Canada Post is running a glitzy TV advertisement that seems to promise front door delivery of every item purchased from Internet businesses. This puzzled me a little. I am a faithful customer of Canada Post but, neither as a business nor a person, are parcels picked up from or delivered to my door. I have since learned this premium service is available only to businesses. Without doubt, this glitch in the current advertising blitz will be remedied quickly. Any corporate entity with over 20 vice-presidents must be a powerhouse that can correct its mistakes faster than it can make them.
I have a deep interest in the adventures of Canada Post since I once worked for the company. I began my long term of service in the Post Office Department, that arm of government that had a big heart full of a burning desire to be of service to each and every customer. It was also thrifty. It taught its employees the virtue of frugality by having parsimonious salary schedules. It taught them the virtue of hard work by disregarding public holidays and overtime hours. In every emergency and at any time of the day or night, the loyal elves were expected to work without complaint. The 11th commandment was "the mail must go through."
Many changes have occurred since the Post Office Department became Canada Post. Many more have occurred since I became an ex-employee. Not all of them have pleased the customers. The planned discontinuance of door-to-door delivery has not received an enthusiastic welcome. Senior citizens and the people and organizations who represent them are yapping tirelessly about the cruelty of making old codgers and biddies venture out, five days out of seven, to clear the group mail boxes. The complainers don't understand. They have no appreciation of the deep wisdom of a corporation that has more than 20 vice-presidents.
I have no doubt that Canada Post, in consultation with bureaucrats in the federal health system, is instituting a policy that will get old people fresh air and exercise from Monday to Friday of every week. It will be good for them.
I have only one more observation to offer. There are only five mail days, but body functions go on for seven. If, by government decree, toilets were removed from senior citizen's abodes and old-fashioned outhouses constructed instead, the old ones would benefit from two more days of healthy outdoor exercise. I think it might also be a good idea to build outhouses to be used by the vice-presidents of Canada Post.
As a sagacious and loyal patriot I offer, without hope of recompense, the Wardill Outhouse Initiative to anyone in government who can make use of it.
