It is silly to be letting the kids off one hour and fifteen minutes early.

Why not move the Easter holidays forward so they are off anyway? — Upset Parent.

I have lived in the Ballumbie Braes estate for over a year and the mail deliveries are best described as erratic.

We receive other people’s mail and are never sure when we are getting a delivery, if at all.

I spoke to a postman whilst returning some more wrongly- delivered mail and was informed this was caused by having no regular postie so the mail was being delivered on overtime.

Recently I had a card put through my door saying I had a packet they could not deliver as it was too big for my letter box.

I waited the requisite 24 hours and went to collect it at lunchtime.

I was told at the Dundee East office that they could not give me my packet as it was in Edinburgh.

I was not the only one there who was told this. I was informed that as they had used a part-time postman he did not return to the delivery office. Instead he leaves his undelivered mail at a post office, which then forwards it on to Edinburgh for redelivery to Dundee.

At a time when the Royal Mail is trying to make savings, what is the sense of paying out overtime instead of having a regular postie, and how can sending mail on a 130-mile round trip for a journey of around a mile be justified? — Waiting Game.

One of our resources is pavements and these are already being used — by people parking on them and cyclists. Technically, this breaks the law by conducting a wheeled vehicle on the footpath.

But we cannot expect children to face the perils on the roads, so perhaps the law needs to be amended to make the sharing of pavements legal.

Instead, Councillor Shimi is going to approach Holyrood for more stringent legislation to ban vehicles from the pavements.

Lochee United get a mention, with blind people and folk with prams unable to get along the pavements outside their ground at times.

It’s pretty harsh to pull the club into this problem, if there is one. There are not masses of people pouring in to watch the football every week, and this is an area of low population density, with broad pavements.

I know only one blind person and that person has a guide dog, while I don’t see many people with prams, other than unloading in shopping areas.

So, like building a big police station in Lochee, which took the police off the streets, maybe this is another one the council has got wrong. — Craigiebank.

Was this an oversight on your part? I assumed Mr Luke had his own photographer on hand at all times.

I look forward to the day when we no longer have to endure front page headlines, such as war and famine, and can just have a page dedicated to Mr Luke.

I’m sure it would be a best seller. — Iain Luke Fan Club.

As a sovereign nation state, Scotland would continue to co-operate with other democratic states, including England, and fulfil our international obligations. Any overseas action should be in line with international law.

We are fully committed to retaining the military assets, both fixed and moveable, which we have by right, and so take away the worries many young service personnel have at the moment that there might not be a long-term career in joining the Scottish regiments.

Scotland has always punched above her weight when it comes to young men and women joining the armed forces, and the traditions and family ties to such regiments as The Black Watch must be retained to help in this respect.

The decision in the 1990s to consign the Gordon Highlanders to the history books, saw a drop in recruitment figures.

In addition, Scotland has not had the benefit within the UK of a fair share of defence expenditure.

The amazing decision to favour Devonport to Rosyth cost millions of pounds and took much-needed jobs away to the south of England. — J. Barrie, Blackness Road, Dundee.