While all of us receive unusual pieces of mail, the Rev. Jim Thompson, interim priest of South Peace Parish in Dawson Creek, B.C., Canada, probably can top most of them. He received an advertisement from St. Andrew's Bookstore in Vancouver, B.C. for "St. Andrew's No Name Altar Bread." If altar bread can be generic, Fr. Thompson muses, what will follow? "No Name Altar Wine, dated Thursday?" The mind can conjure up all sorts of possibilities.

"Perhaps we need generic priests for missions that cannot meet the diocesan minimum for stipend," he writes.

Speaking of the mail, here's another good one. Recently returned to TLC was a letter we had mailed to someone in Indiana. That person moved, and the forwarding time had expired, so the letter was returned to us. It was sent back three years and one month after we mailed it.

Headline spotted in Church Times: "Moses Goes to St. Paul's."

Actually the headline refers to the Very Rev. John Moses, provost of Chelmsford Cathedral, who is to become the next dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London.

Did anyone notice the resolution adopted by Executive Council at its recent meeting urging Episcopalians to go to Cuba [TLC, July 7]? Try booking a flight to Cuba sometime.

The Clarion, newspaper of the Diocese of Fond du Lac, reports this amusing item from another newspaper, Together in Faith: Bishop Russell Jacobus was listed as the "homeliest" for an ecumenical service. Bishop Jacobus was reported to have said that if he had known it was a beauty pageant, he might have worn a swim suit.

Thanks to all who sent answers to the questions I posed in this space [TLC, July 7]. The questions were somewhat rhetorical, but some of the answers I received were better than the questions.

The license plate watch: WE3PRA, 1 MASTR, STJOHNS and GOSPL. The Rev. John T. West, of Bolivar, Mo., reports his license plate is evangelistic, TEL-ONE, and is wife's is VENITE. Someone in Virginia spotted TR JESUS, but alas, I lost the name. Finally, Julie Erkenswick of our staff saw GODJR.

Note to Mrs. P., somewhere in North Carolina (I couldn't read the postmark): Your remark that it is an interesting time to be an Episcopalian may turn out to be one of the great understatements of 1996.

David Kalvelage, editor