Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Sign our NEW petition to stop the cuts to door-to-door



Dear Londoners, 

Thank you for your support of our efforts to save door-to-door mail delivery in London.

Many of you have already signed our petition asking the City of London’s elected officials to oppose the cuts to door-to-door delivery, and on August 11 2015 and thanks to you we delivered nearly 2900 signatures to London City Hall. We need your support still.

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Because of nationwide opposition, concerned Canadians like you have made saving door-to-door delivery a 2015 federal election issue, and all five major parties have taken a position.

On Election Day, please vote to support our public postal service. 

Following creative efforts to express community opposition to Canada Post's imposed mailboxes including garden installations by local artist Ron Benner, the corporation has delayed its date for community mailboxes to “go live” in London. 

Now it’s time to bring our message to our federal candidates in London.

Canada Post belongs to all of us, and it is accountable to our federal government. Please sign our new petition and add your voice to the growing opposition to the Conservatives' cuts to our public postal service.
Please share this message widely with your friends, family and co-workers. Let’s tell MPs Ed Holder and Susan Truppe and all of our local federal candidates: stop the cuts!
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Londoners for Door to Door
http://www.4door2door.ca/

Friday, September 4, 2015

More guerrilla gardening: Grassroots resistance against #CanadaPost imposing group #Mailboxes in #LndOnt

A community art installation in London, Ontario, on another site of a proposed group mailbox:
  

FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS

Please share this with your school age children

Roberta Cory is a London artist who makes assemblages

out of repurposed objects. They always have a hidden

message for the viewer to figure out. Every choice

of shape, colour, or object and its position is

a combination of engineering (gravity, wind, etc.) and

Can you figure out why morning glories were selected for the flowers?

Why is the Harper image at the top of the teepee?

is also a design decision.

Why is it a teepee design?

Why is he painted on a weather vane?

Canada Post did not ask home owners and other residents if they wanted

was an example of bullying. This public artwork is meant to

occupy the pad of the Canada Post box until at least October 19.

Please keep an eye out when you are home and phone your neighbours

if Canada Post tries to install their box. Together we are strong.

to discontinue door to door delivery of mail. They only

asked where people wanted their box. We think this

was an example of bullying. This public artwork is meant to

occupy the pad of the Canada Post box until at least October 19.

Please keep an eye out when you are home and phone your neighbours


if Canada Post tries to install their box. Together we are strong.

Thank you.

cross-country caravan tour to STOP THE POSTAL CUTS arrives in London!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday September 4


The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) caravan, on a cross-Canada tour to stop the cuts to postal service, will be in London Friday September 4 through Sunday September 6. Join us to celebrate how communities are resisting Canada Post cuts to service and imposition of self-serve mailboxes in our neighbourhoods.

Schedule of Events (times subject to change)
Saturday September 5: different locations around London, call for details.
Sunday September 6
10:00 am- 11:00 meet at Under the Volcano (30 Wharncliffe Rd, N)
11:00 am- 1:30 pm Community activities, garden tours, lobbying. (route provided on site)
1:45 Meet at City Hall, 
2:00 practice HARPERMAN song“Harperman, it's time for you to go!” at City Hall, 
2:30 gather outside Canada Post Collection and Delivery Plant, 951 Highbury Ave.,
to meet with CUPW workers and share information.
3:30 Resume community tour.
4:00 "BLOCK THE BOX PARTY"~ Block Party at the home of the longest mailbox site 'occupation' in London ! Talavera Court.
This caravan has been touring across Canada, meeting people on their doorsteps, at their workplaces and in their communities. They are hearing OVERWHELMINGLY that people want Harper's Conservatives to STOP THE CUTS!


For more information contact 
Patti Dalton             519 494 3901
Wendy Goldsmith   519 281 3978
David Heap             519 859 3579