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Postal workers dumbstruck by claim of ‘few complaints’ Knight is responding to recent articles about the difficulties customers and letter carriers have been Ryan Knight likes to take his dealing with since the conversion to nephew to hockey practice. community mailboxes began. But as a postal worker and presiKnight says there weren’t any relief dent of the local Canadian Union of workers brought in to help over the Postal Workers (CUPW), he’s been holidays. working so much overtime in the “We do have temporary employlast three and a half months that he ees, but they always have worked often just barely makes it or he is late at Canada Post because they have and has to get someone else to take failed to fill positions for years, so him to hockey. they have filled them with tempoKnight says the transition to com- rary employees who work all the munity mailboxes in Campbell time,” he said. “They were already River has not been a smooth one. working all the time before we On Sept. 21, the went live in Septemcommunity mailboxes ber, so these people THEY SAID went live in Campbell just worked more over IT: “We had River, and only about the holidays. At one lineups out 50 of the roughly 300 point, one temporary the door for boxes were actually employee was comat least six active, which meant ing to work before her weeks.” that two and a half – Ryan Knight, kids were awake and CUPW local coming home after of the letter carriers’ president they’d been put to bed. old routes were made into one route, which So there’s been a lot of still included a lot of door-to-door things that have been going on that delivery as part of the route, he said. are not conducive to any sort of fam“So basically since Sept. 21, they’ve ily life.” had to have two people do one route, In a letter to the editor, Monica and both people are working a lot of Judd, CUPW alternate union repovertime,” said Knight. “Personally, resentative and campaign co-ordiI’ve worked between 140 and 150 nator, thanked MP Rachel Blaney hours of overtime since Sept. 21 and for bringing to light the many issues the only voluntary time I’ve done it faced by postal workers and cusis I volunteered to do it at Christmas tomers who have been negatively just because it was such a disaster to affected by Canada Post’s contromake sure the customers got their versial five-point plan, but she said Christmas parcels.” Continued on Pg. 3
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Veteran Catherine Schofield receives instruction during the 10th annual National Veterans’ Ski Week Feb. 1-5 at Mount Washington Alpine Resort.
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