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Residents must choose between Mini Storage
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core of Egmondville," he says.
Regardless of whether or not the
mail is delivered to the new
Egmondville post office, it will open
from 9 to 11 a.m. and 2:30 to 5 p.m.
from Monday to Friday and 9 a.m.
until noon on Saturday offering the
same retail service that the
Seaforth post office offers.
Maxine McClory is the new post-
master.
Tuckersmith Coun. Larry
McGrath says he's already hearing
some concerns about safety with the
new post office located outside
Egmondville on a road without side-
walks where traffic travels at high-
way speeds.
"Canada Post fulfilled their
promise (of a new post office) but in
such a way that no one will use it,"
he says, adding that residents of
Egmondville
travel north
towards Seaforth
for services, not
west out of the
village.
McGrath says
Huron East
council received
a plan from
Canada Post
-when the
Egmondville
Country Market
closed, detailing
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the lay -out of community boxes for
256 customers in Elizabeth Park.
"They dropped the big expense of
a full-tme postmaster and they did
what they wanted," McGrath says of
Canada Post's solution to a post
office in Egmondville.
"We've tried "to be as sensitive as
we can with the community. We've
had meetings with Huron East and
kept them in the loop. It's (the post
office is) not where it used to be but
we have had to deal with the candi-
dates that applied and this was our
best candiate," responds Creech.
Brian Melady, who owns . the
building where the Egmondville
post office used to be located, says
he tried to interest Canada Post in
renting space in the building where
he would renovate and provide 24-
hour access, similar to Seaforth's
post office.
But, because he did ' not apply -to
become a postmaster, he :stopped
hearing from Canada Post when the
applications. for postmaster closed
last March.
"I'm completely surprised Canada
Post was not willing to work with
me. Everyone is disappointed by the
inconvenience of the location
(Canada Post chose)," says Melady.
Creech says because of the 260
customers in the Egmondville com-
munity, a post office for
Egmondville is classified as a rev-
enue office, in which Canada Post
expects a postmaster to provide the
facility.
Seaforth, on the other hand,
serves 1,900 customers and is clas-
sified as a semi -staffed office where
Canada Post will own or rent the
building.
When asked about a promise
made a year ago by Canada Post
that green boxes will not be
returned to Egmondville, Creech
says the community mailboxes are
an "upgrade" from the green boxes
since they are brown and silver in
colour and can be used to post mail
and receive parcels..
"Canada Post is also
responsible, for the
clearance of snow
from the community
mailboxes," he says,
adding the corpora-
tion was - not responsi-
ble for snow removal
from the green boxes.
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section on Sept. 26 at
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the intersection of
Main Street and
Goderich Street while
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Community Hospital
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