Editor:
Recently, I was fortunate enough to celebrate my 93rd birthday.
Having a few friends scattered here and there, one 90-year-old friend in London, Ont. mailed me a birthday card.
Her only mistake was in omitting the suite number on the envelope. Everything else was correct.
The letter was returned to sender.
My friend had to find another envelope and affix another postage stamp, before I finally received my birthday card.
I live in a 26-unit condo building, and this has been my address for almost 25 years. I have a mailbox in the building, which has my name on it. There is no one else with my name in the building.
I was informed by the mail carrier that the address was incomplete, and therefore had to be returned. That is the rule.
When I took this up with post-office headquarters, somewhere Back East, I was informed unequivocally that mail without a unit number is deemed to be undeliverable!
I feel that with a rule so hard and fast, the post office is ignoring the reason they are in existence, and should once in a while allow the carrier to use his brains.
John Maxwell, White Rock
