This post follows
Community Mailboxes - The Latest Latest (Part 2)
and
Community Mailboxes - The Latest (Part 1)
immediately below.
Hamilton (Jon Hamilton, spokesperson with Canada Post - CP) added that Canada Post is open to negotiating the placement of boxes.
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On average, Hamilton said, Canada Post has moved about 15 to 20 per cent of the new community boxes based on feedback from area residents.
Canada Post agrees to move community mailboxes on St. Vital street
cbcnews.ca, 17 Aug. 2015
This is about residents complaining about a particular community mailbox (CMB) placed in a location with dangerous access: heavy, fast traffic in between and no crosswalk towards it.
Hamilton said however the move will take several months as Canada Post will have to figure out a new and appropriate place to install them.
Same story, CTV Winnipeg, 16 Aug. 2015
Another paradox: what may happen in Nelson. While negotiating ostensibly will include all - not all have been provided with the means to negotiate.
For those who did receive questionnaires and are frustrated over them not allowing for expanded input: Ottawa simply doesn't care - otherwise they would have asked and made provisions for it - hello! So they surely won't read your stuff - no matter how you get it to them! Expecting reasonableness, a logical approach is a waste of energy. Regardless of how bizarre it may seem that a project of this size - years in the making - could be so disjointed. We're stuck inside the reality of Alice in Wonderland: the faster they go - the behinder they get!
This St. Vital news-item is emblematic of the wonderful, wacky world of CP: If they were seriously interested in negotiating: why did 15 to 20 per cent of the CMBs installed have to be moved? Moved after how many months? More silly questions: Isn't placement-planning the bottom-line of the proposed step-by-step involvement of residents? If not this - what? Wouldn't all-around satisfactory negotiating (before!) moot or at least minimize the need for feedback (after!)? But on average 15 to 20 per cent and nowhere near done? At what cost!
Example - gotta love this: The Montreal mayor's recent feedback with a jackhammer on the concrete base of a not negotiated placement!
I've been mainly focusing on non-availability of questionnaires to many renters here. Attempting to demonstrate how little the great unwashed matter in how this whole conversion-thing has been put (un)together: resulting in no more than Potemkin villages! And seemingly planned to never be more than that!
With only far-up-the-ladder intimates knowing what's what: very-low-rung Ken Merritt of the local P.O. doesn't and neither does Norm Ouellet, his district-supervisor in Castlegar. Our point-men - both are winging it! Poorly!
Merritt still hadn't received his sample-questionnaire and all-purpose instructions the day after forms had been delivered - by his own carriers! - to street-addresses in Nelson.
Ouellet justified impromptu why no questionnaires have gone to many legit renters and weren't made available at the local P.O. with: illegal basements and people would take bunches from the P.O to make up stuff in them.
Spokesman Jon Hamilton: Ottawa's voice of reason - a jumping jack.
But never mind all that - don't let the Mad Hatter's tea party confuse you: JUST VOTE!
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