Canada Post is putting a halt to its rollout of community mailboxes as part of its plan to replace door-to-door mail delivery.
Tecumseh Mayor Gary McNamara was a vocal opponent of the plan and calls the move "welcome news" for his community.
"I don't know of one [community] that says, 'hey thank you for these boxes, we love it,'" says McNamara. "There's an opportunity now to fix this thing."
McNamara feels the move by Canada Post was inevitable with the Liberals set to form government.
"It shouldn't be a big surprise. Obviously, both Liberals and the NDP had said they were going to restore door-to-door and I'm sure that there's been tremendous push back," says McNamara, confident the Liberals will hold true to their commitment. "I think so. If that wasn't the case, then obviously there wouldn't have been an announcement."
The Tecumseh mayor hopes transitioning away from the community mailboxes is handled better than how Canada Post worked to roll them out.
"This whole rush to get these boxes [installed] when we said, 'no, you need really to look at having better lines of communication,'" says McNamara. "Even when we had them come to council they wouldn't hear of it."
Nearly half a million households across the country will now keep door-to-door service which was set to be replaced by community mailboxes over the next two months. However, as it stands now, there are no plans to reinstate door-to-door service for those households which have already had community mailboxes installed.
