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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1975-03-13, Page 12PAGE 2/14-I.:QOM' RICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1975 SUGAR 'N' SPICE 5 bij 0111 SMILEY I have personally had it, with' the Canadian Postal Service, so I am sick to death of postal strikes andthreatsof•strikes- And 1 almost throw up every time Honorable Bryce Mackasey, minister in charge of the post), office, comes on television-fo state bluntly that postal employees 1at year stole only a „million dollars or whatever, which is just a drop' in the bucket, and that we have the third best postal" service in the world. His first statement prac- tically condones theft by public employees. His second must be something he halucinated while recovering front an overdose of stamp glue. Admitted, that for years, postal employees were sorely underpaid, and most of them were in the job only for the .security it offered. But the security is still there, and they are now far frormr--4-,--v sorely underpaid. Some of them, in view of what they do, and the, relatively simple qualifications required, may be overpaid, in comparison with some other jobs. , talk of suing the post office because they are not drawing their pay when they are not working, even though they are not on strike. Can you figure , Admitted, many postal jobs - are 'unexciting, even boring and monotonous. This is no excuse for the flouting of the publics needs, or fOr the thumb -to -the - nose attitude towards the .government, employer of the postal workers. .-----•Nobody-foreed-those, , 4 'to work in the post 'office. Plenty of other jobs are just as monotonous. If they wanted that out? It makes my head. reel. This week, I sent a letter "special delivery." It cost me 48 cents in postage. To make me expend such a sum, " the letter had to be mighty im- portant. It's sitting in a post office, unsorted, in which the employees are NOT on strike. v me? that postia peop, e had enough. Who'll join And in closing, may I add 1 don't put the blame on the I union, not all of it. These le are human and w , reach for all they can get. The real root -of my rage and " the fifth -rate Canadian postal non -service is the :gutless in Ottawa. ill politicians • Standard AUTO GLASS LIMITED THE GLASSMEN OF ONTARIO For vinyl tops • convertible tops • car uphOlslery • windshields • body protective mouldings 365 BAYFIELD RD. GODERICH CALL 524-2136 Come to Where the Values Are m A&P "•'. • SUPER -RIGHT CANADA GRADE "A" BEEF • SHORT RIB ROAST iiENTiliiiNGSTEAKS BONELESS BLADE ROAST or • SHORT RIB ROAST Ib IBLADE BONE IN BLADEROAST excitement whydidret-thergo into high steel work or massage parlors? Isn't it about time for a showdown? Either Canada gets a first rate postal service, as we tsed to have, or we scrap the whole thing and turn it over to priyate enterprise. , In my far from •humble opinion, the latter cm/Se , should have been taken years 'or .the past several decades, the performance of the post office in this country has been a dismal one. Each year, efficiency decreases;, each year the costs vilaSe. :Each. iiew broom appointed as minister has carefully swept the dirt under the rug, instead of out the door. I think it's too late for a purge in the post office, which has become so constipated that nothing • short of dynamite would move those turgid bowels'. •-No new minister has the guts ' to go in and ream out the dottle. of the public pipeline. It would be his head on a platter if he tried. Nope: It's too late fi,r half measures. It's time to put the Whole shambling, sick, half- ,-.,„....Lparatyied- leviathan on the auction block, and sell it to the highest bidder: buildings bricks, equipment and jobs. And let's not get any phony •nationalism mixed up in it. If one of the new rich oil countries' wants to buy the mess and put it in running order, why not? Canadians can't do. it, ap- . parently. You think this is too drastic? It seems the only alternative we have to limping along with a postal system that the word "rotten" inadequately•" - describes. You .think something as big' and important as the'postal non -system should be con- trolled by the government? Hogwash! Anyone with ears, to, hear or eyes to read knows that government. is notably inef- ficient as an employer. LeVs look at one example. We two transcontinental railways.. CPR privately owned, has shown a thumping profit year after year. The CNR, government owned, highly subsidized, is always in. the red. You think I'm a little hot today? You're right. Postal strikes have cost me con- siderable, cin terms of anxiety and cash. And Vm only' a little frog. 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