In my neighborhood, I often see parcel delivery trucks from 5 different transport companies wasting energy to drive to the same homes on the same day.
This is unregulated capitalism.
Then comes trash day, and 1 company arrives with 1 garbage truck and empties all the trash cans in 1 go.
This is regulated capitalism.
The municipality decided only 1 company could win the garbage truck service job. They offer up the job every couple of years, 1 company wins, and we all save CO2 emissions.
All around the world, postal services are successfully reinventing themselves to better meet the needs of their citizens in the 21st century. What if we told you that postal workers have a plan to fight climate change and deliver vital new services to every corner of the country? Elder check-ins, low-fee postal banking, high-speed internet, and climate-friendly delivery with a fleet of electric vehicles. Welcome to the postal service of the future.
@randahl Scandavian NordPost offers pickup lockers at its service points.
Last Mile to service point would work for many
Alas CanadaPost has privatized in-person postal services to ShoppersDrugMart, owned by grocery giant Loblaws
@pinhman my local "post office" is at Jean Coutu, which is not the same oligarch.
Must be an Ontario thing.
@hub In SK & BC its ShoppersDrug Mart,
In Saskatoon in the old downtown central post office building that no longer does anything postal,
the old staff bassment cafeteria has been turned into a wonderful live music performance space. Run by Saskatoon's Jazz Society
@pinhman they closed the main Vancouver post office (the one where you could get service in French — didn't ask they just recognised the French accent) and when I had a PO Box it was at a dépanneur in Yaletown
tl;dr not exclusive to Weston.
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Hubert Figuière