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Kanata resident Ruth Hurst had to ask for help to open her mailbox on the first day that Canada Post stopped home delivery.
The wheelchair-bound woman, who suffered serious burns and cannot open her hands, isn’t able to reach her mailbox, which is second from the top of the new community mailbox.
Hurst said she has asked Canada Post to change her mailbox to a lower one, but staff said they can’t. Instead, Hurst can fill out forms about her medical history and apply to have her mail delivered to her door once a week.
“Anybody that is physically challenged is going to find these difficult,” Hurst said.
On Monday, Hurst peered out the front window of her home until she saw her neighbour, Nick Mayew, at the community mailbox on Rothesay Drive.
She rushed across the street with her two dogs in tow to ask for help.
“Such an ordeal,” Hurst said.
Mayew had just finished checking the mail for himself and his neighbour, a woman in her 80s who recently had hip surgery.
Nick Mayhew checks his mailbox during the first day of delivery to community mailboxes in Kanata.
Mayew said he bought his home more than 30 years ago on Rothesay Drive because the area had home mail delivery.
“It’s not going to kill anybody, but it’s going to be difficult,” he said.
Last February, Canada Post announced Kanata would be among the first of 11 communities to lose their home delivery and receive community mailboxes.
The move was met with opposition by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, who plan to file a Federal Court challenge of the decision to end home delivery. The union calls it a human rights violation.
Paul Cavalluzzo, a Toronto lawyer representing the union, said he will also consider seeking an injunction to pause the transition from home delivery to community mailboxes until the court reviews the Canada Post decision.
Canada Post said in a statement its was confident its plan would withstand any legal scrutiny.
“Canada Post remains committed to ensuring the right approach is taken and no one is left behind,” Canada Post wrote in a statement. “All Canadians must have access to the postal service.”
mhurley@ottawacitizen.com
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The wheelchair-bound woman, who suffered serious burns and cannot open her hands, isn’t able to reach her mailbox, which is second from the top of the new community mailbox.
Hurst said she has asked Canada Post to change her mailbox to a lower one, but staff said they can’t. Instead, Hurst can fill out forms about her medical history and apply to have her mail delivered to her door once a week.
“Anybody that is physically challenged is going to find these difficult,” Hurst said.
On Monday, Hurst peered out the front window of her home until she saw her neighbour, Nick Mayew, at the community mailbox on Rothesay Drive.
She rushed across the street with her two dogs in tow to ask for help.
“Such an ordeal,” Hurst said.
Mayew had just finished checking the mail for himself and his neighbour, a woman in her 80s who recently had hip surgery.
Nick Mayhew checks his mailbox during the first day of delivery to community mailboxes in Kanata.
Mayew said he bought his home more than 30 years ago on Rothesay Drive because the area had home mail delivery.
“It’s not going to kill anybody, but it’s going to be difficult,” he said.
Last February, Canada Post announced Kanata would be among the first of 11 communities to lose their home delivery and receive community mailboxes.
The move was met with opposition by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, who plan to file a Federal Court challenge of the decision to end home delivery. The union calls it a human rights violation.
Paul Cavalluzzo, a Toronto lawyer representing the union, said he will also consider seeking an injunction to pause the transition from home delivery to community mailboxes until the court reviews the Canada Post decision.
Canada Post said in a statement its was confident its plan would withstand any legal scrutiny.
“Canada Post remains committed to ensuring the right approach is taken and no one is left behind,” Canada Post wrote in a statement. “All Canadians must have access to the postal service.”
mhurley@ottawacitizen.com
Twitter.com/meghan_hurley
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