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

DATE: Friday, December 9, 1994               TAG: 9412090008
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A22  EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Letter 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   25 lines

WHERE IS REWARD FOR LOYALTY?

As I sat down to pay my phone bill this month, it occurred to me that my long-distance company has never rewarded me for staying with it.

Never have I been lured into another ``fold,'' and I've never gotten so much as a simple ``Thank you.'' Yet, subscribers who choose to bounced from one company to the next always get the red-carpet treatment.

More rewards seem to await those who seek seemingly greener pastures. I don't begrudge them their due, but what about those who choose to stay the course? Where is their reward?

Why has our country become so disloyal? I think I'll ask my long-distance phone company.

MARK W. STAPLETON

Parksley, Dec. 7, 1994 by CNB