Saturday, March 15, 2008

Regarding the March 5 Reliable Source item "A Warped Lens on D.C. Party Scene":

The caption above the photographs of Reed Landry and Liz Glover stated that, according to Glover, Landry "went postal" on her camera.

I was shocked, appalled and dismayed to read this term in your newspaper. "Going postal" carries a hideous and degrading connotation regarding the many thousands of dedicated postal workers, of which I was one before I retired eight months ago, who process and deliver mail daily, many times under adverse conditions.

Isn't it time to stop promoting this onerous term, especially in print?

-- Barbara Babineau

Arlington