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Mailbox plan put on hold
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Ladner could keep home delivery as Canada Post waits for gov’t direction SANDOR GYARMATI
more for less service, which is unacceptable. However, the Liberals stopped It looks like home mail delivshort of saying their government ery in Ladner has been spared would do an about-face and not for now. proceed with the service cancelCanada Post announced lation, let alone reverse the cuts Monday it is temporarily susalready implemented to certain pending its conversion of doorCanadian communities. to-door mail Home delivdelivery to ery began to be community phased out last mailboxes. year as a cost“All convercutting move, sions planned a program that for November was to eventuand ally see everyone December pick up their 2015 and mail at commuthose nity mailboxes. announced Ladner was PHOTO BY SANDOR GYARMATI the first comfor 2016 will Community mailboxes might be placed munity in the not be coming to Ladner after on hold,” a Lower Mainland spokesperson all. targeted, but said. no timeline was During the federal elecgiven when Tsawwassen and tion campaign, the victorious North Delta would follow suit. Liberals promised a moratorium It wasn’t clear if Ladner would on Canada Post’s plan to elimimake it in time for the new nate home delivery, pending government’s moratorium as a review of the postal agency’s Canada Post said it would begin operations. installing community mailboxes Prime minister-designate in the area last week. Justin Trudeau’s election platThe Canadian Union of Postal form, repeated by successful Workers Fraser Valley West Local Delta Liberal candidate Carla this week said Ladner residents Qualtrough, stated that by endwere scheduled to lose their ing door-to-door mail delivery home delivery as of Nov. 16. Stephen Harper’s government MAILBOX: see Page 3 was asking Canadians to pay s g y a r m a t i @ d e l t a - o p t i m i s t .c o m
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Cranberry fields, including this one on Ladner Trunk Road at 112th Street, are awash in colour these days as the harvesting process continues.
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