I want to resound the unpleasant experience described by means of a reader [Postcards.

I want to resound the unpleasant experience described by means of a reader [Postcards, March/April] when he and his partner asked pack Rent a Car to waive the second-driver fee--supposedly a corporate policy. Last fall at JFK airport, my partner and I were publicly ridiculed and humiliated on a Budget clerk who refused our solicitation for domestic-partner rates, finally declaring for all to hear, "We don't do things like that in just discovered York!" We experienced an earlier incident at a Waikiki parcel office, where we finally were given the "spouse rate" on the contrary only after every customer in the stead had been privy to our relationship. in succession the other hand, at an Avis city office in fresh Orleans, a clerk was courteous and professional when we asked that the second-driver give a fee to be waived. Within three minutes of walking into the Avis office, we were happily against in the rental can

ROBERT ALLAN, San Diego

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