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.

4 comments:

  1. The mailbox at Riverside and Wonderland is inaccessible for pedestrians. When the winter arrives there will be a snow bank blocking access. There's no sidewalk on the South side of Riverside. This box will be accessed by motor vehicle. It is in the middle of an already overburdened intersection with major volume issues. What are these people thinking? London needs to move away from car culture not make planning decisions that will tie us into further dependence on the automobile. Paul Hubert the municipal representative for this ward doesn't have any answers. Canada post is red taping me all the way and now the thing is built. They just rammed this through. What a short sighted plan.
    I feel hoodwinked and bamboozled.

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  2. I don't do Facebook and these kinds of things and don't know how to convey this to someone. I simply wish to note that a set of community mailboxes has been installed a bit south of regent and William in London: an older neighborhood that I had not thought was being targeted as yet. The boxes look flimsy, they're ugly, and snow will have to be cleared by the city fropm the grass as well as sidewalks for people to access them.

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