The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Monday, August 1, 1994                 TAG: 9407280008
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A8   EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Letter 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   17 lines

MAIL PRIORITY SKEWED

Our postal system is for the birds. It took six days to get a registered envelope delivered to Chicago. It only takes junk mail two days from Illinois.

HERMAN J. COVEY

Portsmouth, July 20, 1994 by CNB