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City Dear Editor: Canadians are served by about 6,000 post offices. Those in cities deliver to the door by letter carrier service. Most of the 5,200 smaller offices have no delivery to your door. You go to the post office for . " oe, . Home delivery Door to door mail service may become a thing of the past. But does it really mat- folks shoul your mail or to your rural mail box. In growing cities with developing areas "Super Boxes" are proposed. We outside the urban areas see this as quite acceptable. We have walked or driven to the post office or box for our mail all our lives. We believe most people in Canada's towns, villages and rural areas do not want super boxes. We want to continue to receive the excellent service the post masters and staffs of the 5,200 post offices are ter? Some communities are fighting just to keep their post office. providing. In the interest of fairness we suggest all Canadians now receiving letter carrier service be given the option of having it continued by paying a fee or, say $20 to $52 a year for the service, or going to the post office or box for their mail like the rest of us. Those receiv- ing rural mail delivery all walk or drive to their box for the mail. Some go two, three or more city blocks to get it. Fair is fair. Under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms should we, outside the Post office a symbol Dear Editor: Rural Dignity is a grassroots movement whose spirit and values are expressed, we hope, in our name. Our founding day was December 14, 1986 when over 600 people represen- ting British Columbia to Newfoundland gathered in the parish church of Esprit Saint, a village in Eastern Quebec. Since then, we've shared in an adventure of our own making. Rural Dignity has taken shape lit- tle by little, meeting by meeting, in schools, coffee shops, at town councils and in community halls. We organized around the issue of rural post office closure and privatization. This remains the present focus of our work. The post office is vital to a village's well-being. It has also become an important sym- bol for us. Having lost our schools, town councils, and train stations, we feel the post office is the last in- stitution which at once Keeping on the lookout Dear Editer: Attention all former Where is tax money best spent? Dear Editor: s If Midland Reeve, Bev Day is so opposed to the town donating a modest sum of money toward help- ing retired citizens of Midland establish a lifeskills centre, on the pretense of protecting the public purse, how come he supported a Simcoe Coun- ty Council expenditure of $6,500 to bankroll the County Warden's banquet and dance recently held at the posh Highland Inn, At the Nov. Midland council meeting, Day prais- ed his Midland colleague on County Council, Deputy-Reeve Nancy Keefe, for doing what he described as a "'super" job in helping to arrange the '""super"' Warden's Highland social affair. The -Reeve was somewhat selective, however, in what he told those present at the coun- cil session and television audience regarding the "super" festive event. For example, he neglected to tell them about the "super" $6,500 expenditure of tax- payers' money involved in staging the gala function. William J. Ogilvie Belleville Sea Cadets, Of- ficers and Navy League members: The R.C.S.C.C. Quinte is looking for all former sea cadets to help them celebrate their 60th an- niversary as a corp. This reunion will be tak- ing place at the ship in May 1988. If you have not been con- tacted by the Navy League Committee and are in- terested in attending this reunion please contact: Sally Mott, Reunion Com- mittee, 28 Lexington Cres- cent, Belleville, Ontario, K8P 411. We would_be pleased to hear from you and if you know of any addresses of ex-cadets or officers please forward the information to the above and help make this reunion a _ huge success. Sally Mott Reunion Committee Navy League of Canada Quinte Branch Victorian STOCKING STUFFERS BOOKMARKS MINI JAMS \ PRE-CHRISTMAS Monday to Saturday 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. The Village Store 11 Queen St. East Elmvale 322-1983 maintains our individual identity and links us with the rest of the country. We work by volunteer committees and have no of- ficial memberships. We are farmers and fishermen, teachers, and community development workers, business people and municipal officials, clergy and seniors. We are of all ages and political persua- sions. What we share is a vision for rural Canada. We believe villages have the potential to offer, as they have done historical- ly, a rich, integrated way of life. We know we must not allow the de-population of our countryside to be dismissed as an "historical inevitability." We know very specific economic policies and a relentless push to centralism are threatening to kill us. We work for not only the sur- vival, but the flourishing of rural Canada. We envisage not a naive return to the past, but a new, creative alliance with urban Canada, an alliance based on the sharing of knowledge and respect. Gilles Raymond, President, Rural Dignity of Canada d pay for mail delivery cities, demand delivery to our door? No! We are not asking for this. Rural peo- ple have been "'going to the mail" for 100 years. Most are willing to continue. But we think those who are getting it delivered to the building in which they live should and would be willing to pay something extra for the extra service they receive. We believe our view is shared by many millions of Canadians living in the vast area of Canada not get- ting letter carrier service. Paul M. 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