SPEAK OUT

Post office elves

THE POST office in Jackson is awesome. My husband put 21 Christmas cards in the mail by mistake. He forgot to put stamps on them. I called the post office, and the man there went and picked all 21 cards out. Then my husband went back to the post office and put stamps on them. No place I know would do that. You are great, Jackson Post Office. Merry Christmas.

Need IQ testing

ALL THESE Speak Out comments are really laughable reading. The Republicans say how the Democrats are and vice versa. There should be an IQ test for all of them on political matters so all them would know what they are speaking about.

Thanks for carols

THANK YOU, Southeast Missourian, for the spirit of Christmas with your publication of "An Old-fashioned Christmas" with all our favorite Christmas songs. How very thoughtful and much appreciated. Merry Christmas to the Southeast Missourian and all its staff. Keep the good news rolling.

Where are directories?

YOU KEEP rerunning that news article about how we should recycle our old telephone directories. What I want to know is where I can get a new one. They only left one. I have four phones.

Page 3 of the new directory tells Southwestern Bell customers to call 1-800-SWB-BOOK (1-800-792-2665) to request additional copies of the directory. Directories for other areas may also be ordered for an additional charge.

Let's do testing

IT IS funny. Before this election, who ever heard of a dimpled chad or a hanging chad? Or so many people who can't read or punch a simple ballot? Before the next election ,we should install a literacy test for the voters. And a lie-detector test for the candidates and their lawyers.

Stern warning

THE HEADLINE on a recently published Southeast Missourian editorial was "Cooperation, bipartisanship? It can happen." However the content of the editorial seemed to me a rather stern warning from the Southeast Missourian that it sure as heck shouldn't.

Fighting for the purse

I'M CONVINCED now that the winner of the White House, whether it's the Republican Party or the Democratic Party, takes the purse just like a wrestling or boxing match. There's a winner and a loser. The winner gets the purse. The loser gets the next amount of money. I believe that's what these Republicans and Democrats were fighting for.

Not all the votes

YOU DEMOCRATS kept saying that you wanted all the votes counted, but you sure didn't want the absentee ballots counted in Seminole and Martin counties. And you sure didn't want the votes counted by our military personnel.

Baseless charges

THE NAACP has been saying it will very easily prove that there were voter irregularities in Florida aimed particularly minority voters. What's most interesting is that these alleged irregularities happened primarily in Democratic counties. So it would seem that if the charges are true, it would be the Democrats who are guilty of harming African-Americans in their ability to vote. However, since it has been more than a month since the election and still not a single allegation has been proven, we must believe that these were baseless charges simply to bring up support for Al Gore.