7 DECEMBER 1985, Page 29

Bag of crisps

Sir: Mr Woodruff (Letters, 26 October) might appreciate your rainproof wrapping more if he lived out here, where postmen deliver mail only as far as an open chute in the front garden. And he should try open- ing it like a bag of crisps — by tugging close to the top in the middle of the front and back sides.

My only complaint is that the name of the magazine is too prominent. Several copies have been pinched from my chute recently. The police brusquely ask what else can I expect from ordering anything so conspicuously dirty as the Spectator.

R. L. Hughes

19 Stainton Place, Leeming, Western Australia