I accept that, but I understand the limitations you face as a public servant as well.
Having said that, this is not about anyone believing that somehow people carrying the mail should be put at risk; that isn't what it is about. This is, however, about the execution. On Monday, probably 1,100 people in my riding were told there would be no mail on Tuesday, or that there would be mail in some cases 60 kilometres away by return trip. This involves seniors, rural areas, and people with disabilities. It wasn't at all well done, truthfully. I don't know whether you want to do it now, but it should be accepted that it wasn't at all well done.
People saw this coming, so when I called on Tuesday, having received 60 calls, I was told that in fact it might be six weeks. That's what I was told, and you've said it again today—sometimes you mentioned six weeks—so that gives some credibility to it. I understand now it might be two weeks. That's better than six weeks, but I still have to register my displeasure, when we knew this was coming, that we have to order boxes, or we want to do community consultation, or whatever is the reason, with the fact that it has to take this amount of time. All of those things could have been done in advance with the community.
To a large part of this, involving a lot of the people who are caught in this decision, the argument we are talking about can't apply. People could have done many of these houses without violating any safety.... A lot of these are cul de sacs. It's a different issue, frankly, but you'd have to be on the ground to know that. That is what the community engagement part would be about.