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Dear Editor:

Because I read in a brochure
issued by Canada Post that the
Supermailboxes were to be viewed
as “‘Community Mail Centres,” I
was encouraged one frosty morn-
ing to suit up and to join the little
crowd in front of the Super-
mailbox that enhances the corner
of my property.

All of the ladies were equipped

_ with cans of de-icer, and the thrill

of communal gossip was lacking.
No smiles eased the below zero
temperature; no new recipes were
being exchanged. In fact, the fone
male present was actually kicking
the box.

The group fell back at my ap-
proach, and knowing looks were
exchanged as I tried to insert my

MaILBox

key. And tried. And tried. The
Supermailbox, made for the Ca-
nadian climate, was frozen solid.
My husband opened our box
with the assistance of his little
propane torch. Technology trium-

phs.

The next day, I observed that
the mailman had opened both big
doors of the box and was inserting
mail, careful not to get his fingers

TV is ‘pretty pictures, baby-babble’

Dear Editor:.

It was refreshing to read Bob
Hunter’s harangue on the medium
of television. .

1 would subscribe to Neil!
Postman’s edict in his book Amus-
ing Ourselves to Death that televi-
sion has simply trivialized

in our lives. When
otherwise serious discourses are
swallowed up by television and
forced to dance in the arena of
prime-time entertainment, they are
somewhat de-legitimized.

If, in the space of one minute,
television tells us that a) we are
essentially destroying the protec-
tive elements of our atmosphere

and must do something before it’s
too late and b) disposable diapers

_ come in blue and pink, how are we

to react?

Surely if ours is a culture that
has time to worry about what color
of non-biodegradable plastic
wrappage we are securing to our
babies’ bottoms, this ozone thing
couldn't be that bad.

I believe in advertising. I just
don’t believe television should take
itself too seriously if it is going to
transmit ‘“‘information’’ and buy
signals all wrapped up in a neat
“entertainment package.”’

When you consider television as
pure technology and human

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When you concider it as a serious
medium of communication, it is
disappointing. It’s just pretty pic-
tures and baby-babble.

Ritchie Morrison

West Vancouver

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frost-bitten. I rushed outside and
asked his back — he never turned
around, duty apparently
superseding manners — whether
he realized that the Supermailbox
keys would not work in freezing
weather.

With great disinterest he said
one word: no.

I then suggested that, as he had

the doors open and I could see my
mail in its little slot, I could have
it. He was vastly affronted and
told me, as he shut the doors with
a chilling clunk, that I had to use
my key.
It’s too bad that the folks
around here have only dogs or cats
for pets. I’m waiting for the day
when someone moves in with a
dragon.

Mary Kerr
North Vancouver

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“I challenge anyone
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