Snail mail, courier-home or central delivery

[shootingstar]

So our national snail mail postal service is under review for its financial viability, including door-to-door delivery.

I've been accustomed door-to-door snail mail delivery. In past 20 years, it has been central point --in a apt./ condo building that I live in. For pkgs. by courier, we do have it handled by our security staff in our building.

I admit --I like the convenience of shuffling down in my lousy t-shirt and slippers and getting my mail without stepping outside. And those of us who live snowy,icy winters..it really is nice to have that convenience. True, we get less snail mail due to email, online transactions.

During early mornings, I remember as a child, the milkman delivering milk in glass bottles to our door. This was the early-mid 1960's. I lived in a small city at that time.

Door-to-door service makes up 36.7 per cent of mail deliveries today, according to Canada Post statistics in the report. Deliveries to community mailboxes comprise 20.6 per cent and shipments to centralized points such as apartments make up 21.9 per cent.
The report also recommends a "significant one-time" stamp price increase for letter mail be considered to strengthen Canada Post's balance sheet and make it easier to borrow funds for modernization. It suggested per-stamp increases of five cents to seven cents would be required over two years. Each one-cent increase brings in $30-million a year.


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