[Newsbot]

Title: Canada Post's 'super' mailboxes spur growing backlash
Category: Political
Posted By: OnTheIce
Date: 2015-05-15 05:59:53
Canadian

[OnTheIce]

Does anyone else find this to be as terrible as some of these politicans are making it out to be?

I just don't see what the big deal is here.

[DrCaleb]

No. We went from a regular post office to 'super mailboxes' at least 20 years ago. Service got worse, because they closed the local post office and moved it to a nearby convenience store. But their ineptness isn't the fault of Canada Post.

I've seen kids tip the mailboxes into ditches, and the snow is never cleared from around the boxes. And because the boxes are right along a rural road, there is often a bunch of cars stopped in the middle of the road because there is no parking near the boxes. The usual stuff.

I guess if you got used to home delivery, they would be a bit of a downgrade. But, life goes on. There are far more important things to be concerned with.

[OnTheIce]

When I moved 11 years ago, I moved to an area with the super box and I fail to see what the big deal is.

All of this talk about it harming seniors and the disabled is typical pro-union rhetoric.

[DrCaleb]

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

All of this talk about it harming seniors and the disabled is typical pro-union rhetoric.

It might be rhetoric, but they do have a point. Like I said, the mailbox I use is on the side of a rural road. Others I've seen are not maintained in the winter, and the facilities are not wheelchair accessible. I think the top row of boxes are 1.5m off the ground, so someone wheelchair bound would not be able to reach them, even if they could get their chair near them without sliding down into the ditch.

I doubt there is anyone wheelchair bound living out near me, because it's just not conducive to the rural lifestyle. But if there were, it's just another reason they'd have to move.

[Lemmy]

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

I just don't see what the big deal is here.

Yes you do. It's a big deal to you. You just waited until your subsequent post to reveal why it's a big deal to you.

[Alta_redneck]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

All of this talk about it harming seniors and the disabled is typical pro-union rhetoric.

It might be rhetoric, but they do have a point. Like I said, the mailbox I use is on the side of a rural road. Others I've seen are not maintained in the winter, and the facilities are not wheelchair accessible. I think the top row of boxes are 1.5m off the ground, so someone wheelchair bound would not be able to reach them, even if they could get their chair near them without sliding down into the ditch.

I doubt there is anyone wheelchair bound living out near me, because it's just not conducive to the rural lifestyle. But if there were, it's just another reason they'd have to move.

My mailbox is in the top row and I can drive right up beside it and never have to get out of the truck. With these being secured boxes I stop once a month unless I know I have a parcel coming my way, much more convenient than having to go to the post office.

Tipping them over? you should complain about that, the contractors down here that installed ours poured a cement slab and then they were bolted down, no ones tipping these ones over.

I say to super boxes

[andyt]

From what I understand they are very prone to break ins, that's my biggest concern. Also in dense areas there can be problems where to site them, and I get we'll get some traffic problems. Maybe a better option would be to go to 3 days a week delivery.

[Regina]

When we moved to this house just over 5 years ago it was the first time I'd had one. It's not really a super box since our cul-de-sac only has about 20 houses. I suppose the only disadvantage I can see is that you can't reach out the door in your gotch without being seen.
The best thing is that if I'm away for a bit the mail and flyers don't overflow my mail box at the front door. The other REALLY great thing is that if mail doesn't have my name on it, it goes right back into their mail box which is attached. I have no junk mail to recycle!!
Snow cleaning is good and I've never seen it vandalized either.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

When I moved 11 years ago, I moved to an area with the super box and I fail to see what the big deal is.

All of this talk about it harming seniors and the disabled is typical pro-union rhetoric.

Really? It must be nice to be so young and perfectly healthy. I know for me with my limited mobility I'm personally looking forward to hiking to a fucking superbox everyday just to find out if I have mail or not, especially come winter.

But hey, it's just pro-union rhetoric, right?

[ShepherdsDog]

We've had our post office broken into because some 'people' think it's a good idea to send drugs via Canada Post.

[andyt]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

We've had our post office broken into because some 'people' think it's a good idea to send drugs via Canada Post.

ONe of those people is called Stephen Harper. Maybe next they'll mandate shipping opioid prescriptions by mail too.

[ShepherdsDog]

Methadone seems to be the thing here. The clinic refuses to deal/store anything remotely narcotic because they've been broken into as well and staff have been threatened.

[andyt]

Oh, well, if drugs were legal....

[OnTheIce]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

I doubt there is anyone wheelchair bound living out near me, because it's just not conducive to the rural lifestyle. But if there were, it's just another reason they'd have to move.

Rural, road-side mailboxes aren't wheelchair accessible anyways.

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Really? It must be nice to be so young and perfectly healthy. I know for me with my limited mobility I'm personally looking forward to hiking to a fucking superbox everyday just to find out if I have mail or not, especially come winter.

But hey, it's just pro-union rhetoric, right?

Sure is.

How do you get groceries? How did anyone survive after we stopped door-to-door milk delivery?