I just think there should be a way of delivering mail te home just for the people who need it. Old, disabled, remote locations… I can walk 100m to my community mailbox and empty it in the trash right next to it. But many can’t.

[–] orioler25@lemmy.ca 15 points 12 hours ago

Reread your own comment dude, ffs. The post service is the way that we deliver mail to the people who need it. You're saying you don't want that guaranteed and also want the state to determine who is and is not "deserving" enough to receive their mail with the money everyone pays into the system. Can you explain why you'd prefer people be forced to report their disabilities to the state in the hopes that they'll be able to receive their bills, tax and voting documents, ID registration/renewal forms, or whatever kind of crucial mail that they'd require to make their lives easier in this shit system over you being mildly annoyed by ads that you can request an end to anyway? Is it the unionized jobs that you hate? Fuck's sake.

This is the kind of person who votes in neolibs because they don't have the object permanence to understand what happens when you make a system more "efficient." People like this are why they're cutting 500k addresses.

[–] dom@lemmy.ca 27 points 15 hours ago

We get a bunch of mail that isnt spam and I would greatly miss canada post

But yes don't mind having neighbourhood mailboxes. Even if they were much further apart.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 24 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

A nice life hack to know, straight from the Canada Post website:

How to stop receiving unaddressed advertising mail

To stop receiving unaddressed advertising mail, simply put a note on your mailbox stating that you do not wish to receive it. Place the note in or on your mailbox where your delivery agent can see it, or on the inside lip of your community mailbox, group mailbox or postal box.

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 12 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I prefer Canada Post parcel deliveries over any other company, tbh. Having dedicated boxes to safekeep my parcel is awesome.

[–] orioler25@lemmy.ca 7 points 12 hours ago

Pretty great to also know the delivery driver is actually paid and has access to a washroom if need be.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 5 points 14 hours ago

I live on my own, and so rarely is anyone home to get package deliveries, so Canada Post having the option to use their location as an RPO for things like Amazon and Ebay is a lifesaver for me rather than having it dumped on my porch.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

They already do this.

https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/our-company/accessibility/delivery-accommodation-program.page

I'm not sure precisely what's involved, but they make home delivery exceptions for exactly this purpose. Sounds to me like a doctors note is pretty much all that's required.

[–] orioler25@lemmy.ca 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Okay, do you see how this may be an issue when primary care is infamously difficult to access and that it creates a condition that people disclose disabilities to the state just to ensure that they can receive their mail? This is for community mailboxes, but it does reiterate a precedent that is harmful to particular vulnerable groups and diminishes the notion that a mail service is something you're guaranteed access to by the state.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago

In all honesty, no. I did not consider the latter. It's a good point, and my previous comment was only intended to point out that there are provisions for those who work within the system.

However, I often forget that the system does not apply its benefits equally. In an ideal situation, you should be able to disclose a disability to a government with the knowledge and assuredness that leads to support. But yes, more often than not it leads to discrimination and denial of services instead.

[–] ag10n@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

There should be a Canadian public solution for deliveries and mail.

[–] orioler25@lemmy.ca 4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

That would be Canada Post, it's a crown corp. One of the biggest issues with neoliberalism is its simultaneous erosion of public works and extraction of public wealth in service of privatization or, in Canada, "mixed" economics that value business-brained short-term decision making as a form of efficiency. The state recognizes Canada Post as a public service that is organized like a private corporation for efficiency and sustainability, it was reorganized in the 1980s (when neoliberalism emerged) in direct response to the power of labour unions and increasing expense of the public service.

The reason why they call this state-owned is to alter the meaning of "public." This is what you're gonna get as a public solution in Canada so long as we let capitalist imperatives dictate our decision-making.

[–] ag10n@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

No shit We have a system that can be improved

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm so fucking tired of neoliberals. At least with conservatives you know where they stand. Neoliberals pretend to be progressive while acting as fascism's PR team. All they do is fight leftists and set the stage for the next fascist takeover.

If you don't stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything

[–] orioler25@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That's just how liberalism has always functioned. It is fundamentally a settler-colonial set of politics that seeks to objectify human action as commodity; any claim to social justice is a result of forced concessions and long-term appropriation tactics. Neoliberals do not pretend to be progressive, they use language that they know will appeal to liberals who are too illiterate to understand their own bigoted internalized values. Conservatives (the PC party as well as conservatism in the twenty-first century) are not fundamentally opposed to liberalism's basis of hierarchal material wealth and capitalist economics, they mostly differ in the audiences they target.

Fascism and liberalism are also not fundamentally opposed by any means, and fascism is more accurately described as a liberal tool than anything else since one is far more durable than the other. It is a philosophy that depends on the subordination of other groups to exist and the creation of an arbitrary privileged group to benefit from that subordination (such as how poor white men will confuse their racial and gender identity as a level of solidarity with wealthy white men and how whiteness can shift depending on how it benefits the maintenance of this hierarchy). Liberalism emerged out of white-supremacist, patriarchal settler-colonial states and very much still operates under the imperatives created by that social order, which is where fascists get their notions of race and gender from and why their criticisms of liberalism are more often oriented around its failure to effectively benefit naturalized privileged groups like men and white men especially. It's more difficult to explain how these ideologies are different and yet cooperate in a nearly identical way as seen in Germany, Italy, and Spain during the early- to mid-twentieth century than it is to identify their common material interests and motivations.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Precisely. They're both right wing parties, they only care about themselves

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

This sounds like you're arguing for privatisation...

[–] Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago

Wow, there it is...the dumbest comment I've read today.

Perfectly opinionated, shares a problem that's easily solvable but blames it on Canada Post, and so moronically wrong.

🏆 Here's your award, friend.