Door-to-door delivery could be offered — for a monthly fee
Some people are quite happy with Canada Post’s super-mailboxes (community mailboxes). Other people are dissatisfied with the phase-out of door-to-door delivery, so there are many complaints and protests.
In order to achieve maximum satisfaction, Canada Post could offer an optional door-to-door subscription at extra charge, say $9.99 per month.
This way, some recipients who desire door-to-door delivery will have what they want, while Canada Post will have an economically sustainable business in an environment of declining volume of snail-mail letters. Simon Sunatori, Gatineau
Fewer deliveries
The post office has taken an arrogant and unimaginative approach to mail delivery. Community boxes will imply snowclearing costs and disposal of inevitably discarded “trash mail,” not even discussed, as well as the increased time and hazards for seniors particularly.
Why not offer mail delivery three times per week? That would vastly simplify my life as an 84-year-old senior, not to have to dress for the worst of winter weather, including anti-skid boots, risking a fall to retrieve yet another handful of pizza ads. Very little mail is that important that it must be delivered five times per week.
Anger over the positioning of boxes has made news recently. This has just begun, especially in older parts of Ottawa with smaller lots where space for box intrusion will become a major issue as well as the resulting traffic jams.
Entrepreneurial companies will likely evolve to pick up your mail, for a fee, transferring the cost of delivery to the less mobile, instead of the post office. This is saving? Read: transferring costs to customers.
What is needed is imagination, perhaps a contest with the winner of an imaginative scheme getting five years of daily mail delivery. Robert Southern, Ottawa