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If you live in downtown Bradford, you probably share this pain: Your mailing address is a P.O. box at the post office.
This is because of a Canada Post policy, which states if you live within 500 metres of a post office, you don’t get home delivery and you must register a P.O. box instead (for free).
This may seem like it’s no big deal, but I’ve discovered in the last year that it is.
ServiceOntario would not let me update my address online because it doesn’t accept P.O. boxes, so I had to take my lease and P.O. box contract to the office in person.
It was exactly the same story with TD Canada Trust.
This morning, a Rogers technician could not come to install upgraded internet because I did not have a valid postal code associated with my physical address.
Ordering anything online is fraught with anxiety as I’m never sure if the delivery person will arrive. (Thank you, DHL, for my last delivery, which was stress-free.)
I don’t know whether to blame Canada Post for its P.O. box policy, or everyone else for theirs. In the meantime, I and other downtown Bradford residents will continue to struggle with this issue.
Lawrence Hammond
Bradford
