Jayne,
There is a further serious point to be made here.
My own take on it is this: knowing that the postbag is large, it seems greedy to send Lucy loads of poems. Send one or two, as yourself, and opt for quality over quantity.
The problem is that the author's estimation of his "best" pieces is not necessarily going to coincide with Lucy's. Reverting once again to my own experience, it has happened that I have won with what I thought to be only my third-best entry - if I'd limited myself to what I considered to be the two best, I'd have ended up with nothing.
And another point is this: if it so happens that one week you have written six entries that are more amusing than all the entries submitted by others (OK, it's unlikely, but let's assume it for the sake of argument), then it's in everybody's interest - the general readership's as well as the author's - for them to be the ones that appear in print.
I don't think it's "greedy" for a writer of humourous verse or prose to want to amuse as many people as possible with as many pieces as possible, even if you can't amuse all of the people all of the time.
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