placed inside the package also, so that iii case the Nvrapper is damaged and the outside address destroved it mnay bc readily ascertaiined by lit- specting the inside. During the - year 1932 there w.ere over 170,000,M)0 pieces of insufficient- 13, addressed mrail déposited ini the post offices of the country, the bulle- tini states, of which over 17,000,000 .*cached the Division of Dead Letters and Dead Parcel Post and the dead- letter branches thereof, and tri thils dead-letter mail thus poorly or in- sufficiently addressed was found more than $90,000 in cash. In view of the above, -Mr. Shantz said, it mighit be well to cali the at-, tention of the patrons of the Wil- mete office as to the quantity of matter without proper addresses, re- to 5, nry cards mas. ,033 pieces. In persons did flot and parcels until pee n Special-ew«ID ays Ol ON Pathfinder and Ail Weather Tires BY TRADING IN. YQUR OLD TIRES; COME IN TODAY.. Look at Goodyear 21 ..... $ 5 21 ...... 6. 19 ..... 6. * -o- Cli nton W. Demmon, Jr., Raleigh road, Kenilworib, ret from Dartmouth -December.22 spend- his, Christmas holidays wil family. LYNAN SERVICE STATION 415 RIDGE AVE., WIL. 542,6 SHAWNEE SERVICEi GARAGE Blp 4TH ST., WIL. 636, k ils1 SHIMONEK SERVICE 803 MAIN ST.. WIL,. 8347 COMMUN ITY AUTO SERVICE. 1823 WILMKTTE AVE., WIL. 5348 Av. 3212 p di %OFF Cost W "I

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