Union lobbying city to support door-to-door mail
A local union is lobbying hard to bring back a service members call crucial to the community.
Door-to-door mail is an essential service Ellen Bowles with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers said. Her group will be in Prince Albert city council tonight asking the municipality to write a letter to the federal government in support of reinstating door-to-door service.
“We believe that Canadians should have better services and we believe those [community] mail boxes are not the best service that could be provided in terms of mail delivery. We believe that door-to-door should be in every community and we’re just on the road advocating for people to support that,” Bowles said.
Late 2016, a federal standing committee recommended a freeze on the construction of community mailboxes and bringing back delivery to those cities that lost it. Other recommendations included continuing a moratorium on post outlet closures, and suggestions to provide other services like banking or accessibility to broadband from the outlets. Bowles said postal outlets should be better utilized, not closed.