I see what he's doing - showing up all over the news to comment on events where the conversations are happening in the media. I quite like that.
this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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But why? So the privileged portion of the population that bought a home before the 2000's can continue to have door to door delivery?
That's kind of a weird connection, like saying "why do we need a fire department, just so that the privileged portion of the population that bought a home before the 2000s can continue to not have their houses burn down".
Like, I get the anger, and yes we do have a housing crisis and the NDP has a policy about building non market housing to address it:
We can also reinvent Canada post to be much more than flyer deliveries:
It's not about the housing crisis. It's about new builds not having door to door.
Frankly I agree with them, community boxes make way more sense and other systems should exist for people with limited mobility that address the issue at large rather than this one thing.
What so you mean new builds?2/3 of Canada was not getting home delivery that is more then just new builds. Neighbourhood is from the 70s no delivery. Unless that isba new build.
More of inconsistency. I couldn't make a generalized statement to account for everything which is my fault for trying.
It's not really, regardless of your home ownership status the fire dept will come rescue you from any burning building you're in.
To be clear I fully support Canada Post as a federal public service, and want to see it's funding stabilized without the stupid "self-supporting corporation" thing.
But community mailboxes are an efficiency, while door delivery is an inefficient luxury for fewer and fewer people. It's a weird hill to stake a claim on as the NDP leader.
There's way better things to talk about regarding Canada Post, like all those issues you shared link regarding.
I misunderstood your comment then, I thought you were making a point against Canada Post.
The way I understand it (could be wrong), the point of defending door to door delivery is defending Canada Post from shriveling and defending it from the logic of profitability. It's not a rebalancing of its resources, it's just cutting.
At the same time, in cities like mine, in Montreal, that have the "missing middle", community boxes are not that practical. And if we were serious about infill development (plexes everywhere), most cities in Canada should be becoming more like Montreal.
In Toronto, every subway station should have a postal station in it, that you can pick up your package at the subway station/ post office. Instead of getting it dropped off on your porch. There should be a subway going to the Pearson Airport, there are 50,000 people working at Pearson. It should have been built years ago. This would greatly ease traffic congestion near the airport. It would also make getting packages easier, because they won't be stolen from the porch.
The problem is that the 3 levels of government never cooperate, so we can't have efficient things.
Home delivery is an inefficient lurxury service for ever fewer people, and postal service requires no coordintion it's entirely federal.
And yes, there should be more trains, everywhere in Canada.
There are very few letters being delivered, but people are ordering many more packages.
I think that each region needs to figure out what is efficient for it. In Toronto the governments have done a really poor job with subways. Each station should have a post-office station so as you ride public transit, you can pick-up your package. The subway should go to airport where packages could just be loaded onto trains and delivered to the subway stations. Places like Japan fund their public transit with commercial leases inside subway stations, something that Toronto doesn't do.
I could also see a, LCBO/Post Office/Service Ontario/Library, combination being a good thing.
The problem is that we really aren't imaginative or have a government ambitious enough to get things done properly. It's infighting between all our governments (municipal/provincial/federal) and our Crown Corporations.
Its not even that it seems random. I've lived most of my life in a bedroom community and have never had door delivery.
Why is that such a bad thing?
It's an inefficient luxury service for an ever smaller potion of the population. Why would the NDP want to prop that up?
There are many better policies we should discuss to improve Canada Post, door delivery is becoming a political dog whistle for boomer political support.
I'll tell you exactly why the NDP would support it. Because the NDP supports labour.
It's an inefficient luxury service
It's a level of service that used to be bog-standard. Fighting for service cuts to avoid paying a couple extra bucks on the tax bill, and opening the door for extremely shitty and exploitative private entities to pick up the slack β that's pretty much the boomer legacy in a nutshell.
To be clear, I don't have an issue with community mailboxes. It's the political context that makes this worth arguing about.
So, I bought my house in 2011 and am a millennial. I still have home delivery. You seem like you want to enshitify something because you don't benefit directly.