• Quilotoa@lemmy.caOP
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    8 days ago

    Yeah. I’ve never had home delivery of mail. Always gone to boxes. I don’t see what the big deal is.

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      8 days ago

      Not everyone is able-bodied, friend. Imagine being a wheelchair user when your neighbours can’t be bothered to shovel and the city hasn’t plowed.

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        7 days ago

        If you’re not able bodied, you can let Canada Post know and the carrier will bring it to your door once a week.

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        8 days ago

        Yes I can because I’ve never had to door mail where I live. As a matter of fact, 75% of Canadian homes don’t have to door mail. This doesn’t seem fair.

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      Mostly a big deal in dense cities, apparently. Figuring out where to put a great many of them when most of the space is taken up by other things. They’re considering using parking spots for some of them, which has raised questions about the safety of the people accessing them. Other solutions and problems as well. Everywhere I have lived for the last 25 years has had these boxes, and they tend to build spots into new neighbourhoods to support them, but subdivisions aren’t super dense, so I can see why cities might have challenges.

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        8 days ago

        One place I lived had no boxes or home delivery. I had to go the the post office.

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          I remember the post office having a foyer full of little PO boxes that were loaded from the rear, and most people in town had to go there to get their mail. That was in small town Ontario 40 years ago, but they’d have probably used these super boxes now instead.