A day after Canada Post announced a halt to the community mailbox rollout, confusion and frustration are still being felt by some residents.
It seems the issue is far from over.
The mailbox rollout is a hot button issue. It was in the spotlight during the federal election and despite a halt order Monday, work continues in some areas of the city.
There have been several accounts over the past few days of mailboxes appearing without notice.
"This is ridiculous,” said Jerry Hawryluk.
He isn't against the super boxes in general, but the decision to put one near the corner of Palmtree Avenue and Riverside Drive in Oakridge has him upset.
Hawryluk says he didn’t get any warning it would be placed there despite communicating with Canada Post.
“I've been dealing with these people for eight weeks and then all of a sudden…."
David Heap has been fighting this rollout since January.
"There's uninstalled pads. There's people who've received keys with no boxes. There's people with boxes and no keys. There's people with keys that don't work. So this supposedly complete conversion is a mess," he said.
It's an issue that was addressed during the federal election campaign and MP-designate for London West, Kate Young, says the moratorium put in place by Canada Post is a great first step. But she says a nationwide conversation needs to take place.
"We really want to make sure we have a debate across Canada about what people want. I know that some people have no problems with community mailboxes and other people really don't want them,” she said.
"What Canadians need is a full review with a public input process to talk about the services, the kind of postal services we want and need and how we want to pay for them,” Heap said.
Canada Post says if a mailbox was planned for your neighbourhood in October, the work will continue. The corporation will also look for direction from the newly-elected Liberal government as to next steps.
