Trends
WHY DO business people and/or workmen assume that everybody is a follower of whatever is a trend, for example to walk around with a mobile attached to their bum?
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There are individualists who prefer to have only a landline phone.
To ring mobiles from such a phone can cost a fortune, depending on plan and provider.
We also pay for working time while the tradesperson is hanging on their mobile.
Therefore I suggest that all landline holders boycott businesses and professional workmen who provide (and advertise) only their mobile numbers.
There are businesses intelligent enough to have both a landline and a mobile number.
Helena Lettau, Grindelwald.
Telstra
I RANG Telstra to finally cancel my home line. I was offered an even cheaper plan than the one I had previously been offered - $15.95 instead of $16.95, both of which are considerably better deals than the $25.05 I would have been paying as from the beginning of October.
I would encourage all those who would like to save money on their home phones to ring up Telstra and ask to have their lines disconnected.
Val Clarke, Kings Meadows.
Pension Cuts
I HEARD on the news that the federal government is going to attack aged pensions again. So much for Senior’s Week. I have absolutely no idea if I am in the firing line, along with millions of others. Evidently, we will have to wait until Christmas to find out. Great Christmas present.
From January this year my Centrelink pension was viciously slashed by $27 a fortnight because I had paid a substantial percentage of my salary into the Retirement Benefits Fund while working and consequently received a small pension from RBF. Any government that has to rely on cutting the aged pension to balance its budget is frankly pathetic. We paid our taxes all our working lives and deserve better than this.