UPS Strike

* Re “Back to Business,” Aug. 21.

I wish to express my deepest sympathy to driver Kelly Barton and her family on the tough times they have had to endure. Did you realize that $2,300 weekly income only comes to $119,600 a year--almost poverty level isn’t it? Then again she has 160 stops to make a day and that almost breaks my back.

I don’t want to impress her, but I never made over $32,000 a year and spent 35 years delivering mail. I raised two boys through Catholic schools, had a home, two cars, took vacations and did the normal things all people do. Maybe she needs to reevaluate! One more little thing of interest: I carried 35 pounds of mail on my back on each street (14), each day, five days a week.

JIM AVERY

Burbank