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Originally Posted by bizaro86
I mean, the last time we had a Conservative government Harper announced a switch to community mailboxes from door to door delivery. The transition was in progress when he lost the election, and the Liberals immediately cancelled it when they came to power.
It doesn't seem like voting Conservative has caused this problem to me.
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You're right.
Obviously the move from door to door delivery to community mailboxes is one of those issues that the Liberals acted on to win votes. It being something that enough people were pissed off about.
There are good and reasonable arguments to be made for moving mail to community mailboxes. However, the biggest problem seemed to be where they decided to put them.
As I recall, the place where these boxes ended up in communities often caused a certain amount of controversy. The problem was they were unattractive visually i.e. "eyesores", negatively affected nearby house prices, attracted extra traffic, and were security risks. And when people tried to campaign against them they were ignored.
IMO it's one of those issues where the majority of people consider the benefits, of door to door mail, overrides the extra cost to subsidize the post office in order to keep it economically viable.