I wish I had a Jack Hammer too!

[walkonby]

I am late hearing this story but I got a kick out of it ( secretly I want to do just what he did! ) The mayor of Montreal does NOT like CP coming in with their CMB sites, so he destroyed the concrete slab they had put in!!

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Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre has taken a jackhammer to the concrete slab foundation of a community mailbox in l'Anse-à-l'Orme nature park.

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The mayor was protesting what he says is a lack of consultation with the city as Canada Post moves from door-to-door service to community mailboxes.
Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre used a jackhammer to break the base of a Canada Post community mailbox. (CBC)

Throughout the day, Coderre had expressed his disappointment with the Crown corporation via a news conference, angry tweets, and finally, destroying the concrete slab itself.
"It's a matter of fact that they're doing what they want, and then they try and piss in your ears and say, 'Oh don't worry, we are wishing to collaborate,' but at the end of the day, baloney, it's not working," he said.
Earlier in the day, Coderre said it was "totally disgraceful" that the Crown corporation moved to erect community boxes in Parc l'Anse-à-l'Orme without any authorization from the municipality.
Flanked by Westmount Mayor Peter Trent, Southwest borough Mayor Benoit Dorais, Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension Mayor Anie Samson and Pierrefonds-Roxboro Mayor Jim Beis, Coderre condemned Canada Post for what he called a total absence of consultation.
He said Canada Post's brazen community-mailbox placements go against Montreal urban planning procedures, and he'll have none of it.
"I think it's wrong the way they're acting," Coderre said. "They said they were consulting. Hello? Anybody home? They're doing what they want, savagely, and they're arrogant."
After he took a jackhammer to the slab of concrete, he announced he'd be sending the cost of the damage to Canada Post.
Coderre tweeted Canada Post's response to him, accompanied by the hashtag #pathetic: The corporation said it was continuing to work with municipalities in order to find the best and safest locations for community mailboxes, and that it looks forward to his suggestions for box locations.
Denis Coderre hates everything about this concrete slab. (Mathieu Dion/Radio-Canada)

Boxes called a public nuisance

Dorais, the Southwest borough mayor, said existing community mailboxes on his territory have already presented a number of problems, among them vandalism, theft and messiness. He said a set of boxes in particular were left in a sorry state for a year before media reports prompted Canada Post to clean up.
Beis of Pierrefonds-Roxboro said box security was a major factor, with reports of some people's mail and parcels being stolen. ​

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Trent, the Westmount mayor, said he believes Canada Post is installing its new mailboxes on the outskirts of the Island first so it can gradually work its way into the core of the city, where there is more opposition to the end of door-to-door mail delivery.
"What I find most offensive about this whole business of Canada Post doing what it wants is that what we hear from the party in power is that it's a Crown corporation, there's nothing we can do," Trent said.
"Well it's time to lift the corporate veil and say, 'No, Canada Post is owned by us, the citizens, and the government represents us. And if we as citizens decide it's time to call a moratorium on this misguided policy, then Canada Post should listen.'"
The mayors are taking their fight against Canada Post to court, and have also asked to be part of a class-action suit against the Crown corporation as well.





http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montre...ayor-1.3189965

[anisa]

I wouldn't want to be the person who's house these boxes are placed in front of.

[Patty Smyth]

I love our mayor. He has more balls than the last one who hid most of his 10 years in office.

[Patty Smyth]

By the way I have a very large front property and this is my nightmare come true. I think if they started digging I would chain myself to my Blue spruce and call the mayor . He lives a few streets over from me

[walkonby]

I love our mayor. He has more balls than the last one who hid most of his 10 years in office.

By the way I have a very large front property and this is my nightmare come true. I think if they started digging I would chain myself to my Blue spruce and call the mayor . He lives a few streets over from me

Oh Patty! NO!!! I hope it NEVER comes to that! Listen....would/could it not lower the value of an owners home? It must! Honestly, even though I am no longer delivering mail, I was so engaged when I read what your Mayor did. This needs to go further, more action needs to take place to stop CP from forcing this on us all.

[anisa]

I had this type of mail delivery for about 10 years. Apparently my parents have recently been the victims of mail theft from their community box. They are not secure.

[Crochetlady]

We have never had door to door delivery. Our small post office was closed years ago so we had to drive 11 km to pick up our mail. Community boxes were a step up for us.

[lilo0003]

I think I love this man, no really I do. I live in Oakville. We were the 1st city to get these across all neighborhoods. There was no consultation and CPs planners are dumber than dirt. Please CP explain why I have a box across the street but that is not where my mail goes. Or my neighbors who have to walk by not 1 but 2 of these eyesores to get their mail. Then don't even get me started on the morons that park on my lawnb becuase they are too lazy to walk, we live on a no parking no curb street. DH and I have placed rocks across our lawn to save our grass and irrigation system. I am still fuming and it's been close to a year.
I will say the litter has not been an issue and I think everyone equally hates them so they are far more respectful about it then the areas that have always had the boxes. If I find the odd thing blowing about I just pick it up. I don't even care if you throw the junk in my blue box on recycling day.
Patty: let me know you you need me to come chain myself to that tree with you.

[lilo0003]

anisa: yikes on the mail theft. I don't go everyday unless I am expecting a rebate check. I may need to rethink that.

[walkonby]

I never experienced any of the CMB boxes I delivered to getting broken into, but then that was a while ago that I did that sort of delivery. @lilo0003 how perfectly " logical " that your neighbours have to pass 2 of them before they get to their own site. CP will always say they do their best when planning these out, but when you're on the receiving end of their gift it does not seem they put much effort into the process at all. I really dread them coming here.

[FallenPixels]

Someone in my city got one right in the middle of his driveway!

[anisa]

What the????

[walkonby]

Someone in my city got one right in the middle of his driveway!

FP....how can they do that? Isn't his driveway private property?

What the????

+1....honestly!!

[FallenPixels]

FP....how can they do that? Isn't his driveway private property?



+1....honestly!!

According to them, so many feet of the property is city land.
His new driveway was mapped out, dug etc but not concrete yet, I guess CP thought oh hey, he did half the work for us. Now his driveway needs to exit on a busy corner which is hardly safe

[walkonby]

They pulled a fast one on him. City land eh? What a crock. Poor guy.