WATCH: As home delivery is set to end in many Montreal-area neighbourhoods, a number of mayors are leading the fight to save door-to-door mail delivery by Canada Post carriers. Tim Sargeant has more.
POINTE-CLAIRE – West Island cities and towns are joining the chorus of opposition against Canada Post’s plans to replace door-to-door mail deliveries with community mailboxes.
Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Baie-D’Urfé, Beaconsfield, Kirkland, Pointe-Claire, Dorval and Montreal West have joined or intend to join a lawsuit against the government-owned corporation to stop the community mailboxes from ever being used.
“Pointe-Claire is an older city and we have lots of senior citizens as you know and it’s an inconvenience for them,” Mayor Morris Trudeau said.
The legal action already includes the cities of Montreal, Laval, Longueuil and Westmount.
Canada Post is phasing out the door-to-door deliveries during the next five years as a cost-cutting measure, but the government-owned corporation posted profits of $198 million in 2014 with revenues of $7.98 billion.
Some carriers are frustrated that the hand delivery mail system that’s been a staple of Canada Post for more than 100 years is coming to an end.
“I have a lot of people saying they’ll miss me when I’m gone,” mail carrier Christian Coulombe told Global News on his route in Pointe-Claire.
The West Island suburb already has community boxes installed and they’re scheduled to go into operation later this summer.
So far no boxes have been installed in Montreal West and the town’s mayor is fighting to keep it that way.
“When you have a built up community like Montreal West, Westmount, TMR (Town of Mount Royal) you don’t have the space for these kind of things. It’s just going to be an eyesore,” Mayor Beny Masella told Global News.
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