I have lived in Corowa for the past 30-odd years and the introduction of the container deposit machine in the RSL car park we thought was going to be a blessing.

However, over the past year, the invasion from Victorians has become out of control.

Every morning the machine opens at 8am and there can be up to five cars with trailers all from as far away is Bendigo, Shepparton and Wangaratta, which seems to be the biggest culprit, lined up ready to unload a full trailer full of cans or stubbies on the machine.

These people clearly don't care there are signs up to say Victorians take your rubbish home with you and put them in the kerbside bin for recycling.

The mess they leave behind is phenomenal and I pity the poor cleaner who has to pick it up day in, day out.

As a local, I am appalled by what is happening here and, it seems, to combat the problem nobody is doing anything about it.

I have asked the cleaner does he tell Victorians to take their products home and he said when the signs first went up he started to but he was sick to death of being told where to go and people having a go at him.

Something needs to be done about this.

If you do the maths, the NSW government is actually paying people from Victoria 20 cents to bring their products here - the 10 cents they already saved when they purchased the containers and the 10 cents they get back when they bring it over the NSW border.

A NSW citizen only gets 10 cents back, so why should the Victorians get 20 cents?

I'm sick to death of it.

I would have a better clue as to my reaction to Rod Halsted's letter about Hume Bank in Saturday's Border Mail, if Rod had told us his age.

I will be 89 next birthday and am a long-time customer of Hume Bank.

If a Hume Bank teller quizzed me about a proposed withdrawal of $9500, we would be having a good laugh and I would be thanking her for her concern for my welfare, particularly when for months I have been plagued by a recorded telephone call purportedly from NBN, which keeps informing me that NBN intends to disconnect my internet within 24 hours unless I return the call.

The most recent calls told me to press 1 to talk to the technician - I did that finally and invited the male person who answered to send me a letter confirming what he had said.

I still await that letter.

Did I do the right thing? At least I am no longer getting that recorded call three or four times a day.

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