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A peek into our office at 241 Fulford-Ganges Road these days proves the point, as every available surface is covered in piles of newspapers for our mail subscribers! Papers usually come from the press in Coquitlam on Tuesday night sorted in bundles for rural route carriers, clustered in postal code groupings. “People who have been coming in for a couple of weeks are now trained to just recite their postal code as soon as they walk in the door,” laughs publisher Nancy Johnson. Staff then locate the appropriate stack containing papers with that postal code and retrieve the person’s paper from the pile. Sometimes it’s easy to find a paper. Sometimes it’s not, especially in cases where the postal code just can’t be found on any of the sheets of paper! As well, the postal code groupings have not been 100% consistent from week to week, so knowing where a paper was found last week isn’t necessarily useful. “We really appreciate people taking the time to come into the office to…