Canada Post is preparing to convert an additional 485,000 homes across Canada from door-to-door delivery to community mailboxes in 2027, as part of the Crown corporation’s attempt to modernize and return to financial self-sustainability.
I’m not sure precisely what’s involved, but they make home delivery exceptions for exactly this purpose. Sounds to me like a doctors note is pretty much all that’s required.
Okay, do you see how this may be an issue when primary care is infamously difficult to access and that it creates a condition that people disclose disabilities to the state just to ensure that they can receive their mail? This is for community mailboxes, but it does reiterate a precedent that is harmful to particular vulnerable groups and diminishes the notion that a mail service is something you’re guaranteed access to by the state.
In all honesty, no. I did not consider the latter. It’s a good point, and my previous comment was only intended to point out that there are provisions for those who work within the system.
However, I often forget that the system does not apply its benefits equally. In an ideal situation, you should be able to disclose a disability to a government with the knowledge and assuredness that leads to support. But yes, more often than not it leads to discrimination and denial of services instead.
They already do this.
https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/our-company/accessibility/delivery-accommodation-program.page
I’m not sure precisely what’s involved, but they make home delivery exceptions for exactly this purpose. Sounds to me like a doctors note is pretty much all that’s required.
Okay, do you see how this may be an issue when primary care is infamously difficult to access and that it creates a condition that people disclose disabilities to the state just to ensure that they can receive their mail? This is for community mailboxes, but it does reiterate a precedent that is harmful to particular vulnerable groups and diminishes the notion that a mail service is something you’re guaranteed access to by the state.
In all honesty, no. I did not consider the latter. It’s a good point, and my previous comment was only intended to point out that there are provisions for those who work within the system.
However, I often forget that the system does not apply its benefits equally. In an ideal situation, you should be able to disclose a disability to a government with the knowledge and assuredness that leads to support. But yes, more often than not it leads to discrimination and denial of services instead.