The Toronto City government appears to be slowly waking up to the arrival of community mailboxes. An Ontario court concluded last week that Canada Post can put the boxes just about anywhere it likes.. That decision came from the valiant effort by Hamilton to get control over the march of these boxes, some of them the size of bus shelters. Whatever unchallenged right Canada Post has had to put boxes anywhere dates from the 19th Century. Community mailboxes will occupy an amount of land that was completely unanticipated by the government when the post office was formed. It represents a huge task to make sure these installations are safe and well-maintained. The City is now going to tell Canada Post about these concerns but it has been slow to wake up to the march of the community mailboxes. Canada Post says it intends to end door to door delivery in South Bayview in 2017. There’s also what appears to be clear departure from fair and equal treatment of all Canadians required by the constitution as the Post Office says it will continue door to door-to-door delivery in perpetuity to downtown neighbourhoods. How nice for them.
