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Friday, March 31, 2017

Help us press to Restore Door-to-Door!

DO YOU WANT TO HELP GET HOME MAIL DELIVERY BACK?
Come help us distribute postcards and info letters to the neighbourhoods which were targeted for cuts to door-to-door service in 2015. In opposition and during the election, the Liberals opposed these service cuts -- which were implemented in London AFTER they were elected in November 2015! Now they are in office, PM Trudeau and Minister Foote need reminding that a Parliamentary committee has recommended restoring Door-to-Door mail delivery in areas where this service was cut .

Join us Saturday from 2 pm to help Restore door-to-door! We will also have on hand stickers to "decorate" Self-Serve Mailboxes with the message above, calling on Trudeau to keep his promise!

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.

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!

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.

See: https://www.facebook.com/events/1478347379133253/

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

Friday, August 28, 2015

Take action to help save Door-to-Door mail in London!

Dear supporter of Door-to-Door mail delivery,
Thank you for signing a petition, a letter, or a contact list in support of continuing Door-to-Door mail service. And thank you for opposing the imposition of super-mailboxes in our neighbourhoods. Londoners for Door-to-Door is a volunteer community group that recently delivered almost 2900 signatures of support to London's City Hall , and we hope to count on your support again to make sure your message is heard:
The Strategic Priorities and Policy Committee meets at City Hall on Monday August 31, 4:00pm. Canada Post is once again refusing to send a representative to meet our city councillors, but we want to ensure that our community viewpoints are heard. Here is what you can do to help:

Contact your city councillor and the Mayor (find their contact info here). Ask them to:
- STOP THE INSTALLATIONS! - support a moratorium on the installation of super-mailboxes until after the October election and proper community consultation.
- Make a statement to Canada Post that London's City Council opposes the cuts to door to door mail service.
- Support efforts being taken by Hamilton and Montreal to defend their communities' rights against Canada Post in court.
Join us at City Hall on Monday August 31, from 4pm in the Gallery, 3rd floor. Facebook users can join, share & re-post this event page. The more presence we have, the better!
Visit the new website, Friends of Public Services. Sign their petition, share the website, and spread the Facebook page far and wide!
- This new grass-roots organization is setting its sights on saving Door-to-Door as its first campaign!
Save the date Sept. 6, when the Canadian Union of Postal Workers'cross-Canada save Door-to-Door Caravan rolls into London!
- We will have a day full of activities and actions to welcome our guests, ending with a street party on Talavera Crescent, the site of our ongoing community presence against self-serve mailboxes!
And remember: there is still time to request changes in proposed locations of self-serve mailboxes in your area. See contact and other information here.

Londoners for Door to Door
http://4door2door.nationbuilder.com/

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You can also keep up with Londoners for Door to Door on Twitter.

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Londoners for Door to Door delivers 2867 support signatures to City Council

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 11, 2015. 11 am. London City Hall.

Londoners for Door to Door delivers 2867 support signatures to City Council

Canada Post has been pushing ahead with installation of Self Serve Mail Boxes in several London neighbourhoods, despite a unanimous request from London City Council last month, to stop work until the Crown Corporation comes back to report on community consultations, as they promised to do in March.

Today, City Council hears from constituents about the importance of continuing this valuable and profitable public service. After months of door-to-door canvassing and signature collecting at community events, Londoners For Door to Door delivered petitions and letters to the City Clerk, signed by the many London residents who want this service to be maintained, not just for themselves but for their parents, grandparents, neighbours and friends.

"We have heard loudly and clearly from community members that nobody wants Canada Post to impose these Self Serve Mailboxes in our neighbourhoods. Instead, we want to protect jobs and maintain a public service that makes money for Canadians and provides door-to-door mail delivery.” says Wendy Goldsmith. “It is unprecedented for a G8 country to propose this kind of mail service cut, all thanks to the Harper Conservatives and their drive for austerity."

Londoners For Door To Door continues to be deeply concerned about the lack of community consultation and the lies that appear to flow freely from the mouths of Canada Post spokespeople. We strongly believe that this is not a done deal, and that municipalities have an important role to play in regulating what a Crown Corporation can do in our neighbourhoods. "Londoners have not got clear answers from Canada Post on this issue" adds David Heap "but they do have a clear choice in October's federal election: we can oppose the Harper government's imposition of these service cuts, and support the official opposition which is calling for service to be restored and even extended."

Ward 10 Councillor Virginia Ridley was also present when the petitions were received by the City Clerk's office. The issue is due to come up at the next Strategic Priorities and Policy Committee on August 31.

Londoners can still request changes to proposed mailbox locations, see contact information posted here.

We encourage all London residents to call and email their city councillors to urge Canada Post to cease and desist with these actions which clearly violate the public will.

For more information contact:

David Heap 519 859 3579

Wendy Goldsmith 519 281 3978

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Community Responds with Art Against Mailboxes as Canada Post Ignores City Council

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 29, 2015.

Community Responds with Art Against Mailboxes as Canada Post Ignores City Council

Garden installations ‘All that has value’ by internationally renowned artist Ron Benner

London City Council has taken a position against the implementation of so-called Community Mail Boxes in our community. Passed 13-0 by Council Tuesday evening, the resolution calls on Canada Post " to delay further implementation of Community Mailboxes in the City of London" until requests for information regarding public consultation have been met, as well as other conditions.

From one of Ron Benner's art garden installations (Halifax, 2013)

Despite this request from our city government, Canada Post continues to install concrete pads in neighbourhoods in London in preparation for the installation of Self Serve Mail Boxes (SSMBs). Londoners are naturally resisting these unwanted incursions into our communities. Neighbourhood actions are springing up around the city. From block parties (like the one on Talavera Crescent that began on Tuesday and continues today) to community gardens and boulevard beautification projects, Londoners are protecting community spaces from this steam-rollering Crown Corporation and its cuts to vital services.

Londoner Ron Benner, an internationally renowned visual artist and activist is participating in this community initiative by creating garden-art installations at various sites around London. The title of his work ‘All that has value’ recalls a Mexican artist who stated : "All that has value was then counted as nothing” after the conquest of Mexico City in 1519.

The artists’ gardens (4x6 feet and 4x8 feet) include plants native to the Americas which is part of his continuing research and work into First Nations’ farming practices and plants that are significant to today’s economy and food culture around the world. Benner sees this intervention of the garden onto the site of the concrete pads intended for the postal boxes as part of our community’s “Save door-to door” (londoners4door2door.blogspot.ca) campaign to maintain mail delivery. ‘These gardens are in solidarity with Canadian postal workers as well as our community’s concerns for safe, secure mail delivery service in our neighbourhoods,’ comments Benner.

The first art garden installation will occur Wednesday July 29 starting at 7 :30 pm, and the second on early Thursday morning, July 30. Ronner Benner will be on hand for comment at both locations.

For locations and other details contact:
Wendy Goldsmith wendygoldsmith21@gmail.com 519 281 3978

David Heap david.heap@gmail.com 519 859 3579

More info at: londoners4door2door.blogspot.ca

Ron Benner is a visual artist and activist based in London, Ontario. His photographic/garden Installations As the Crow Flies can be viewed at Museum London overlooking the Thames River (2005-on-going) and Cuitlacoche (2012- on-going) at Hart House, University of Toronto. His works are in numerous public collections. He has exhibited across Canada, and internationally, most recently in China, 2014.

Londoners for Door to Door

people4door2door@gmail.com londoners4door2door.blogspot.ca Twitter: @PPL4Door2Door

Sunday, July 26, 2015

your support for Door to Door mail is needed NOW !

Dear Door to Door supporter,

Our City Council will be considering the whole Canada Post issue on Monday July 27 (in Committee, starting 4 pm) and Tuesday July 28 (full Council, starting 4 pm). This is your chance to help by calling / e-mailing Councillors and the Mayor asking them to support:

a moratorium (halt) to all installation of new mailbox in London, until at least after the upcoming federal election in October, and
a full release of all information from City staff about changes made to proposed locations for mailbox installation.

You can find contact information for the Mayor and all the councillors here: http://www.london.ca/city-hall/city-council/Documents/Council-Contact-List.pdf *

Please e-mail and/or call as soon as you can, on Monday if possible, and keep calling and e-mailing through Tuesday July 28 as well.

In the last few days our campaign has drawn attention to Canada Post's dishonesty. Despite their agreement in March to report back to our City Council prior to the installation of Self Serve Mail Boxes, Canada Post has instructed contractors to begin installing concrete pads for new SSMBs.

By simply stopping one pad from being installed for a couple of days, we helped focus attention on this issue. Some City Councillors are saying that Canada Post misled Londoners.

With your help, we can do more in the coming days and weeks. If you can give a few hours of your time, please contact us at people4door2door@gmail.com.

Together we can help save Door to Door mail delivery!

Londoners for Door to Door

people4door2door@gmail.com londoners4door2door.blogspot.ca Twitter: @PPL4Door2Door