With a Canada Post strike on the horizon, Canadian Mennonites are in a panic trying to figure just how on earth they’re going to communicate with their friends and relatives in distant locales.

“I’ve heard some Mennonites have fallen away from the church and use this thing called the emails and the Internets,” said Mrs. Agatha Vogt of Leamington. “Some are even on Facebook and read schputting websites, yet. that doesn’t seem right to me ”

Letter-writing may be a dying art in the rest of society, but Mrs. Vogt and others have dedicated themselves to preserving this quaint, mildly inefficient communication method.

“I sure hope they don’t strike. I’ve got dozens of unused stamps,” said Vogt. “I’ve even got a stack of pre-paid postcards I still need to send.”

With the very real possibilit

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