Firefighters raise plenty Sa EAP ot ce ry. fre dak January 18, FO8R News 985-2130 Classified 986-6222 uper’ box riles N. Van residents RESIDENTS IN a North Vancouver housing development caught in the crossfire of Canada Post's aationwide cut in door-to-door home mail delivery are livid that the corpora- tion kas not delivered on a promise to extend the service to their urea. a3 Residents in the 22-heame Cum- By MIC mins Place cul-de-sac claim when the first houses were occupied in the fall of 1984, a Canada Post delivery supervisor assured them the new residential area would receive door-to-door delivery upou subdivision completion. But since the summer of °85, new Canada Post policy has cut the extension of door-to-door delivery ta new housing areas. nt lm Tesscont CUMMINS PLACE News it and some don’t.’ Fred Masaro, a Cummins Place resident who almost had a super- mailbox planted in front of his home in 1986, fought the issue last spring in Ottawa as the western representative for Citizens United for Equitable Postal Service. NEWS photo Mike Wakafleldé Fred Masaro would like to see his home mail slot busier. Masaro and his vicighbors are lobbying Canada Post for door to door mail service. The postal corporation wants to place a supermailbox in the North Vancouver subdivision. : While Cummins Place residents continue to wrangle over suitable placement of a supermailbox in the neighborhood and argue the finer point of whether or not they are entitled to the door-to-door delivery service, the long-term status of current door-to-door delivery throughout the country is in doubt, according to North Van- couver-Burnaby MP Chuck Cook. “The plan is to get rid of all home delivery over 10 years,”’ Cook said. ‘But as things stand it’s offensive that some people get at Diets Masaro met with Liberal leader John Turner; the national NEP caucus; Harvey Andre, Minister Responsible for Canada Post and Corporate and Consumer Affairs; and a standing committee on gov- ernment operations. He said other subdivisions built in the municipality during the same period are receiving door-to-door delivery. “We're opposed to the super- mailbox because we should have See Mailbox