A week ago I see Ken Merritt - local P.O. Supervisor - about only a single Community Mailbox (CMB) questionnaire sent to individual local street-addresses, disregarding multiple/separate mail-receiving occupancies/households at the same address. With eventual decisions on CMBs' location, etc. supposedly to be based in all-inclusiveness. Go figure!
But then we've already had - thus should not be surprised at anything -
The head of Canada Post says seniors have told the corporation they want more exercise and fresh air, in answer to a comment how the elderly will be especially hard-hit by the cancellation of home mail delivery.
Leslie MacKinnon, CBC News, 18 Dec. 2013
Merritt says he will connect with someone in charge about my concerns and let me know.
See
Community Mailboxes - The Latest! (Part 1)
following immediately below this post.
But not having heard from him within the following week: I now write to Ottawa directly and go to see Merritt again! at the P.O.
Letter First -
To: service@canadapost.ca
CC: info@cominfo-ottawa.org
(These addresses are rather indirect - but with all that CMB info available on
http://ottawa-cioc.ca/record/ocr3222
no email-address is provided for the CMB nerve-center specifically. Of course not! The only contact possible through 1.877.761.9076 - with the old how-may-I-be-of-service-today shine-on. Thus no printed comprehensive record possible.
Please forward to the appropriate office:
Almost two weeks ago CMB First-Step Questionnaires were delivered in Nelson BC. With only a single questionnaire sent to one street-address - seemingly targeting a no-name owner (present on the premises or not: immaterial).
Seeing that Nelson houses/buildings frequently have additional/separate permanent mail-receiving occupants: those did not receive this questionnaire - thus may not even know and will not be part of the promised step-by-step process towards CMBs in their neighborhood.
Summarily excluded! Making results of the First Step incomplete/inconclusive and escalate into all following steps becoming less-and-less reality-based: ostensibly skewing the eventual result drastically!
Initially it baffled me that Canada Post (CP) made no allowances for basic urban renters' accommodation. But maybe we are just not as essential in this process as we have been led to believe. As CP could not possibly be unaware of renters: this - to us renters! - looks like deliberate manipulation of the process to keep CP's separate reality compact and simple. Clearly - the fewer of us Nelsonites can address our overall topographical unevenness - steep hills in winter, etc. - the easier it may be for CP to disregard this fact as negligible.
Regardless - benefit of the doubt! - for the sake of Nelson within CP's step-by-step plan: provisions should have been made for input of permanent mail-receiving non-owners to be included in the conversion-process. This could have been (still could be!) easily done by having stacks of questionnaires available at the local P.O. and its sub-stations, with a press-release alerting the general public and the submission-period of 4 weeks extended.
But then - I suggested this at the local P.O. one week ago: and - nothing!
I could not resist in this re-telling adding some emphatic! clarifications to the letter. And if Merritt should ever let me have the promised CMB email-address in Ottawa (see under The P.O. - Again! below): I will send this version+! CMB email-address or not - small steps but steps nonetheless - keeping at it is the thing!
In a generally more responsive Nelson - walking-the-talk - streams of individuals/groups would make their opinions known at the local P.O. Have a sit-in! Disrupt! In Victoria and Ottawa! But - again and again! - where are they when not talking-the-talk over their low-fat-sprinkled-soy-latte?
And where are the Nelson Star (self-appointed community newspaper) and The Nelson Daily?
While I feel more and more: we're brazenly getting steamrollered by Deepak Chopra - President & CEO (Tel. 613.734.8440), his 21 Vice-Presidents and Presidents plus - of course - the Harper. With this step-by-step public-participation-conversion mostly a P.R.-stunt!
A possible glimmer at the end of the tunnel: Chopra's contract will expire in 2016, and with Harper then gone - I envision Chopra and their boxed vision following him forthwith! But we must disappear Harper first!
The P.O. - Again!
This time Merritt tells me he indeed had contacted his "manager" about additional questionnaires, etc. but hasn't had a reply. One week! Right! I ask him for the definitive CMB email-address - he says he'll get it for me soon, right now he's too busy. Then leaves and not too busy returns with the general-CMB-matters phone-number. And earnestly promises to CC to me another email to his manager - this based on my now more in-your-face position.
In the meantime - the 4 weeks for sending-in questionnaires have dwindled down to about 2-and-counting, and even if Ottawa were to send an additional few thousand pro forma: extending the 4-week period - not to their advantage - surely would be a no-go anyway!
Like - the longer they drag out this farce - the more directly they can stick to whatever plan behind the plan: with minimal irritating/complicating push-back from us!
Debbie Bird, Union Vice-President, informs me of a rally:
SAVE DOOR TO DOOR DELIVERY
Mon. 17 Aug. 2pm
City Hall Plaza
So - go already!
And when the time comes: Vote Mulcair!
I mean - how could you not!
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