City council asked to back demands to keep Canada Post’s door-to-door mail delivery

NEWS — The end of door-to-door mail delivery will be in front of Kamloops City council again today (Tuesday).

A letter from New Westminster mayor Wayne Wright asks federal Transport Minister Lisa Raitt to direct Canada Post to maintain doorstep delivery.

A resolution from Wright’s council asks other local governments to support New Westminster in its quest.

The resolution states that cutting door-to-door delivery in favour of community mailboxes “would entail the downloading of responsibilities, costs, and liabilities to local governments, including requirements for municipal land and rights-of-way, infrastructure such as paving and lighting, and policing related to vandalism, graffiti and mail theft.”

It says the change was announced without “meaningful consultation with local governments, Canada Post customers or postal workers.”

Kamloops council has previously expressed its unhappiness with postal service, firing off a letter last November protesting the downsizing of the downtown Post Office.

Canada Post announced changes to doorstep delivery a month later. Phasing out of door-to-door delivery is scheduled to start later this year and continue over the next five years.