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As announced today by Dartmouth MP Robert Chisholm, the NDP are promising to bring back door-to-door home mail delivery if elected this fall.
“I’m proud today to tell my constituents that an NDP government would reverse this terrible decision and restore home mail delivery to those from whom it’s been taken,” Chisholm declared to the House of Commons.
Home delivery in Canada is expected to end by 2018, as Canada Post continues switching addresses over to community mailboxes in an effort to reduce costs. Once complete, Canada will become the only G8 country in the world without door-to-door mail service.
Over 10,000 addresses in HRM have already converted to community mailboxes. Another 35,000 are set to switch over throughout the next few years.
Chisholm said installation is soon to begin on community mailboxes in his Dartmouth riding, “in spite of serious objections from residents.”
Aside from residential customers, about 200 small businesses, 30 churches, public schools and community centres are set to switch over to the community mailboxes. A full list of the businesses affected is embedded below.
The NDP’s new plan would, presumably, involve reversing Canada Post’s corporate direction and removing the community mailboxes already installed around Canada.
It’s no idle threat, as a new poll today puts the NDP neck-and-neck with the Conservatives and Liberals for Canada’s next government. The preliminary results from polling firm EKOS (using half the sample size as their other recent polls) suggest the NDP win in Alberta has given a boost to their federal cousins.
The federal election, in which Robert Chisholm will battle to retain his seat against Halifax councillor Darren Fisher (for the Liberals) and urban planner Brynn Nheiley (for the Green Party) will take place this fall.
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This article appears in May 14-20, 2015.
I don’t get the complaints. People just lazy? There have been community mailboxes around for a long time. Perhaps some elderly may have an issue, handle those on a case by case basis? Get an assisstant to get their mail? Who likes reading waste-of-paper flyers this much?
pass love the community mailboxes instead of people just leaving packages on our step they are locked securely in the mailbox
If some of those dislikes could inform me as to why this is a such a big issue I’m happy to listen.
Imagine mail and parcel boxes on your front door step… dare to dream big Canada! With the money the post office has made over the last 2 decades there should be a Canada Post Hospital for Sick Children in one or more of Canada’s largest cities.. dare to dream big Canada!
not only is removing door-to-door equivalent to getting rid of thousands of good paying jobs that support entire families, but removing it means that the most vulnerable in our society, like folks with disabilities and the elderly, will have one more thing to worry about. not to mention the fact that those community boxes are not secure, and that mail theft has increased in communities that have them, because you can just steel the entire neighbourhood’s mail at the same time.
Now more than ever is the time to remind people that this conservative government does not care about services nor do they care about decent living wage jobs. Nor do they care about the elderly, differently abled. Please remember this when we go to the polls this fall. Time to rid this country of the Harper cons
Not to stick up for Canada Post or anything but some can still have their home deliveries continued. If Canada Post is provided with a doctor’s note they will continue your home delivery. I don’t know how difficult it is to receive a doctors note but Canada Post is not preying on the most vulnerable of society.
Now that CMB’s are rolling in why does everyone have the compulsive nerve to check their mail at all hours?
Socialist morons. So your gonna make two thirds of the population pay for one third of the population to get home delivery. Why? So some underachieving postal worker can have a life style they aren’t entitled too?