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economist suntribune regional news saturday april 6 2002 sale sale sale everything in the store wedding gowns bridesmaids mother of the bride holiday evening wear prom dresses canada post resists garbage bins near superboxes by linda johnson staff writer diane chiarenza only has to look out her window to see what many of her neigh bours think of junk mail you can see it there the oak ridges resident said pointing to the community mailbox across the street it blows all over the park were always having to pick up the garbage introduced almost 20 years ago as a cheap alterna tive to home delivery- com munity mailboxes are a com- mon sight in newer subdivi sions besides the obvious inconvenience the boxes are also creating a litter problem as some residents simply leave the junk mail they dont want its a big problem here said lorraine lemieux of sunset beach road they even drop it on the ground and put it between the boxes and thats just the begin ning after receiving constant requests to clean up the area around the boxes the town started to place garbage cans nearby this seemed to have the support of residents its better in the garbage can than in the street 156 main st ijhionville open 7 days a week mon sat 1 1 am 6 pm sun 12 5 pm 9054701742 hepatitis c education support hep c chapter meeting guest speaker dr joel simms bsc mba phd psychotherapist optimizing learning to use the power of your mind for your benefit date wednesday april 17 place public health office unionville 4261 hwy 7 east jime 730 pmeveryone welcome formore information call 905 9401 333 or 1 800461 21 35 wwwhepcyorkregionorg gaspare chiarenza said but canada post has staunchly discouraged any attempts to place garbage bins near the boxes since it charges advertisers to deliver thirdclass mail it doesnt want to make it tocf easy to throw the material out richmond hill councillor david cohen said he has been trying for about 14 years work out some solution with the govern ment corporation they have no desire to provide the proper recep tacles or to send someone to clean it up they want you to carry this home to force you to read the garbage mr cohen said not only does canada post not want to provide garbage containers it has also stated it doesnt want municipalities providing them either the receptacles recently disappeared from town parks parks director lynton friedberg believes they were taken by canada post its totally off the wall and bizarre mr cohen said theyre saying no we dont want the garbage cans here even at your expense thats a real attitude problem theyre not acting like a were in the distribution business not the garbage business public corporation but a business and were interfer ing with their business by doing something to clean it up but a canada post spokesperson denied asking municipalities to remove the boxes chris bartsch said the company opposes garbage cans near the boxes because they are a safety hazard and cause other problems we have found that the placing of recepta cles at community box locations has met with poor results mr bartsch said there have been prob lems with litter and the occa sional vandalism some times the contents are blown out of the receptacle he said canada post is no more responsible for clean ing up the litter than newspa per companies are for clean ing up around newspaper boxes were in the distribution business not the garbage business he said we dis tribute advertising mail along with all our other kinds of mail we want people to take the mail home v