The Editor,
Re. “Mail service suspended on PoMo hill” (The Tri-City News, Nov. 27).
After reading the article, I felt a letter was in order exposing the larger problem in the postal service that has now become evident and affecting us all, one way or another.
Just in the last month I’ve experienced two problems having mail delivered in a timely manner: once to Ladner and, as yet, cheques being delivered to a company in Coquitlam that I mailed a month ago, inside the Port Coquitlam postal outlet on Shaughnessy Street. I have stopped using street mailboxes as I feel they can’t be trusted to be tamper-proof, having two pieces of mail never delivered to their destination after posting them in a mailbox at Shaughnessy Station.
Speaking recently with a friend in North Vancouver, she also said she has experienced poor postal service along with her neighbours and friends.
Postal service is breaking down even though postal rates are escalating regularly.
The way I see it, once the poor postal service becomes common knowledge across the country, through the public voicing its issues, we will be told the service has become so wrought with problems that the only way to save it is to install central mailboxes in every neighbourhood, resulting in discontinuing door-to-door service.
Shame on Canada Post. It will have to do better.
M. Sikorra, Port Coquitlam
