I’m still calling about the terrible delivery service from the Lombard Post Office. I live in Lombard. We still don’t get our mail every day; we go two or three days without getting mail. And, when we get mail, it’s between 8 and 10 o’clock at night. I keep calling the post office and I get a different answer every time I call. This is ridiculous. Is this ever going to end?

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Regarding what’s happening to our armed forces, where they want to cut them down to the smallest number to pre-World War II, I would like to recommend that we cut the salaries of our congressmen and our senators in half and let them go on food stamps, and get their special health care canceled so they have to pay more, like they want our defenders of our liberty to do. Also they should cut them down to 29 hours per week; less mischief they could do, and maybe they would learn what it is to go without like our government is doing to us.

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Ronald McDonald is lonesome because there’s a shortage of clowns? Well, maybe they could go to the Congress and hire a few of the congressmen, considering they only work 100 days a year and get paid a nice salary for this; and that includes mostly the Republicans. Thank you.

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OK, all you SPEAK OUT readers, and I know you’re very intelligent. I have a question for you. If our country is producing so much oil that they keep talking about, why in the world are we paying these high prices for gasoline? Something is ridiculous. This is going on for too long. We’re being ripped off. There’s got to be something wrong somewhere. So please, folks, give me an answer. Who is responsible for these high gasoline prices? The president should be accountable.

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This is Lombard calling. This is regarding a recent flier from Peter Breen. First of all, I’d like to correct a few things on his flier. Peter was elected acting village president by his board because he objected to the way it was supposed to be and always was, that the trustee on the board the longest would be the acting village president. He also did not specifically give money back to Lombard regarding the eliminating of the village stickers and that is a minute amount that really nobody complained about having to get vehicle stickers.

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Good morning. Longtime Lombardian calling in. Just wanted to know if anybody knows, or has seen, the village president. I’m not sure who he is in this village anymore. We don’t seem to be having any representation. No appearances. Nothing in the paper about him.

Sorry if you missed recent issues of the Lombardian: President Giagnorio was cited for offering to donate 10 percent of his pizza business sales on Wednesday, Feb. 26, as a fundraiser for the Deicke Home. Other mentions in the newspaper are that he was featured in the Feb. 26 edition for his State of the Village Address; he was pictured with Executive Coordinator Carol Bauer, who was honored for her service as a blood drive volunteer; and he was also interviewed by Bonnie MacKay regarding the mail issues going on in Lombard. In that article, the president related that the village has been in touch with both U.S. Reps. Peter Roskam and Tammy Duckworth. He also emphasized that the village was working to fix over 30 frozen water lines. The above items would indicate that he is aware of immediate issues going on in the Lilac Village.—JAC

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The global warming fanatics can’t have it both ways. If we were having a mild winter, you know they’d be pointing to the above-average temperatures and sparse snowfall and whining that global warming is in our midst. Of course, it’s been a cold and snowy winter, so the global warming crowd claims that this winter doesn’t count, or that, hey, it’s warm somewhere else. Keep this in mind: at the end of this year, someone’s going to claim that 2014 was one of the warmest years ever. Sure it was.

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The Obama administration is hiring 16,000 new IRS agents to enforce Obamacare. The administration is building 159 brand new bureaucracies to administrate the abomination of Obamacare. We have the vote March 18. We have a chance to change the politics in Illinois. Vote for we the people; vote Republican.

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Well, it’s election season again and these politicians are at it. With 15, 20 signs all on vacant property all down Roosevelt Road and North Avenue, and come election day, they’ll still be there. Come two months later, they’ll be laying there and nobody will pick them up. There ought to be some way to make them pay for a permit so we can afford to have somebody be hired to clean up their mess. Thank you.

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Lombard voting resident here. This is to the village board. Whatever happened to all the campaign promises of overturning the village’s policy not to respond to SPEAK OUT comments? If I remember correctly, campaign promises were to work to overturn that policy, and some trustees who weren’t up for election also agreed that that policy should be overturned. What’s being done about it? How come there’s no communication to the rest of the residents on this matter, or are campaign promises made just little more than pillow talk?

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The Republicans are at it again. In Arizona they came up with legislation to discriminate against gays in restaurants. This party wants to go back 100 years when discrimination was strong. Their attitude is if you don’t look or act like them, you need to go to the back of the bus. Remember in November and vote the caring Democratic side.

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If you want proof that liberals are intolerant control freaks, look no further than SPEAK OUT. How many media organizations are friendly, to put it mildly, to Democrats? ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post, etc. In addition to dominating mainstream media, liberals have firm control of Hollywood and academia. But what outlet gets the most attention in SPEAK OUT? Fox News. That one news channel drives liberals crazy because it isn’t under their control. So they constantly criticize, demean and denigrate Fox News and its viewers. If conservatives don’t like a channel, they tend to ignore it. If liberals don’t like a channel, they throw a tantrum.

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Lombard here. While I don’t always agree with Peter Breen, I do believe he is the best person to vote for next week. Ms. Pihos has been in Springfield for many years and has been a part of the status quo that has driven our state into massive debt. Ms. Pihos is claiming in her ads that she will fight for property tax freezes. Yet, she voted against a bill that would prohibit property tax increases where property values are below what is owed. At a time when our state is in desperate need of pension reform, she voted against the pension reform bill. It’s time that our state sees massive change and at least Peter Breen does what he says he’s going to do. Sorry, Ms. Pihos, there are people out here who pay attention and see that what you say while you are campaigning and what your votes are, are two completely different things.

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Hi, this is Lombard calling. Today is Wednesday, Feb. 19, a beautiful day. The sun was shining, it wasn’t snowing, it wasn’t below zero, the snow was going away and it was great. The only thing that wasn’t great is we didn’t get our mail. What excuse now does the Lombard Post Office have for not delivering mail today on a day like this? This post office is the worst post office I have ever lived in, in my life in this town.

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Lombard calling. I received my mail one time last week. Unacceptable. The weather has been clear for days. There is no reason the mail should not be delivered. The U.S. Postal Service increases rates and decreases service. That’s not the American way.

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I live on a street in Lombard where the public works crew totally buried a fire hydrant. A big, huge mound of snow covered the fire hydrant for weeks and weeks and weeks this winter. I’m hoping everyone in Lombard would consider writing their trustee, e-mailing their trustee or phoning their trustee if they’ve had any problems with snow removal this winter. We need to address the problem of how public works clean neighborhoods, residential streets, because it is a problem. Thank you.

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I just wanted to comment about how bad the Lombard Post Office is, having to bring carriers in from other offices to deliver on Sunday, which hasn’t been done in about 50 years. I assume they’re paying them overtime and losing money for the post office. Thank you.

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Hello, Lombard. This is a frustrated postal customer. Rumor has it that the Lombard Post Office has the Villa Park postmaster helping to straighten out whatever’s going on over there. It might be helpful if the Lombardian would go over there and do an interview to see what is actually happening. I have noticed on Sunday that there were a lot of trucks out on the road and a lot of people delivering mail, so maybe it’s true. Let’s see if the Lombardian can talk to the postmaster and see what’s happening. Thank you.

See article on Page 2 of the Lombardian.—blm

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Hi, Lombard calling. It’s bad enough they’re putting their signs out all over the vacant property up and down Roosevelt Road. Who’s going to clean this mess up? Every spring, after the election and every fall after the election, there are signs laying around for months afterward. Nobody comes to pick them up. I suggested awhile ago they have to put up a bond if they’re going to put up signs in town. The realtors buy permits if they put up big signs on Roosevelt Road, so I think they should, too, and then if they don’t pick the signs up, the village will have the money to send somebody around so we don’t have to be looking at this in July. Thank you.

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Hi, this is Lombard calling. I am appalled at the political mailings a Lombard trustee is sending out to knock his opponent in his run for state representative. Does he honestly not know all that Sandy Pihos has done for Lombard and for other communities? Rep. Pihos is a tireless worker for the people. I’m hoping people can see the truth before it is too late. Please vote.

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For the last few weeks I’ve been reading in SPEAK OUT about horrible mail delivery. As someone who’s worked outside for 22 years, walking in the snow, doing my work in the snow, walking on ice, trying to get through 3- and 4-foot snow drifts, residents who don’t shovel their sidewalks or driveways, unless you work outside and know what the conditions are, with 50 below zero wind chills, below zero highs, don’t complain because you’re obviously a stay-at-home person or you work in an office where you go from the parking lot to your office cubicle. It’s very, very difficult to work outside in those conditions safely, so don’t come down on the people who work outside 365 days a year unless you’ve been out there. Things happen. Safety is always first.

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Lombard calling. Wednesday, Feb. 19. To the caller who commented about Wayne, yes, he is wonderful. I had Wayne for years and now you’re lucky enough to have him. I had Bernadette for years, too. Neither one of them ever missed. Then I had another one. He apparently didn’t like our route. It was too long or he was offered something different. Now I have somebody else who may be struggling to do it. There are many days I haven’t had mail. I got my mail at 7 o’clock tonight. I understand when it’s below zero for them not to be out. I don’t like them out in the dark, by the way, I just think the post office is short of help. They should cut the route. Distribute them differently. Give the older, more experienced people the larger route or have all routes equal, or something like that.

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This is Lombard concerning our wonderful post office. It is Sunday, the 23rd at 3:15 and I just received some mail, which I didn’t get any mail yesterday and I have ads with coupons that expired Monday, Feb. 17. I have another ad with three days only, Feb. 15 for three days. I have a bill that was mailed Jan. 23 and it was mailed from Burr Ridge and I have a couple of other things that have stamps that they were mailed three weeks ago. There’s no excuse for this. I don’t know what’s going on. I will call the post office number we can supposedly complain to also. Thank you.

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I just read the article about the 2014 budget for Villa Park. I could not believe the village is looking to spend money to repair the parking lots of the two pools in town. Have they driven down the streets of Villa Park? I realize there is some grant money available for the parking lot repairs, but the village still has to contribute additional money. It’s only a parking lot. How about using available funds to fix the worst streets in DuPage County? 

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Hi. I just want to say thank you to the Sacred Heart choir during Ash Wednesday services. They were phenomenal. Everyone in the church was even talking about it and I just wanted them to know that, that a lot of people were really thankful for all they do. Thank you.

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Does the village ever plan on repaving Grace Street? It feels like an alley up and down Grace Street. Unbelievable.