[LINK] "You Have Mail a for-profit alternative to Canada Post home delivery"

[rfmcdonald]

I share this CBC article on the same day I found out that Canada Post claims to have dropped off a package at my home that I have not yet found. My sympathies are limited.

A new privately owned company called You Have Mail is preparing to fill the niche of home delivery once Canada Post stops delivering mail to individual homes.

“Continue to receive your mail at home,” promises the website of the Canadian upstart. "We know that with busy schedules, retrieving mail is the last thing you want to worry about, and we can help."

The company will start its service on Oct. 20 — the same day several urban communities start losing door delivery, as per Canada Post’s five-year transition plan.

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"We expected this kind of situation," says the president of the Montreal local union, Alain Duguay. "Slowly, we are moving towards privatization, market liberalization.”

Canada Post said over the summer that residents with doctor’s notes could continue to receive mail at home, but the union is skeptical that people will do that — either because they find the process degrading, or because the disability is only temporary.