"Earning" My Carbon Tax

Okay, it may have been difficult--let alone expensive--for Canada Post to provide the same keyed locks that residents already possess when CP switched the old group mailboxes to the new fancy-schmancy style.

But really, just think of how inconvenient it is/was for people from 38 residences (in just this one area, one grouping of boxes) to hoof it in to Canada Post downtown to pick up new keys.

So imagine thousands of people making individual car trips--with supporting parking coins for the meters--to pick up their new keys.

Inconvenient indeed!

But perhaps the "improved security features" will pay off, with fewer attempts to tamper with mailboxes in unlit and infrequently travelled rural areas.

"Too bad the Morning Star box was recently vandalized--and now removed entirely," Kia would've said.

Just think of all those inconvenient new, gas-guzzling trips:

1.  since the blue bag recycling program ended--with Mini-Material B.C. taking fewer recyclables than their predecessors--we hoof it into town to drop-off centres where we can spend 20 minutes placing recyclables into one or two of the myriad labelled containers.  If MMBC's managing director, Mr. Langdon, lived in this community, I would be one of many people who would happily line up at the curb to place the "unrecyclables" on his lawn!

2.  since the Morning Star box is gone at this location, we hoof it into town to pick up a newspaper three times a week, if the box isn't replaced.

3.  since the group mailbox changed, we all made a one-time trip into the Post Office to pick up new keys.

We're getting mileage out of our carbon taxes.

Yessirreebob.

The bureaucratic way...