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    Befürworter sagt, dass das Ende der Postzustellung von Tür zu Tür für Senioren „isolierend“ sein wird

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    1. gotricolore on

      For those who know more about this than me:

      Can they not save like 80-90% of the cost of home delivery by reducing the frequency to monthly (for example)?
      Is that not a reasonable compromise?

    2. JohnP1P on

      Stephen Harper and the Tories begun the shut down of door to door delivery in 2014-2016 (that’s when they stopped delivering mail to the door in my case), the shut down was paused the Liberals in 2016, and resumed this year (austerity measures).

    3. Zomunieo on

      Wealthiest demographic ever sad to lose homeowner privileges, while home ownership is nearly out of reach for anyone born after 1990.

    4. mwyvr on

      The mail service is not and should not be in the business of providing companionship services. Letter carriers are not trained for that nor are they screened for providing services to vulnerable populations… because they deliver mail.

      With all the changes made to letter carrier routes over the years, there is no time for a carrier to engage in what might add up to many hours a month in small talk with seniors or anyone.

    5. One_Handed_Typing on

      When I read that ending door to door delivery will be isolating for a small number of seniors, I think that those seniors are in inappropriate housing for their current reality. I do not think that Canada post should continue an impractical service because of that.

    6. StickmansamV on

      Community mail boxes is already the reality for seniors living in the same types of neighbours and housing but in housing that is only ~40 years old or younger as those all already had community mailboxes when the subdivisions were developed. 

    7. WillSRobs on

      I feel like that isn’t the argument for mail they think it is. It is a sad reality of how we treat seniors though

    8. grathontolarsdatarod on

      The bits in here hard and fast framing mail service as a high-class privilege are hyper extending.

      Amazon delivers to your door.

      Because it is loosing money to do so.

      We’ve learned the business pattern with uber.

    9. hardk7 on

      It is not Canada Post’s mandate to provide social contact for isolated seniors. Furthermore a huge portion of the country already does not receive door to door delivery. It is not a tragedy that door to door mail delivery ends in a time of vastly reduced letter mail delivery, and electronic mail options for nearly every service. Most of the remaining physical mail being delivered is advertising material that recipients never asked for in the first place. The service must change to reflect the times.

    10. efdac3 on

      *living in single family homes in cities.  

      What about seniors who live in an apartment or condo? What about those living more rural communities that haven’t had door to door for years?

      This argument ignores how door to door is limited to higher value property owners. While there are certainly vulnerable people who own houses in big cities,  mail delivery should not be how we support them as it’s inherently inequitable.

    11. MTL_Dude666 on

      That’s a very weak argument.
      I come from a rural area in Quebec where door-to-door mail delivery stopped more than 20 years ago, and what do people do? They go to their community mailboxes and use that as a social activity.

      If senior people already live alone, it’s not the lack of mail delivery that is isolating more than they already are. The isolation problem is deeper than that.

    12. Canadian987 on

      I recall that Stephen Harper said that community mailboxes would be embraced by seniors because it would get them out of the house and they would appreciate the exercise. Was he wrong?

    13. SK_sht_dstrbr on

      Only 25% of Canadians have door to door mail delivery. Accommodations can be made by Canada Post for those that can’t go to a community mail box. If someone can’t make it to a community box they probably already have some type of home care or family that can get their mail for them. I don’t see the issue with this. They also need to go farther and do twice a week delivery.

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