and instead of paying equal rates for both Canadian and American, the American stamps cost five cents more. The class system of mail¬ ing letters also changed. In future all private letters must be classed as first class and sealed - no choice between first and second. The O'Leary Post Office is responsible for three routes: R.R . # 1 is the responsibility of Ellis and Annie Sweet who deliver mail to two hundred fifteen homes. #2, Hilton and Ethel MacNevin make deliveries to one hundred sixty-one homes; and, since Heber Bryan 's retirement, Carol Elliot has delivered to two hundred twenty- seven householders on Route #3. Post Offices provide not only mail service but records history through its sale of stamps. At the same time it generates over one million dollars a year revenue from its sale of stamps. Some of the more interesting stamps issued in the past were: Lucy Maud Montgomery Stamp (1975), Royal Canadian Legion Stamp , Commonwealth Jubilee Stamp (1973), Stamp (1873), and the Charlottetown Stamp (1969). Members of the Post Office staff over the years include: Ian Strang , Ursula Cornish , Pauline Getson (part-time), Linda Adams (casual), Norma Lewis (casual), Leila Lynch (part-time), and Pauline Peters (part-time). Early couriers were Winnifred Brooks and George Buchanan , Sr. ( R.R .#1), Herbert Dennis , Scott Buchanan ( R.R . #2), and Milton Smallman, Jr. ( R.R . #2) and Hugh MacPhee ( R.R . #3). The following is a list of Postmasters: Robert Frost , 1877 - 1903; Robert Ellis , Sr., 1903 - 1911; D.D. Campbell , 1911 - 1920; Charles Dennis , 1920 - 1927; Alvin Webb , 1927 - 1958; Lloyd Matthews , 1958 - 1980; and Ian Strang , 1980 to present. TELEPHONE The telephone was invented in 1867 by Alexander Graham Bell but it wasn't until 1900 that the first telephone became available. Since 1867 tremendous improvements have been made to the style, operation, and methods used in telephone technology. The first telephone that was in use in the homes here consisted of an oak box which held batteries to power the telephone. A crank to ring a phone number was on the right side of the box, the receiver on the left hung on a cradle on which a few feet of telephone wire was attached to the batteries. To make a phone call, the receiver was removed from the cradle and placed to the ear. Should someone be talking on the line they could be heard and you could listen in or hang up and try later. A mouthpiece into which one spoke was 24