Peeve: The machine-gun letter to the editor

I wish the local newspapers would insist that the letters-to-the-editor they receive be original and unique to that paper. It gets really old reading the same exact letter four times in the same week. Case in point this week. Former council member Jim Cook wrote all the papers to congratulate the council for holding down costs at annual budget time. Certainly a worthy letter to write, but did he have to send the same letter to all four papers? Shoot, the local Messenger even headlined his letter on the front page this week. C'mon papers - insist on some originality, rather than printing the same letter everyone else has already printed.