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SECTION B October 1W7 Postal experiment tests response time residents opinions Twenty letters 10 In Acton and In Georgetown were mailed out on October The residents were chosen at random from the telephone book Each set was mailed from the local Post Office The Ac ton letters were at the Acton postal station at The postal worker began sorting the letters at the wicket The Georgetown letters were at the Georgetown station by pm The Postmaster said mail Is picked up to be to Gateway by about He told me the let tera would be sorted that evening Tor delivery on Monday The address and phone number for each resident chosen were recorded By Monday Oct S in the afternoon three Georgetown and four Acton residents had received their Three Acton letters were returned to sender by Thursday Oct One Georgetown resident told me she received the teller Tuesday afternoon tried reach t nine residents by phone Of those a Georgetown resident and an Acton resident said their letters arrived on Monday October another Acton was received on Friday and a Georgetown letter was delivered on Wednesday October 14 One Georgetown resident said he could not recall receiving a letter from me at all Four residents two from Georgetown and Aclon could not be reached II was not a scientific experiment and I should point out that the test was done merely to give us a general impression about mail delivery in Halton Hills We can set tven from my crude data that mail delivery In Acton docs not seem any faster than in even though Acton s mall Is still sorted by hand Most of the letters or nine of 16 were delivered within hours Canada Post prescribed Unit period for local delivery One letter made it to the house within the regional threeday period or hours One letter took a full days reach its Acton destination and the lutecomer was a Georgetown letter which didnt reach the home until 12 days after It wai delivered In my opinion these two letters clear ly affected by the strike the Georgetown and members went on at Thursday Octobers In at least two cases fcd wis proven Perhaps the most interesting pan of the experiment though was Ihe comments I received from residents who phoned to tell us they received their letters An Acton resident Mrs mid she finds Ihe mall service to be slow It can take over a week to get mail from Acton Toronto she said Mrs Wayne Scolt another Aclon resident told me she finds the nor vice to be very disappointing Sometimes we don get mall at all she said II doesn matter what time or the year It is we can go all week without mail at times A third Acton resident Mrs John said she finds the service to bo too expensive for what you get Frankly I was baffled by these comments since each of these residents had received their letters by Monday morning at 11a m Yet the post office has always been an easy target an Croun Corporallon with two vocal unions and every Canadian la affected if mall Is Interrupted Many of us are locked Into a negative view of Ihe postal service especially when we learn that mall is delivered twice dally In Britain and six days per week in United States Few of us are ever pleased to learn of Increases In stamp prices when at the same time our mall delivery is cut to one round daily or removed completely to be replaced by a It Irks us even more when we hear Canada Post officials com plain that the Corporation la losing money According to a recent Maclean article Canada Post had on operating loss of million In When we hear these facts we think somehow somewhere somebody is doing something But Herald small test seems to show that for the most part our mail service as bad as we think ills Perhaps our expectations arc too high Perhaps we are so used to complaining we have never stopped to lake a good look al what were complaining about Or perhaps some of us Just getting accustomed lo bad service The answer is unclear and Canada Post t going to enlighten us Our mistake In an article on page October 14 the number of members in the physically Handicapped Citizens Affiliation was mentioned The number was incorrect The correct membership of the is Correction A story in the Oct 17 edition of the Outlook Halton Hills Mayor Miller as saying Ihe town often hears hat the police to lazy The mayor actually said the Town hears the police arc lo busy The Herald regrets this error Teachers meet A meeting of the Ontario Association of the Super Annua ted Women Teachers will be held Tuesday October at Christ Church in Brampton Queen and Elizabeth Streets A social hour will be held from Ham lo noon followed by a hot luncheon The program will include a pi forma nee by a drama group Literacy speaker The Annual General Meeting of the North Literacy Guild will take place on Tuesday Oct at p at the Halton Hills Cultural Centre The guest speaker will be Rick Parsons from Beat the Street a very successful literacy program helpfng get kids of the streets in downtown Toront Over budget At least one Regional councillor is worried that the overspending on the conference budget might leave the public with the wrong impres So far ihis year councillors have Spent approximately 000 in potential conference com The approved budget for conferences this year is only Councillor Liz wants the Region to paint a true budget picture ft leads to a certain feeling In our community hat really be here Coun said Auxiliary lunch The Georgetown Hospital will be hosting the past presidents luncheon and general meeting Oct at 1 m at the Bennett Health Care Centre Courier business booms with postal worker strike Did you Know The sacred text of Hinduism la the Veda Including the Upanisbad a col lection of rituals and mythological and philosophical commentaries a vast number of epic stories and a great variety of other literature LIZ SHAW Herald Staff Although most courier were experiencing a boom during the Inside postal workers of them will be happy to see a return to business as usual cording to local courier Andy Yates 1 would rather not a said Mr Yates Manager of Credit Valley Couriers in Mkslssauga It makes It too crazy around here Mr noted that his courier service is equipped to hondlt only so much business The increased demands that come during mail strike strain the service he con pro vide to his regular customers he said Even the profits are not thy he added The extra business may add a bit but it won be enough tint we 11 be able to retire or anything Mr Yates said Mr Yates comments were echoed John Murdoch who manages the brunch for Courier When count the extra operating costs and Ihe return is often not lis high as during tines Mr Murdocksald Mr Murdoch said although business to increase during a mail strike to priority to regular customers We want to make sure were maintaining Hit Icac of service to them he said But we want to try lo keep some of the new business we re pelting from the Post Office Andy noted that his business increased dramatically during the Letter strike in June than during Ihe recent Bui Marg Mien a driver with oomls Courier Service Lid said he summer strike did not affect Loom is business as much as the slnke re gelling close 1 1 Christmas vhen things really busy she said It been crazy around Marg Allen said she does not agree th the other couriers she welcomes a mail strike It worth jour while because ivcry new customer is a potential out of ten your business is picking up All three couriers provide over night Idler service- in the Toronto Area Credit Valley Couriers charge to send a letter from Georgetown to Toronto Loo mis iharges and Purolator charges for an overnight letter In Canada Trim shrubs or else Homeowners whose trees will have lo trim them back the bill Councillors decided Monday trim back trees shrubs and hedges of people who have been asked by Town to do it but hate not complied The landownrn will be billed for the work and if the bill Is not paid It will be added to their municipal In 1WW Currently a bylaw cohering Georgetown exists which allows Town to trim trees shrub and hedges arid send the landowners Ihe bill But no such bylaw exists covering or he Township of aid Town Operations Engineer Ted Councillor authorized staff to draw up a own wide bylaw But the Town will not trespass to the tree said Town Hob Tree trimming will occur only on a case by case basis when complaint arise Mr Austin said The Town doe not hate the manpower to examine tree hedge and shrub to see If It on other properties he said A project on the of patrolling all Town streets and sending Irt ters to private ratepayers to trim back trees shrubs or hedge on a regular basis would appear to be excessive manipulation of public Mr said SPECIAL PRICE Single Print fcn figuf 12 398 15 24exp 898 36 Sorters FREE Double Prints or Double Size with this coupon It you double print coat you only mora CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS 5x7 color enlargements for as low as 1 per picture Including film developing Only at Scoters IDA LIMITED 76 Main St South 8772761 Georgetown 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