Teh One Who Knocks
08-20-2013, 11:32 AM
DAVID LARKINS | QMI AGENCY
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WINNIPEG -- Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays the carrier from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
But if your stairs are two inches too high, forget about it.
That's what Peter Marino, 75, was told last week when his Canada Post carrier filed a complaint that one of the front steps to the Marino home was too high.
A Canada Post inspector, unbeknownst to Marino and his wife Phyllis, came to the home and measured the stair and found that it was 14 inches -- two inches more than what Canada Post deems accessible.
Marino said the carrier servicing their home is new to the area and he fails to see how it's suddenly an issue after living in the home without a problem for 32 years.
"This guy comes along and he can't do his job? Then he shouldn't be delivering mail," Marino said. "I get frustrated, yes. Of course you get mad.
"You've lived all your life here and everything is normal and all of a sudden this guy comes out of nowhere and you start changing the rules. It's terrible."
The result? Marino stopped getting his mail. What's more, he wasn't even told his mail was going undelivered until he made a trip on his own to a depot after three days of not getting anything in his mailbox.
"They suspended our mail for two, three days without telling us, so this is not justice," Marino said. "Then they say I'm wrong on everything."
Marino did move his mailbox to the side of his house, which should have aided the carrier while being a nuisance for the elderly couple. Peter Marino has had knee surgery and a bypass.
But when Marino told the carrier he no longer wanted him crossing his lawn, the carrier phoned police and said Marino physically threatened him.
"He said, 'I'm phoning the police,' and I said 'Phone who you want, I don't care'," Marino said. "He said I threatened him with a baseball bat. I don't even own a baseball bat. I never said that."
Winnipeg police confirmed they were looking into an incident but declined to go into detail. A Canada Post spokesman in Ottawa said carriers' safety is always the foremost concern.
Marino was told he would have to apologize to Canada Post.
They might not want to hold their breath waiting for that.
"I've been receiving my mail normally for 32 years, why should I apologize for anything?" he said. "They should apologize to me that they made me move my mailbox because they put a new mailman there."
http://i.imgur.com/AyesHVo.jpg
WINNIPEG -- Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays the carrier from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
But if your stairs are two inches too high, forget about it.
That's what Peter Marino, 75, was told last week when his Canada Post carrier filed a complaint that one of the front steps to the Marino home was too high.
A Canada Post inspector, unbeknownst to Marino and his wife Phyllis, came to the home and measured the stair and found that it was 14 inches -- two inches more than what Canada Post deems accessible.
Marino said the carrier servicing their home is new to the area and he fails to see how it's suddenly an issue after living in the home without a problem for 32 years.
"This guy comes along and he can't do his job? Then he shouldn't be delivering mail," Marino said. "I get frustrated, yes. Of course you get mad.
"You've lived all your life here and everything is normal and all of a sudden this guy comes out of nowhere and you start changing the rules. It's terrible."
The result? Marino stopped getting his mail. What's more, he wasn't even told his mail was going undelivered until he made a trip on his own to a depot after three days of not getting anything in his mailbox.
"They suspended our mail for two, three days without telling us, so this is not justice," Marino said. "Then they say I'm wrong on everything."
Marino did move his mailbox to the side of his house, which should have aided the carrier while being a nuisance for the elderly couple. Peter Marino has had knee surgery and a bypass.
But when Marino told the carrier he no longer wanted him crossing his lawn, the carrier phoned police and said Marino physically threatened him.
"He said, 'I'm phoning the police,' and I said 'Phone who you want, I don't care'," Marino said. "He said I threatened him with a baseball bat. I don't even own a baseball bat. I never said that."
Winnipeg police confirmed they were looking into an incident but declined to go into detail. A Canada Post spokesman in Ottawa said carriers' safety is always the foremost concern.
Marino was told he would have to apologize to Canada Post.
They might not want to hold their breath waiting for that.
"I've been receiving my mail normally for 32 years, why should I apologize for anything?" he said. "They should apologize to me that they made me move my mailbox because they put a new mailman there."