REGINA – The Canadian Union of Postal Workers is on a campaign to get Canada Post to reverse its decision to end door-to-door mail delivery across the country.
“We feel the fight isn’t over yet,” said Gord Samulak who works as a rural and suburban mail carrier and is a member of the union.
Moose Jaw, Prince Albert, and Yorkton will be the first Saskatchewan locations to convert from door-to-door mail delivery to community mailboxes by the fall of 2015, impacting 11,007, 9,517 and 5,622 addresses, respectively.
“And that’s something that we don’t want to see, and I know Canadians don’t want to see in general,” said Samulak.
The union wants door-to-door service to expand and see the company use postal banking and financial services to generate more revenue.
Canada Post has sent out information packages and a mail-in survey to the aforementioned cities to gather information on residents’ location preferences on the new delivery method.
The company stressed that no employees will lose their job as a result of the changes, but the move will reduce their workforce over time through attrition.
The union is also collecting signatures for a petition that will eventually be sent to the House of Commons, something it hopes won’t be ignored.
“We have an election coming up next year too and we’ll see where that goes as well,” said Samulak.
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