As a result of my observations over the last year or so, it now appears to me, that if one writes a letter in the old style, it just gets ignored. It isn't just happening in the paper either. Several letters I have written to firms in this time, have also vanished into the blue, never to be heard of again.

They tell us we are in a new age of communication and it seems that unless it is electronic, then nobody wants to be bothered with anything else. The message seems to be that unless you are prepared to 'follow the flock”, then 'the flock” don't want to know. More common sense down the drain.

R McGuinness, Tauranga City