News earlier this week that Canada Post plans to phase out door-to-door delivery of regular mail to urban residents hit K&K pretty hard, right in our mail satchel, you could say. And not just because we’ve long harboured fantasies of donning a pair of Canada Post-issued shorts and getting super fit and tan delivering mail.
Peering into our mailbox and seeing a letter with our name on it, even if it’s a credit card statement, subscription notice or Reitmans’ catalogue, makes our cold dark heart twinkle for a few seconds.
We’re sure generations from now people will look back at the practice of door-to-door delivery, or mail for that matter, as quaint and impractical, much like the Pony Express or condoms. But we’ll be sad to see our home mailbox go empty, even if it does save some much-needed money for the cash-strapped Canada Post, which also announced it would be raising the cost of postage significantly. Some are saying that a standard letter, which currently costs 63 cents to send anywhere in the country, could cost as much as $1, and we’ve read plenty of complaints on Facebook and Twitter from people who never pass up the opportunity to express their indignation towards petty things. Seriously, a loonie to send an actual physical object thousands of miles to a specific destination in just few days is still a bargain, if you ask us. And we’re the cheapest people we know.
So until that sad, fateful day when we have to walk down the block to a big impersonal, multi-resident mail dispenser, serviced by anonymous mail drones who’ll never know the bite of an angry dog or be invited in for “tea” from a lonely housewife or househusband, we’re going to savour every last letter from our grandmother, postcard from gloating friends and piece of junk mail addressed to us.
