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Postal hike ... Terrace Bay-Schreiber News, Wednesday, May 8, 1985, page 15 Give MIPs your 2 cents worth By TONY CARLSON If you're mad as you know what, you don't have to take it any more. The price hike for postage has many of us boiling, but there is a chance of turning the tide. "e BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES Free Career Guide describes 200 learn-at-home correspondence diploma courses: accounting, art, bookkeeping, business manage- ment, clerk typist, secretary, journalism, television servicing, travel. Granton (5A) 263 Adelaide - West Toronto., 1-800-268-1121. M-07 5 ELT STE SEITE ANNOUNCEMENTS Adventure awaits you. Come ride the whitewater all summer long with Wildemess Tours, Canada's leading whitewater outfitter. For information and reservations call 1-800-267-3124. M-07 Strongman competition. Saturday May 11th and Sunday, May 12th Bobby Orr Arena, Parry Sound. Wristwrestling, sandbag carry, barbel jerk, loaded wheelbarrow - cash prizes. Competitors. Phone toll free 1-800-461-4261. 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Steel circular saws, handsaws, also retoothing, chain saws, Chisels, mower blades, scissors, etc. Ludwig Kimmerle, 30 Yawkey Ave. Marathon. M-29 Dates Galore. For all ages and unattached. Thousands of members anxious to meet you. Prestige Acquaintances call toll free 1-800-263-9163. Hours noon till 8 p.m. M-07 Lose weight easily! Have you tried every diet and failed because of willpower? Then Cybernetics is the answer. For free Cybemetic cassette call 1-800-263-0512. M-07 Unless the government steps in, the cost of a first- class letter will be jacked up to 34 cents on June 24 - a 100 per cent rise in just . four years - and rates in all other categories will follow suit. How many other items on your shopping list have doubled in price in that time? To add insult to injury, the post office defends the increases, gloating that there have been none for two years. Hey gang, they add, we also settled with our unions (most of them anyway) without subjecting you to a strike. Where's your beef? Awfully decent, we say, but wait just a minute. How can you justify an increase when: © your productivity is still at 1972 levels, before you spent all those millions on high tech gadgets to allegedly move the mail faster? © it costs us nearly 48 per cent more to mail a let- ter than it does our U.S. neighbours and our postal system is 40 per cent less productive? © labor costs account for 73 per cent of Canada Post's spending compared to only 55 per cent in the dark ages of 1970 BHT (Before High Tech)? But never mind, Michael * Warren and Company. It's out of your hands now and into the government's cor- ner, where lies the real power to veto the increase and bring some sense to this saga of soaring rates. That's where the public can come in, advising its elected representatives to hang tough. For surely this is the first test of the resolve of the government which won such a huge mandate last summer. "*The Mulroney govern- ment has talked a great deal about all Canadians having to improve productivity and be more competitive," says John Bulloch, presi- dent of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. '*Now it is time for that government to show leadership in both those areas by refusing to ap- prove the postal increase. "'The business com- munity and the public are looking more and more at the federal government's deeds, not just at its words. If these damaging postal in- creases are rubber-stamped by this government, its credibility will be severe- ly shaken." He's right. But Ottawa must still be convinced that tates are a problem. Sure, there's a Gallup poll which shows that 81.5 per cent of us say any hike is unwarranted. But wouldn't our political leaders be more impressed if bags of protest mail piled up on Parliament Hill urging a rollback of the increase? You can bet that our in- dividual members of Parliament would feel the heat if thousands of us wrote to them care of House of Commons, Parliament Buildings, Ot- tawa, K1A OA6. We could even exercise our right to send letters to our MPs without postage. Further- more, because they are usually sensitive to the at- titudes of the folks back home, we could contact their local riding offices. It's a long-shot; but worth a try. REALTY LIMITED Simcoe Plaza, Box 715 Terrace Bay 4 bedroom Lindal Cedar Home, 1556 sq. ft. on dou- ble sized lot. Southside deck 14' x 30'. Balcony off huge master bedroom. Custom made oak cup- boards. Carpeting throughout. Rec room. For ap- pointment to view, Please call toll free (ask for Dave Douglas) between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. After 5 p.m. call 623-0896. Asking price $80,000. NO AGENTS PLEASE Consider this 4 bedroom Bi-level, attached garage and finished rec room for $86,900.00. At today's costs of building, you.could not get a builder to replace this home for what you could: buy it for. : 10 Timber Grove : This Bi-level is located on one of the nicest cul-de-sacs in the new subdivision. It is within walking distance B USLNESS 345-2307 "WE GIVE A CARE" FURNITURE & APPLIANCES | South Court St., at Fort William Road Thunder Bay, Ont. Open Tues., Wed., Sat. 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m, Thurs. & Fri. 9a.m. to9 p.m. Closed Mondays. 30,60,90 Day No Interest Scotia Plan Available == FREE LAY-A-AWAY S® he Tel 825-3678 ! silks, fresh cut flowers, '"\; arrangements and. plants Pins atta Tilden Rent-a-car Service Spadoni Bros. Ltd. Cars & Trucks, daily, weekly, monthly & long term leasing. Elcor Construction Ltd | CUSTOM BUILT HOMES, RENOVATIONS & ADDITIONS KITCHEN CABINETS FRAMING & TRIMMING, POURED FOUNDATIONS SIDING & WINDOWS Terrace Bay Directory | Birch Motors Ltd. 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