Tuesday, December 17, 2013

The elemanation of mail delverly

The Canadian government wants to stop delivering mail door to door by 2019. Instead people can get their mail for a centralized location. Here are a list of reasons why I think this is a bad idea:

  • A lot of really good people will loose jobs, adding to our already bad employment rate.
  • It will be more difficult for the old and disabled to get their mail. 
  • It will be more difficult for people to get the mail in hevrly populated areas.
  • It is better for the environment to car pool or take the bus then it is to take an individual car to work. Similarly it is better for the environment to pool mail togeahter like they do rather then have severl diffrent people drive to pick it up. 
  • If your mailbox is not in walking distance you may not get the mail right away, you might "put it off" and miss an import message. 
  • Having all the mail in the same place might make snooping through someone elses mail more tempting. To stop this they might introduce a key but this can lead to the inconvenience of loosing your key.
  • Central mail boxes will have to be built and this will take space that could be used for something more useful like houses, office buildings or parks.
To end this post off, I would like to list all of the things we still get by physical mail:
  •  Physical goods bought online(though yes an expesive company like UPS is an alturative and they may contiune to deliver to your door.) 
  • Junk mail(did I say all the items on this list would be positve things) 
  • Cristmass presents(speaking of which I can't wait till Christmas too bad it will be a rather long wait :))
  • Legal stuff 
  • Bills(though you can have these sent to you online).
  • Letter from uh... older people(sorry) 
  • Other stuff 
So as you can see the phyiscal mail is not as useful as it once was but it still in use for many things.

2 comments:

  1. Yikes. That would suck, especially if your local post office wasn't well... local.

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  2. To be honest this was not as bad as I thought it would be.

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