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SPACEBALLS 3:
THE QUEST
FOR ANOTHER
DISTRACTION
With America being devastated
by nationwide fl ooding, wildfi res destroying
California and record-setting
heat waves caused by the “hoax” of
global warming, people are criticizing
Trump for saying he wants to start a
new branch of our military — the
Space Force.
They are complaining that it would
just be another bloated bureaucracy
wasting billions!
The security of our planet is paramount!
Trump is not an idiot. He’s
going to have the Space Force build
a wall around the Earth! And he will
make the Martians pay for it.
“To stupidity and beyond!”
Robert LaRosa,
Whitestone
THE SPACE FORCE
IS STRONG WITH
THIS ONE
The Trump Administration wants a
Space Force, with Vice President Pence
warning that Russia and China have
already militarized the fi nal frontier.
We need to protect the homeland
from attacks from outer space. Russia
and China are developing technology
that could attack our satellites. A Space
Command is long overdue.
Let me also mention we could face
attacks from aliens unknown. Remember
today’s science fi ction could
be tomorrow’s reality.
Also, our population is increasing; we
now have a population from 6-7 billion,and
by the year 2050 we could have a population
of 18 billion. Therefore, we need to
explore others worlds like Mars for possible
colonization. As such we would need
a Space Force to protect such population.
Frederick R. Bedell Jr.,
Glen Oaks Village
THE POSTAL
WORKER ONLY
RINGS ONCE
You suggest people should be able to
leave outgoing mail in their mailboxes
for the carrier to pick up the next day
when he delivers (Aug. 9 editorial).
This is ridiculous for several
reasons:
A private house: The resident may
not remove their mail every day. So
how would the carrier know what to
take? Should he go through each piece
of mail and make an educated guess
thus delaying him on his route?
An apartment building: A carrier
is expected to go through hundreds
of mailboxes to determine as I stated
above what goes and what stays.
One large building will take him the
amount of time to go through it should
take for his entire route.
The only way to ensure that mail is
not stolen is to post an armed guard on
each box as they do now at each store
and street in the city. Nonsense, right?
Well...
Steve Abraham, Rego Park
Editor’s note: In rural communities,
mailboxes are fi tted with fl ags to note if
the letter carrier has dropped off a package.
We’ve observed some single-family
homes in Queens with such mailboxes
outside. Furthermore, as to apartment
buildings, a number of them have communal
mailboxes where tenants can drop off
their outgoing mail for the postal carrier
to pick up when visiting each day. Neither
of these systems is perfect, but we merely
proposed that something similar could
be solutions to Queens’ mail theft woes.
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