{"id":12779,"date":"2015-10-22T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=12779"},"modified":"2015-10-23T07:06:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T12:06:43","slug":"nalc-does-election-of-canadas-new-pm-end-cluster-box-conversion-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/10\/22\/nalc-does-election-of-canadas-new-pm-end-cluster-box-conversion-there\/","title":{"rendered":"NALC: Does election of Canada\u2019s new PM end cluster-box conversion there?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NALC News &#8211; 10\/21\/15 &#8211; Does the election of Canada\u2019s new prime minister mean the end of cluster-box conversion there?<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cSave the Post Office\u201d blog analyzes what Monday\u2019s election outcome in Canada might mean for the future of Canada Post\u2019s plans to end door-delivery of mail there.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the platform of incoming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the leader of Canada\u2019s Liberal Party, specifically addressed the conversion plans:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will stop the [outgoing Prime Minister Stephen] Harper Conservatives\u2019 plan to end door-to-door mail delivery in Canada. We will begin a new review of Canada Post to ensure that the Crown Corporation is fulfilling its public mandate to provide high-quality service at a reasonable cost to Canadians \u2014 urban, suburban, and rural. We disagree strongly with the Conservative decision to ask Canadians to pay more for a reduced quality of service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanadians have not been happy about the conversions,\u201d Save the Post Office notes, \u201cand the issue probably played a role in the election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sen. Tom Carper\u2019s (D-DE) iPost bill, S. 2051, includes language encouraging the conversion of door delivery access points to cluster or curbside delivery points for residential and business customers, on a voluntary basis requiring customer consent. NALC has adamantly opposed inclusion of this language and will fight for its removal; however, we are pleased that the mandatory conversion of all business door delivery to curb or cluster box delivery that was included in Carper\u2019s last postal bill was dropped from this one. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nalc.org\/news\/nalc-updates\/carper-introduces-ipost-act-updated\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about iPost here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cupw.ca\/en\/campaign\/save-canada-post\/resources\/cupw-calls-canada-post-stop-defeated-conservatives%E2%80%99-delivery\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read a statement by Canadian Union of Postal Workers President Mike Palecek.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.savethepostoffice.com\/did-yesterdays-election-just-kill-mass-conversion-cluster-boxes-canada\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read more at Save the Post Office.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/3-NALC-News-Small4.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6526\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/3-NALC-News-Small4.gif\" alt=\"3-NALC News Small\" width=\"254\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NALC News &#8211; 10\/21\/15 &#8211; Does the election of Canada\u2019s new prime minister mean the end of cluster-box conversion there? The \u201cSave the Post Office\u201d blog analyzes what Monday\u2019s election outcome in Canada might mean for the future of Canada Post\u2019s plans to end door-delivery of mail there. Part of the platform of incoming Prime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-nalc-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12790,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779\/revisions\/12790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}