{"id":23298,"date":"2013-12-11T16:10:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T21:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=23298"},"modified":"2013-12-11T16:10:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T21:10:59","slug":"canada-post-to-phase-out-home-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/12\/11\/canada-post-to-phase-out-home-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Post to phase out home delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t had home delivery of my mail for the last few decades, but for folks downtown it&#8217;s going to be an unwelcome change. The decision forced itself on the crown corporation through the arcane workings of economic reality: it just costs too much money to deliver to those millions of homes (a tweet I forgot to save said it cost over $200 per year for home delivery and just over $100 for communal mailboxes). The news is not going down well with at least one member of the official opposition, as Colby Cosh pointed out in a series of tweets:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>It&#39;s OK, everybody, you can just switch your business over to one of the other post offices.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Colby Cosh (@colbycosh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colbycosh\/statuses\/410808426982555649\">December 11, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>I love when social democrats do this \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cselley\">@cselley<\/a>: &quot;Conservatives are destroying Canadians&#39; long-treasured postal services,&quot; says Olivia Chow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Colby Cosh (@colbycosh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colbycosh\/statuses\/410840725220110336\">December 11, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>If there were a government agency that inserted a bullwhip into your anus twice a week, the NDP would call it &quot;essential&quot; and &quot;cherished&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Colby Cosh (@colbycosh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colbycosh\/statuses\/410841177160572930\">December 11, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>&quot;This heartless government is determined to destroy the Bullwhip Anus service on which so many Canadians have come to rely.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Colby Cosh (@colbycosh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colbycosh\/statuses\/410841350221737985\">December 11, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>&quot;Why are neocons gratuitously attacking our selfless, courageous Bullwhip Anus workers?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Colby Cosh (@colbycosh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colbycosh\/statuses\/410841484670148608\">December 11, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Reminder: you are breaking the law if you use a private courier to deliver a letter, at *any* price,that is not &quot;of an urgent nature&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Colby Cosh (@colbycosh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colbycosh\/statuses\/410842088628948992\">December 11, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t had home delivery of my mail for the last few decades, but for folks downtown it&#8217;s going to be an unwelcome change. 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