One of the joys of the American way is to walk down the block in your neighborhood and post a letter. That pleasure is now denied the residents of Fairfield Park, the community across from Roslyn High School, by the postal authorities. We always had two mail boxes in the community, now we have none. One dark and stormy night the postal troops came by and removed not one, but both mail boxes. According to a mysterious survey they cite, the boxes were not being used enough to merit existence.

The postmaster says Fairfield Park residents can leave mail with the postman. That doesn't help those who don't have mail boxes, but mail slots. The nearest mail box now is at the corner of Round Hill Road and Millburn Place, which is a walk of four-to-six blocks for those who live in the distant corners of Fairfield Park.

For most, it is no hardship to walk to that mail box. But it is a hurt to be deprived of the good, old American pastime of walking to a mail box in our own community and posting a letter.

The postmaster at 621-3250 and his bosses no doubt would welcome phone calls from Roslynites in and out of Fairfield Park to hear about the joys of not having a mail box in your community.

Stan Isaacs