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MERRITT HERALD TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 • MERRITT NEWSPAPERS
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No change in hours coming to post office By Michael Potestio the herald
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SWEET SOUNDS OF FOWL MOUTH MCPHEE Vancouver/Merritt band Fowl Mouth McPhee played to a crowd of about a dozen gathered at Spirit Square Saturday for the sixth instalment of Music in the Square. Merritt’s Tammy Weymouth (left) played the kitchen implements during the folk band’s set on a beautiful sunny afternoon while harmonizing with singer-guitarist Karen Fowlie (centre) and Christie McPhee. Emily Wessel/Herald
Canada Post is not planning to change the Merritt post office’s hours of operation. After announcing its intention to reconfigure the Merritt post office to a postal service centre — which would have reduced the number of counter stations from two to one and moved all product on display in the front of the store to behind the lone counter — the Crown corporation has decided not to go ahead with those changes, Canada Post spokesperson John Caines told the Herald. The new configuration was also expected to equip the local post office with new parcel compartment boxes set up inside the post office. At this time, no changes will be made to Canada Post’s location in Merritt, Caines said. In a letter to the editor that appeared in the Tuesday, July 29 edition of the Merritt Herald, former Canadian Union of Postal Workers president for the Kamloops area Bob Mitchell wrote the one change that would go into effect was a change to the post office’s opening hour from the current 8:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. However, Caines said the post office will not change
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from its current hours of operation at this time. Caines said Canada Post reviewed the Merritt post office. “We review everything on its merit and we decided that at this time we’re not going to go ahead with it,” Caines said. In a letter sent to Merritt city council back in May, Canada Post officer for delivery operations communications Tom Creech stated the Crown corporation expected to be operational in Merritt under the new configuration “within the next couple of months.” He also stated in the letter that “this new post office configuration will allow us to maintain service to customers while operating more efficiently.” Canada Post spokesperson Anick Losier told the Herald there was “no particular reason” the company decided to forego changes to the local post office. “This was a business decision to not make those changes at this time and that’s pretty much what it is,” Losier said. “It’s not one, single reason that says ‘OK, we’re not going to do this right now,’” Losier said. “It’s not a simple explanation.”
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