Letters, Sept. 6, 2024: ‘Not finished with snail mail just yet’

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Personal touch

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Re: “Days of the Post Office have come to an end” (Jerry Agar, Sept. 3): Sorry, Jerry Agar, but a number of us out here still value good old Canada Post. My wife and I still mail our Christmas cards (am I allowed to still use the word Christmas?), we mail birthday and anniversary cards which we and our friends find much more personal than e-cards. When given the option of receiving statements and other correspondence via digital or snail mail, I always choose the latter. We may be in the minority, but these days being in the majority doesn’t seem to matter.

MIKE O’HEARN

(The times are changing and Canada Post doesn’t have much of a viable future. Drastic changes will need to be so you can still send your Christmas cards in the post)

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Slow as molasses

I think Albertans should be calling the Alberta NDP Leader “Molasses Nenshi,” because he still hasn’t kept his number one campaign promise: To break all ties to the federal NDP. In a race between Molasses Nenshi keeping his promise or Christmas coming first to Alberta, I’m betting on Christmas!

CHRIS ROBERTSON

(They can cut ties, but they still share many of the same goals.)

Investigation needed

Re: Ethics questions for federal civil service (Editorial, Sept. 2). The article suggests it is about a change in culture. It’s not a change in culture that is needed, it’s a criminal investigation needed to bring about real-life consequences for the obvious fraudulent behaviour of this current administration. An $80k budget to $60 million (for ArriveCan)? And this is a cultural problem, not a criminal problem? The gov’t needs to be reminded that they answer to US, not the other way around.

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KARA MAILLOUX

(There needs to be real repercussions for bad management of public money.)

Won’t buy it this time

Re: It’ll take more than joy to re-elect Grits, editorial (Editorial, Aug. 29). Kudos for your very truthful editorial. Now devoid of original ideas after nine long years as prime minister, Justin Trudeau is simply borrowing this new theme, that Liberals are full of joy and hope, from the U.S. and the Kamala Harris Democrats. I doubt that, after Trudeau promised them Sunny Ways way back in 2015, Canadians will once again buy into the jingle he is peddling this time. Canadians know that under Trudeau they are paying far more for food, gasoline, heating their homes — if they can afford to buy one — and just about everything else. This has been caused by Trudeau’s irresponsible, ideologically driven spending. Trudeau needs to be shown the door before bankrupting Canada, something his father nearly did.

LARRY COMEAU

(Canadians are no longer buying what he’s selling.)

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