Letters to the editor – Baby shouldn't need GoFundMe after being shot

I read the May 9 story, "Gunfire into Columbus homes, businesses on the rise, with lives threatened, lost," with concern.

Then I got to this phrase and I was appalled: "But Aurisa's leg began to abscess as a result of her injury, and the little girl had to have surgery April 8 to remove the bullet. Wimberly said her health insurance would not cover the cost of the $18,182 surgery, so the family began a GoFundMe fundraiser to pay for Aurisa's recovery."

How in the world could it not be medically necessary to remove an abscessed bullet from a 1-year old's leg?

This mom should not have had to start a GoFundMe campaign for that. Our healthcare system is broken.

Cassandra Freeland, Columbus

Replacing meters with kiosks a cash grab

Soon to be gone will be one of my fond pleasures in life: finding a parking meter with time remaining on it already paid for by someone else.

I bet a major motive for the city in replacing parking meters with those kiosks was increasing parking fee revenues.

This is no different than a lawyer billing more than one client for the same time and mileage when traveling to the courthouse to attend to multiple cases, a practice deemed akin to stealing and thereby unethical per attorney disciplinary rules.

Jerome R. Schindler, Columbus

Mail carriers skipped the route and work

Regarding the May 9 letter "Postal Service moving in the right direction":

On May 2, I mailed eight Mother's Day cards from the 43228 post office located off Georgesville Road.

As of May 7, not one of them had been received.

Four of the cards had addresses in Ohio – Marysville; Thornville, and two in Glenford; two cards were addressed to North Carolina; one was to Idaho; one to Canada.

On May 9, I inquired about the non-delivery – at the same post office – I was told that the employees probably didn't come to work!

Joanne Davis, Columbus