I used to love walking a couple blocks to the post office when I lived in a small town. Personally, ending home delivery doesn't bother me. I hope all the old folks and people with reduced mobility can find a way to get their mail, though.
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2026
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The money supply grows at 7% a year, and somehow real estate prices keep going up, goods keep getting made cheaper and cheaper, food keeps degrading in quantity and quality, and we keep losing things we used to consider basic services.
I wonder if they are at all correlated.
Money supply growing at 7% is another way of saying inflation. You have to grow the economy, ie increase GDP.
yeah I can't believe how much things are now. Outside of computers and internet related things and more international food stuff everything from the way things ran in the 70's was perfectly modern and convenient but without so much plastic. I mean friggin lately we have been getting paper towel roles that consistantly have bad perforations. I have lived decades and while maybe once in a great while one would tear badly it was never such a matter of course. It was so unoften you would not remember the last time it happened. Now like ten sheets in every roll won't tear properly.
It could have something to do with this, which controls how fast the money supply increases, and how much your paychecks purchasing power needs to be debased via monetary inflation. If things get shittier and living standards fall it doesnt really take that into account and is considered out of scope.
https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/subjects-start/prices_and_price_indexes/consumer_price_indexes/faq
Is the CPI a cost of living index?
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is not equivalent to a cost-of-living index (COLI). The CPI has often been used to approximate cost-of-living but it is important to note that the CPI and COLI are not directly comparable.
The CPI is based on a fixed basket of goods and services, which represents the average Canadian household's spending habits. The CPI measures the average change in retail prices encountered by all consumers in Canada. By contrast, the objective of a COLI is to measure price changes experienced by consumers in maintaining a constant standard of living. A COLI can be linked to the notion of the minimum amount of money that would be necessary in different periods of time to ensure a given level of "well-being".
In short, the CPI measures the change in the cost of a fixed basket of goods and services, whereas a COLI measures the change in the cost of a fixed level of "well-being".
Keep people poor and desperate. I honestly just can't believe how bad it has been getting.
Many subdivisions already do this. The home I used to live in, we had to go to the end of the block to get our mail. It wasn't a community or HOA or anything. This was, oh, 15 years back.
I'm kind of looking forward to having community mailboxes honestly. I don't much mail and it's an excuse to get out of the house.
Yeah. I've never had home delivery of mail. Always gone to boxes. I don't see what the big deal is.
Not everyone is able-bodied, friend. Imagine being a wheelchair user when your neighbours can't be bothered to shovel and the city hasn't plowed.
If you're not able bodied, you can let Canada Post know and the carrier will bring it to your door once a week.
Yes I can because I've never had to door mail where I live. As a matter of fact, 75% of Canadian homes don't have to door mail. This doesn't seem fair.
Mostly a big deal in dense cities, apparently. Figuring out where to put a great many of them when most of the space is taken up by other things. They're considering using parking spots for some of them, which has raised questions about the safety of the people accessing them. Other solutions and problems as well. Everywhere I have lived for the last 25 years has had these boxes, and they tend to build spots into new neighbourhoods to support them, but subdivisions aren't super dense, so I can see why cities might have challenges.
One place I lived had no boxes or home delivery. I had to go the the post office.
I remember the post office having a foyer full of little PO boxes that were loaded from the rear, and most people in town had to go there to get their mail. That was in small town Ontario 40 years ago, but they'd have probably used these super boxes now instead.
That's small town living.
All the ever deliver to my home is junk. It's 2026.
Canadian Tire has been providing free bird cage liners to Canadians for decades! You want them to stop, in this economy?
If you put a no flyers note on your mailbox they will respect it 90% of the time
The only real mail thats addressed to me and also isnt some sort of ad like my credit card company trying to give me a balance transfer promo is like once every few months.
I dont check my box often unless im expecting something and its often full of junk.
I ain't spending even more effort to deal with a community box far away, so they're gonna be shoving shit in there with no room to keep shoving.
Put a sign in your mailbox saying "No Neighbourhood Mail Please" or "No Flyers Please" and you'll stop getting most junk. You'll still get some government stuff like bylaw announcements from the municipality or occasional notices from your MP or MLA, but it will cut out most of it.
I don't get regular flyers from Canada Post I already stopped that, but I'm getting things like pamphlets from Rona being sent to previous tenants, so it's got a person addressed on it.
Edit: and there's like 5 or 6 names of people's stuff like this that keeps showing up.
Ah, that one's tougher. Most of the time the sender isn't paying for return service. For most advertising like that, anyway.
You can look at the postage on the top right... If it says "Personalized Mail" then it won't be returned unless it says that it will underneath. "Postage Paid" or "Letter Mail," or that extra note under "Personalized Mail" that says it will be returned (I forget the exact wording, but it's obvious when it's there), you can just draw a line through the name and address and leave it for the letter carrier or put it in a red box.
It's still up to the sender to stop wasting their money, though.
Ive been trying the cross out / return to sender then putting in the red boxes, but didnt know that about the stamp and if it was even paid for or not. That probably explains why it continues.
Oh, and most of the mail i get is for past people who lived here even though i keep doing return to sender on their shit.
April 1 Again?
What do you mean "planning" to. They've refused to deliver packages for nearly a decade at this point. Oh sure, they'll say they'll deliver, but they never do, just a note telling you to go do their job for them. Literally the only delivery company that has this issue with my place.
Complain to them. Seriously. Sometimes there's a reason you're not aware of, but if your carrier is being a lazy shit, complain.
I have. CP's response was the absolutely absurd "we do not require couriers to deliver packages provided to them for delivery." My flabbers were legitimately ghasted at that response, and is when I completely gave up on them ever becoming a legitimate or remotely reliable delivery service.
Honestly, to this very day, I still struggle to wrap my head around the idea of a business that, as a matter of policy, do not require their employees to do the work they hired them to do.
Agreed, Canada post is an essential service, and they super suck at delivering packages.