To whom it may concern at Canada Post:
On May 6, the patrons of the Canim Lake Post Office were informed that as of May 31, the post office at the Canim lake Store would be closed and the addresses shifted to outdoor boxes on the parking lot of the Canim Lake Band administration office.
I wish to strongly protest this decision and I urge you to take action on behalf of the more than 200 patrons who will be adversely affected by this decision.
For myself, as a disabled person - I lost the lower half of my left leg four years ago - having to get my mail in what I consider to be a dangerous location for me in the winter months, is a major obstacle.
Secondly, the parking lot is not patrolled at night and the boxes will not be secure from theft or vandalism as they are now.
People who need to pick up their mail on a regular basis will now have to drive an additional eight kilometres or more to pick it up, which is an especially awkward inconvenience to people (and there are several of them) whose mail may be time and temperature delivery sensitive.
Canim Lake Post Office has been in existence on the store property or nearby, for the better part of a century and has always been well used.
I believe the first outlet was established sometime in the 1930s and perhaps in the 1920s. My mother, Marion Kellett, served as an assistant postmaster from 1945 to 1954, and as postmaster from 1954 to her retirement in 1975.
Please ask Canada Post to reconsider their decision. I would further ask to you to have the corporation make public its reasons for this decision.
Gordon Kellett
Canim Lake
