NDP vowing to return door-to-door postal delivery

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The NDP says if it forms the next federal government, Canadians will get door-to-door mail delivery back.

With all of the recent problems surrounding the installation of Canada Post community mailboxes on the mountain, it was fitting that the party chose Hamilton as the site to announce that if they win the next election, they will immediately end installation of those neighbourhood boxes and reinstate door-to-door mail delivery.

Deputy party leader Dave Christopherson was joined by Hamilton East MP Wayne Marston as he announced his party’s plans to rein in the crown corporation. Christopherson says an NDP government would begin a national dialogue and would even change legislation to ensure Canadians get the type of mail service they want.

“How do we know there weren’t other ideas that Canadians wouldn’t like a lot better. This was foisted on us, we were told by the government, Canada Post: ‘Here you go. Live with it.’ What we are saying is, ‘wait a minute, what other opportunities are there?’ And there may have been other options.”

Marston says he’s getting plenty of response from constitutents. “This is one of the hottest issues I have seen in the 10 years I have been elected to Parliament. We send out what we call the 10 percenters and we ask Canadians what they think. I’ve got at least five times the returns on this of anything else in the 10 years I have been in Parliament.”

“It is horrible in the sense that the responses, we normally have a check box, writing all around the edges with their frustrations, we call them back and, people are feeling neglected by Canada Post, they are not being consulted by them.”

“There is a whole litany of things. This is a change that Canadians need to be consulted on.”

The NDP says the cancellation of door-to-door delivery service has meant the elimination of between 6,000 and 8,000 good paying jobs. They say if they form government this coming fall they will reinstate all of those jobs.