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Mail service is still bad

I have lived on McCoy Avenue for 22 years, and I have never had such terrible mail service. It is 7 p.m., and I still have no mail.

My insurance forms were mailed April 10 from Campbell, and I still haven't received them. Also, I get other people's mail and I get what people called misdirected mail.

I have written the postmaster three times and reported this poor service to the federal Postal Service, who in turn reported it to the Saratoga post office. This did nothing to improve service.

Within the last six months, there have been two times no mail was delivered. Both times, it was a Friday night.

I work part time, and my check arrives by mail. It is usually two or three days late.

More than a year ago, there was to be a meeting scheduled to discuss this very problem. If there was such a meeting, nothing has been solved, except the service is worse.

I hope something will come of this letter, but I doubt that anything will improve.

Nanette McCarthy
McCoy Avenue

Carol Montgomery is an inspiration

The article "Starting Over" by Sandy Sims, in the March 25 edition of the Saratoga News, was very well done. The article was thought-provoking, insightful and a reminder that everything we know as reality could change in a heartbeat.

Two days before Christmas in 1974, I left work a couple hours early, filled with the excitement of the holidays. I was hit by a drunk driver just a few blocks from my home. As a survivor of a drunk-driving accident, this article was also very painful for me to read.

While society is now demanding some reparation from the tobacco companies for all the pain and suffering their products cause, very little mention is made of the alcohol industry.

It is with the same determination and zeal that the distillery companies in America sell their products. Their commercials say we will live fun-filled lives, looking eternally young and beautiful, our lives will be better if we use their products, life is one big party.

Where is the party for Carol Montgomery? What kind of party for the parents and families of the thousands killed by drunk drivers yearly in this country?

Alcoholism is a disease, and the education of our youth concerning the use/ abuse of alcohol should be carried out with the same zeal as the efforts used to sell alcohol.

Carol Montgomery is truly an inspiration. She has made the biggest pitcher of lemonade ever! My heart wishes for her fulfillment of her goals and a pain-free life.

Although not one day goes by that I am not in pain from my injuries, my discomfort pales in comparison to what this courageous woman must endure. I felt buoyed by her determination for independence.

Marylin McCarthy
Cupertino

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