Door to door mail delivery - do we really want to keep it around? At what cost?
- Thread starter Ceiling Cat
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My neighbourhood is serviced by the large post boxes on every few street corners. They seem to service 30 or so houses and are within a 2 minute walk. They also have large locked box areas for delivering small and mid-sized packages when you aren't home.
I can honestly say I don't miss door delivery in the slightest.
I can honestly say I don't miss door delivery in the slightest.
Canada Post turned a profit last year.
We have no need to cut home delivery while the government is making money off of it.
We have no need to cut home delivery while the government is making money off of it.
We just switched from home delivery to neighbourhood superbox delivery this week. When I didn't get any mail Monday or Tuesday I figured it out.
Who cares, it's mostly ads, flyers and crap anyway. I'll probably get into the habit of checking it once or twice a week.
Who cares, it's mostly ads, flyers and crap anyway. I'll probably get into the habit of checking it once or twice a week.
EXACTLY. IF one week we had Tues / Thurs, the next MON Wed Fri - what would be wrong with that? Half the deliveries should make a big difference in costs and the extra day wait wouldn't make any difference.Sure we do. Delivery times should be only once or twice per week.
You will appreciate this service as you get older
Let's go back to basics. Everyone wants the government to be efficient, right? Well home delivery is the MOST INEFFICIENT form of delivery possible. From that perspective, why wouldn't we want to increase efficiency and reduce costs by communal delivery. Yes, they used to always do home delivery. But we also used to use typewriters and wagons and all sorts of things that are no longer efficient.
Time to get in the now!
Time to get in the now!
I've had community mailbox service for 20 years and don't really miss door to door. Sure, when I'm an old guy, I might appreciate it being brought to me, but then, if I'm an old guy who can't walk a few hundred feet to the mailbox, I probably won't be living in a house anymore either. And what mail will I be getting then anyway? As for Canada Post being profitable, first off they have subsidiary companies that are making profits that make up a chunk of that Canada Post profit number, it's not all from postal operations. And just because they are profitable doesn't mean they shouldn't try to me MORE profitable. We are happy to have the LCBO make money for Ontario, but somehow Canada Post shouldn't make money for Canada?
When I was a kid in Windsor, there was mail delivery twice a day. Later moved to a small town and mail was picked up at the post office. Most of my mail now is flyers, magazines and bills. I like the magazines but the bills could come over the Internet and who cares about flyers.
I can tolerate the super mailbox as long as it isn't on my lawn. But if that goes for my neighbours, too, then there isn't any place to put it for 2km, and then it'll be blighting a park or a schoolyard. And I absolutely refuse to go there and open the damn thing to deal with junkmail and admail.
I'll happily pay whatever FedEx or Canada Post want to charge to get real mail delivered, and the junk thrown directly in thrash.
I'll happily pay whatever FedEx or Canada Post want to charge to get real mail delivered, and the junk thrown directly in thrash.
I agree. I'm not going to check the box daily anyway. They put my mom - a senior citizen with a cane - on the box system. Winters - she must wait for someone to pick it up for her as it is a trecherous hike from her home in an area without sidewalks.
We also used to have healthcare and a minimum wage. Should we get rid of those anachronisms as well? The trend to see government as a business, and efficiency not as a tool but as an end goal, is utterly fucked in the head.
