Corner Brook resident weighs in on the lack of timely mail delivery in the city

City resident Sonya Laing says her mail is being delivered long after she would normally have expected it.

A Corner Brook resident is weighing in on a story BayFM carried last week about a rash of complaints being received at city hall dealing with mail delivery. Mayor Jim Parsons says staff had spoken to Canada Post about it and that carriers had issues with parking their new vans on streets and roads. 

City resident Sonya Laing says her mail is being delivered long after she would normally have expected it. This she based on when she would get them previously or based on the post mark, and mail no longer trickles in but arrives 5 - 6 - 9 pieces at a time after long gaps of no mail. 

Laing says this has been going on since before Canada Post went on strike late last fall. She has a picture of a piece of important mail postmarked February 12 from St. Johns that arrived in Corner Brook on February 38. Laing says it was 3-4 weeks before the Canada Post strike that officially started November 15 when she stopped getting mail. The lack of timely mail delivery has affected her ability to properly budget as she is budgeting for herself and elderly mother. 

Laing says banks, the utilities, the phone company are paying money to get mail to customers who choose that billing method and there used to be service standards that seem to have gone out the window. She suspects the issue is ongoing job action at the facility that Canada Post management does not want to acknowledge.  

BayFM News has reached out to Canada Post for an interview and they replied by saying they “are looking into this and will be in touch when they have more information to share.”