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Dear Editor

Thank vou vers much tor sour
News Viewpoint on the post office
in the Sunday, August 3 News, |
and the other letter carriers who
tan in the West Vancouver post
office found it most entertaining.

Indeed, it was a splendid exain-
ple of what psychologists call The
Law of Certainty’, which states
that: ‘The degree of conviction
with which a person holds an opi-
nion on a given subject increases in
proportion to his ignorance of that
subject.’’

We were all fascinated to learn
that we make $32,000 per annum.
Gosh, I have my 1985 T4 right
here and it says 1 only made
$26,047 in 1985. This is before all
personal deductions and taxes.

It also includes over $1,000 in
voluntary overtime and approx-
imately $200 in ‘commissions for
flyer delivery, which is highway
robbery to private enterprises.*”

This latter comment puzzles me
because the private sector is free to
compete with the post office for
flyer business. We get most of it
because we are more competitive,
how is this robbery?

Anyway, 1 am too dumb to fig-
ure all this out (being just a letter
carrier) but my mommy Says either
ft am making $5,953 more than I
realize, or the author of your col-
umn doesn't know what he is tak-
ing about.

Had your columnist bothered to
talk to a letter carrier, to get our
opinion of management's decision
to deny home delivery to new sub-
divisions, he would have found
that we do not like it either.

ft is however, a rather typical

salary
editorial
refuted

Dear Editor:

Regarding News Viewpoint,
Deliver Efficiency (August 3).

Whoever wrote this article must
be sitting on his brains. The repor-
ting is very inaccurate with regards
to letter carrier salaries.

My T4 slip for 1985 shows
$27,505.87 gross annual salary.
Please inform me of ihe carrier
who does make $32,000 annually
— with my seniority I can bump
him from this position and get that
kind of salary.

Letter carriers, since their jobs
tequire a lot of watking do of
course get a lot of exercise. That’s
common sense, something you
wouldn't have or know about.

As for the suntans, well blame
God for letting the sun shine, but
not the letter carriers.

The North Shore News has a lot
of its own character defects. Why
don't you work on them first be-
fore you start making up stories on
other businesses?

One more point — the $2.21
billion dollars in salaries: did you
know that the manager in Ottawa
makes over $200,000 annually try-
ing to manage the post office? And
he doesn’t even get the benefits of
any exercise or sunshine.

D.A. Oslund
North Vancouver

decision obs oa manarerrad
burcauchacs that attempts too save
money bs cutunme back on service
tothe pubhe rather than by curting
back on its own bloated mefticien-
cy.

Pardon me. ft is always in good
taste to dump on the post office

ivers reply

(and eapesnils co postal workers)
When one has nothing intelligent to
wee about. Tacky of me to in
trude. Besides, bunch is almost
over and my suntan needs miore
work,

Raymond VJ. Andrews

North Vancouver

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