LETTERS: GRATEFUL FOR POSTAL SERVICE

To the editor:

As a rule, we can take our hats off to the reliability of the U.S. Postal Service. We can be grateful that through rain, wind or snow the mail is delivered. And through our freedom to communicate, even junk mail has this privilege.

From those early days of the Pony Express, great strides of improvement have been made. Now we have the many advantages of first and other classes of mail service: special delivery as well as priority mail.

I once read a news item in another country in which a whole truck load of mail had been dumped into the ocean. In another country in which I lived for a time, we found it necessary to take our school stamp and cancel the stamps before taking them to the post office so that an overly zealous clerk would not be able to remove the stamps and use them for his own benefit.

In every are of service, one may find a few delinquents. But as a rule, they are soon relieved of their jobs by more competent and reliable people.

So much of our business and legal transactions depend upon the honesty, integrity and reliability of the employees.

Regardless of how much one may complain about the inefficiency of our Postal Service, it is among the finest in the world. The price is very reasonable, and now stamps are even self-adhesive.

Remember the expression "post haste." One cannot say that the service is perfect, but comparatively speaking, I am grateful for the degree of efficiency and punctuality of our postal service which permits us to communicate with others in a busy world. Has the mail come yet?

IVAN NOTHDURFT

Cape Girardeau