Canada Post and RHD vehicles

[patriceboivin]

Dates back to December 2013 but I just found this on the 'net:
http://o.canada.com/news/canada-post-ai ... -delivery/

"OTTAWA — Less than two weeks after Canada Post announced it would end door-to-door delivery for urban Canadians, the Crown corporation is looking into standardizing rural mailboxes and adopting widespread use of reaching devices and right-hand drive vehicles to cut costs of rural mail delivery.

The belt tightening proposals were outlined Friday in the Canada Gazette, the government’s official publication with information on laws and government appointments.

Canada Post says some of its 4,500 rural and suburban mail carriers have complained of “ergonomic concerns” related to reaching across their vehicles to deposit mail out their passenger-side windows into rural mailboxes. The corporation notes that these “awkward movements” increase risk of repetitive strain injuries and generate additional expense for the corporation due to costs associated with injury on duty, replacement workers and paying additional people to ride in delivery vehicles and assist with depositing mail."

And not sure I understand this, but looks like CUPW people with RHD vehicles get a deduction? http://www.cupw.ca/1/4/5/8/4/index1.shtml

[Mr. Flibble]

Just like all the postal vehicles here in the US.

Hopefully Canada Post's workers don't go postal.

[CREGAN]

There is an older lady that delivers the mail in a small town near where I live in a pajero. I always wave but I think she thinks I'm crazy.

Craig