Support for mail delivery

The following letter, to MP David Tilson, was submitted to the Citizen.

Please accept my congratulations and grateful thanks for extracting an undertaking from the minister responsible, to issue a directive to Canada Post.

I hope they will have enough common sense to realize that several thousand angry people will be watching the progress of this directive, and will not tolerate any delaying tactics such as a totally unnecessary general election, union interference, ignoring complaints, obfuscation and so forth. I shall be following the matter very closely indeed.

I have just received a letter from the project manager of this mess, informing me that I have, in fact, two postal codes, one for my rural mailbox and one for my post office box. I should ask why it took over a year to answer this simple question, but there's no point, since I already know the reason.

What I would really like to know is, why did all corespondents suddenly start using my "second" code, the one I had given to nobody? Where did they get it from? If they know my correct code better than I do, then why did I have to inform them in the first place?

I have explained the situation to them at least three times, but in the end it boils down to a system run by dedicated, intelligent people in our local post office who know everyone and can get it right; what Canada Post describes as "tribal knowledge" or, to use your more civilized expression "traditional rural mail delivery."

Thanks once again, and I'm very glad to note that the petition received such good support.

John C. Tysoe

Cheltenham