Letter to Moya Greene - Re: Moratorium on Post Office Closures

Moya Greene
President
Canada Post Corporation
2701 Riverside Drive
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0B1

Dear Ms. Greene:

Re: Moratorium on Post Office Closures

I must say I am very disappointed by your response to my latest letter requesting a list of post offices covered by the moratorium and detailed information on the corporation's process for closing offices on the list. Your letter completely ignores my request for a list and provides scant information with regard to process.

If the moratorium is to mean anything, people need to understand what post offices are covered and what post offices are not covered. They also need to understand how the corporation goes about making a decision to close a post office covered by the moratorium (For additional information on these problems, please see the attached letter to the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates).

Without a list or process, the moratorium is meaningless.

As you know, the union has been trying to obtain the list of post offices covered by the moratorium and detailed information on the process since June of 2006. As you also know from my last letter, Minister Cannon's office recently informed the union that you are "in a better position to provide such a list." I am hoping that you will provide the information I am seeking. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Yours truly,

Deborah Bourque
National President

Encl.

c. c.

National Executive Committee, CUPW
Regional Executive Committees, CUPW
National Union Representatives, CUPW
Regional Union Representatives, CUPW
Specialists, CUPW
CUPW locals
Federation of Canadian Municipalities
Members, Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates Members, Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities
Stephen Harper, Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada
Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities
Gilles Duceppe, Leader, Bloc Quebecois
Mario Laframboise, MP
Jack Layton, Leader, New Democratic Party
Paul Dewar, MP
Stéphane Dion, Leader, Liberal Party
John McKay, MP