{"id":172,"date":"2015-03-11T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/11\/canada-post-not-cooperating\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:40:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:40:34","slug":"canada-post-not-cooperating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2015\/03\/11\/canada-post-not-cooperating\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Post ‘not cooperating’"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Robert Frank<\/b>
\nwww.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Laval\u2019s support for communal mailboxes is eroding as the city continues to sour on how Canada Post has handled the monopoly mail carrier\u2019s cost-cutting decision<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe have decided to get on the bandwagon<\/a> together with Montreal and the [regional] Conseil des municipalit\u00e9s m\u00e9tropolitain<\/i> (CMM),\u201d David de Cotis told The <\/i>Suburban.<\/i>
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\nThe city initially took an upbeat approach to the decision to cease home delivery of lettermail. <\/p>\n

\u201cBefore, our position was to work with Canada Post and see where mailboxes should be installed,\u201d de Cotis said in an interview, March 6. \u201cWhether to move them 20 ft north or south. We\u2019re not getting cooperation from Canada Post. For that reason, we decided to join and support our colleagues in Montreal and at CMM as well as in the Union des municipalit\u00e9s du Qu\u00e9bec<\/i> as one unified front against installation of group mailboxes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s affecting our seniors,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen it\u2019s a new development, you know from the outset that your mail will not be delivered to your door, but we have senior citizens living in Laval in older neighbourhoods where mail has [always] been delivered to at their homes. Now for them to walk a block or two in bad winter conditions is not something that we [would] wish on our elderly.\u201d<\/p>\n

De Cotis explained that Laval believes that it is being stonewalled by Canada Post. He said that the city no longer has a choice other than to oppose the measure. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to work together to limit the visual pollution of these mailboxes,\u201d he said. \u201cHow it would affect the handicapped. Visiting a group mailbox is something which is difficult for them.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThey really have a veto on that,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s why we said at first that we had no choice and why we decided to work with them in cooperation.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cWe took that approach with Canada Post but it was not reciprocated,\u201d de Cotis concluded. \u201cThere was no real collaboration. Canada Post needs to look beyond an administrative decision to see that there are human beings [who are affected by] it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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