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Rh property and ought to be respected. The expense of cleaning and repairing post offices all through the country is enormous. Every boy and girl who is careful not to spill ink or mar woodwork, or drop mucilage, or scatter papers in the town post office is doing something helpful for the Government.

Uncle Sam employs an army of special mail clerks who are known as blind readers. As a matter of fact these clerks have the sharpest eyes of any in the entire postal service, because they have to read misspelled and poorly written addresses. They have to try to decipher the address on a letter that no regular mail clerk could possibly read, so that it may reach its destination. If you write the name of a city and forget the state, a blind clerk must know in what state that city is.

Your greatest help to Uncle Sam, postman, is to learn to write a good, plain hand, and address your letters and packages so carefully that no blind clerks will be needed.

Post office business has to be learned just like any other business. It will make the work of the postman and the postmaster easier if boys and girls learn as munch as they can about the Government’s postal regulations. Ask your mother or your teacher to show you some of the important