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Yahoo
26-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
AGAR: Once a week is just fine for Canada Post mail delivery
The post office can no longer afford to deliver mail to your door every day. Get over it. Perhaps the solution is not community mailboxes. I'm from a community on the Prairies that's never had home delivery of the mail. That's why I find it surprising to read of people who think the sky will fall and it will rain frogs if they don't get their mail delivered to their sofa every day. Global News ran a story that begins, 'Judy Frank says no longer getting mail at her door would make life harder. 'The 78-year-old Regina woman is unable to walk more than a few steps and says she would need someone to pick up her mail if Canada Post stops door-to-door service. ''It's very dangerous,' Frank said in a recent interview, pointing to the uneven and cracked sidewalk outside her home.' I don't know how older or housebound people got their mail in Gilbert Plains, Manitoba, back in the day. My father ran the post office and I don't remember him taking the mail to anyone's house. Perhaps a friend or relative handled it. Most of the people in my town lived farther from the post office than people live from their community mailbox — and somehow, we all survived. Canada Post estimates it would save about $350 million per year by converting to community boxes and says it can do that while still delivering to those with disabilities. Okay, then Frank has nothing to worry about if her mail is still being delivered to her home. Global also interviewed Melissa Graham, executive director of the Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities in Winnipeg, who said replacing door-to-door mail with community boxes has created barriers. '(Boxes) used to ice up. They used to be in areas that were difficult to get to, if you had a mobility disability,' Graham said. 'They often didn't have braille, so you could not find your mailbox easily.' I'm sure some people never leave the house for family visits, groceries, doctor appointments, etc., such that they can't go half a block for the mail a few days a week. Regardless, I still think the post office's solution of community mailboxes is the wrong way to go. You cannot convince me, with so much of what we do online, that we need daily delivery of the mail to residences. Businesses are a different matter. Perhaps you get a flood of mail every day that is of an essential nature, but I go days with no mail. I am good with that. Instead of community mailboxes, how about once-a-week delivery of the mail? That would still get the mail to your door, but it would cut the need for postal employees by a huge amount. The post office is hemorrhaging money and there is nothing to suggest the situation will get better. Postal workers should make a good living. But we don't need as many of them as we have now. A caller to my show said he delivers mail and once a week would result in too high a load of flyers for delivery to doorsteps. If it is that high, why isn't it paying the bills? Once a week, the day before garbage day. Get the connection?
Toronto Sun
26-05-2025
- General
- Toronto Sun
AGAR: Once a week is just fine for Canada Post mail delivery
Canada Post trucks. Photo by CHRISTINE MUSCHI / CANADIAN PRESS The post office can no longer afford to deliver mail to your door every day. Get over it. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. 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Create Account Perhaps the solution is not community mailboxes. I'm from a community on the Prairies that's never had home delivery of the mail. That's why I find it surprising to read of people who think the sky will fall and it will rain frogs if they don't get their mail delivered to their sofa every day. Global News ran a story that begins, 'Judy Frank says no longer getting mail at her door would make life harder. 'The 78-year-old Regina woman is unable to walk more than a few steps and says she would need someone to pick up her mail if Canada Post stops door-to-door service. ''It's very dangerous,' Frank said in a recent interview, pointing to the uneven and cracked sidewalk outside her home.' I don't know how older or housebound people got their mail in Gilbert Plains, Manitoba, back in the day. My father ran the post office and I don't remember him taking the mail to anyone's house. Perhaps a friend or relative handled it. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Most of the people in my town lived farther from the post office than people live from their community mailbox — and somehow, we all survived. Canada Post estimates it would save about $350 million per year by converting to community boxes and says it can do that while still delivering to those with disabilities. Okay, then Frank has nothing to worry about if her mail is still being delivered to her home. Global also interviewed Melissa Graham, executive director of the Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities in Winnipeg, who said replacing door-to-door mail with community boxes has created barriers. '(Boxes) used to ice up. They used to be in areas that were difficult to get to, if you had a mobility disability,' Graham said. 'They often didn't have braille, so you could not find your mailbox easily.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. I'm sure some people never leave the house for family visits, groceries, doctor appointments, etc., such that they can't go half a block for the mail a few days a week. Regardless, I still think the post office's solution of community mailboxes is the wrong way to go. You cannot convince me, with so much of what we do online, that we need daily delivery of the mail to residences. Businesses are a different matter. Perhaps you get a flood of mail every day that is of an essential nature, but I go days with no mail. I am good with that. Instead of community mailboxes, how about once-a-week delivery of the mail? That would still get the mail to your door, but it would cut the need for postal employees by a huge amount. The post office is hemorrhaging money and there is nothing to suggest the situation will get better. Postal workers should make a good living. But we don't need as many of them as we have now. A caller to my show said he delivers mail and once a week would result in too high a load of flyers for delivery to doorsteps. If it is that high, why isn't it paying the bills? Once a week, the day before garbage day. Get the connection? Relationships Columnists Football Ontario Celebrity
Global News
24-05-2025
- Business
- Global News
End Canada Post door-to-door delivery? Many residents have concerns
Judy Frank says no longer getting mail at her door would make life harder. The 78-year-old Regina woman is unable to walk more than a few steps and says she would need someone to pick up her mail if Canada Post stops door-to-door service. 'It's very dangerous,' Frank said in a recent interview, pointing to the uneven and cracked sidewalk outside her home. Her daughter, Kyara Moon, said Frank once broke a wrist after falling down. Moon lives with her mother and also has some mobility issues. She said door-to-door delivery helps people maintain their independence. 'We're trying to keep seniors in their houses,' Moon said. 'I guess we're going to have to help people who aren't able to get their mail, if this is the way it goes.' Story continues below advertisement View image in full screen Kyara Moon, 59, and her mother Judy Frank, 78, stand outside their home next to their mailbox in Regina on Friday, May 23, 2025. Moon says they're concerned about a report's recommendation for Canada Post to end of door-to-door mail delivery for residential addresses. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeremy Simes. JS Concerns over Canada Post ending door-to-door mail delivery come after a recent Industrial Inquiry Commission report recommended phasing out the service and replacing it with community mailboxes. The report says declining mail volume has made door delivery financially unsustainable. About 25 per cent of Canadian addresses, or roughly four million homes in older neighbourhoods, continue to receive mail at their doors. Canada Post estimates it would save about $350 million per year by converting all addresses to community boxes, while providing select door delivery to those with disabilities. Regina resident Joan Lang supports door delivery. Without it, she said some postal workers would likely lose their jobs. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Sign up for breaking National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy But she said she could get used to going to a mailbox. Ways of life have changed before. Story continues below advertisement 'We used to get milk delivered to our home, but now we're used to going to the store,' she said. Calgary resident Frankie Thornhill said Canada Post could do door delivery once a week, not every day. Many seniors require the service, she said. 'I ripped my hamstring off my pelvis three years ago, just from (slipping on) some ice that looked like a puddle,' said the 72-year-old. 'You get these older people and they got to walk two blocks to the box. That is not good.' 0:50 Canada Post should stop daily delivery for individuals, commission finds Canada Post has been in a dispute with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers over a new collective bargaining deal. The Crown corporation received strike notice Monday from the union and, late Thursday, just before a strike deadline, the union called for a stop to overtime work. Story continues below advertisement The union has said it disagrees with most of the report's recommendations and takes issue with 'some of the information on which it was based.' Canada Post began phasing out door-to-door delivery in 2014, which resulted in about 830,000 households being converted to community boxes. The move was unpopular in many neighbourhoods, where residents complained about losing accessibility and convenience. Some also took issue with damage and litter around the boxes. The federal Liberal government under former prime minister Justin Trudeau imposed a moratorium in 2015, preventing Canada Post from doing additional conversions. Melissa Graham, executive director of the Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities in Winnipeg, said replacing door-to-door mail with community boxes created barriers. '(Boxes) used to ice up. They used to be in areas that were difficult to get to, if you had a mobility disability,' Graham said. 'They often didn't have braille, so you could not find your mailbox easily.' 4:34 CFIB on small businesses bracing for another Canada Post strike The report says Canada Post has a program to accommodate those with accessibility needs and that the program should be reviewed and enhanced if required. Story continues below advertisement It also recommends lifting a 1994 moratorium that prevents Canada Post from closing rural post offices. The report doesn't provide a list of post offices that should close, but it points out some in suburban communities that were classified as rural no longer are. For example, post offices in the Ontario municipalities of Milton and Richmond Hill no longer fit the rural criteria, even though they were classified as such in 1994. The post office in the Ottawa suburb of Stittsville was also classified as rural before it was amalgamated by the capital city. Glen Gower, a city councillor for Stittsville, said the community was rural 25 years ago but has changed. It now has a second Canada Post outlet, he added. Gower said replacing the original post office with affordable housing makes sense for what the community needs, if one post office could handle all its mail. 'It is sitting on a huge piece of Crown land. But I do want to make sure postal services are maintained,' he said. 'I think (the original post office) is of less significance than it would have been 25 years ago.' The report says ending the moratoriums on rural post offices and community boxes could cause massive public opposition. Story continues below advertisement 'Even with public consultation, it is more likely than not that local communities will strenuously object, as will the union,' it says.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
'Not good': Concerns revived over recommendation to end door-to-door mail delivery
Judy Frank says no longer getting mail at her door would make life harder. The 78-year-old Regina woman is unable to walk more than a few steps and says she would need someone to pick up her mail if Canada Post stops door-to-door service. "It's very dangerous," Frank said in a recent interview, pointing to the uneven and cracked sidewalk outside her home. Her daughter, Kyara Moon, said Frank once broke a wrist after falling down. Moon lives with her mother and also has some mobility issues. She said door-to-door delivery helps people maintain their independence. "We're trying to keep seniors in their houses," Moon said. "I guess we're going to have to help people who aren't able to get their mail, if this is the way it goes." Concerns over Canada Post ending door-to-door mail delivery come after a recent Industrial Inquiry Commission report recommended phasing out the service and replacing it with community mailboxes. The report says declining mail volume has made door delivery financially unsustainable. About 25 per cent of Canadian addresses, or roughly four million homes in older neighbourhoods, continue to receive mail at their doors. Canada Post estimates it would save about $350 million per year by converting all addresses to community boxes, while providing select door delivery to those with disabilities. Regina resident Joan Lang supports door delivery. Without it, she said some postal workers would likely lose their jobs. But she said she could get used to going to a mailbox. Ways of life have changed before. "We used to get milk delivered to our home, but now we're used to going to the store," she said. Calgary resident Frankie Thornhill said Canada Post could do door delivery once a week, not every day. Many seniors require the service, she said. "I ripped my hamstring off my pelvis three years ago, just from (slipping on) some ice that looked like a puddle," said the 72-year-old. "You get these older people and they got to walk two blocks to the box. That is not good." Canada Post has been in a dispute with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers over a new collective bargaining deal. The Crown corporation received strike notice Monday from the union and, late Thursday, just before a strike deadline, the union called for a stop to overtime work. The union has said it disagrees with most of the report's recommendations and takes issue with "some of the information on which it was based." Canada Post began phasing out door-to-door delivery in 2014, which resulted in about 830,000 households being converted to community boxes. The move was unpopular in many neighbourhoods, where residents complained about losing accessibility and convenience. Some also took issue with damage and litter around the boxes. The federal Liberal government under former prime minister Justin Trudeau imposed a moratorium in 2015, preventing Canada Post from doing additional conversions. Melissa Graham, executive director of the Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities in Winnipeg, said replacing door-to-door mail with community boxes created barriers. "(Boxes) used to ice up. They used to be in areas that were difficult to get to, if you had a mobility disability," Graham said. "They often didn't have braille, so you could not find your mailbox easily." The report says Canada Post has a program to accommodate those with accessibility needs and that the program should be reviewed and enhanced if required. It also recommends lifting a 1994 moratorium that prevents Canada Post from closing rural post offices. The report doesn't provide a list of post offices that should close, but it points out some in suburban communities that were classified as rural no longer are. For example, post offices in the Ontario municipalities of Milton and Richmond Hill no longer fit the rural criteria, even though they were classified as such in 1994. The post office in the Ottawa suburb of Stittsville was also classified as rural before it was amalgamated by the capital city. Glen Gower, a city councillor for Stittsville, said the community was rural 25 years ago but has changed. It now has a second Canada Post outlet, he added. Gower said replacing the original post office with affordable housing makes sense for what the community needs, if one post office could handle all its mail. "It is sitting on a huge piece of Crown land. But I do want to make sure postal services are maintained," he said. "I think (the original post office) is of less significance than it would have been 25 years ago." The report says ending the moratoriums on rural post offices and community boxes could cause massive public opposition. "Even with public consultation, it is more likely than not that local communities will strenuously object, as will the union," it says. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 24, 2025. 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