General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours

[ijmorlan]

You could call it "priced out", but surely there was no need for that large building Uptown. Post offices serve different purposes these days than they used to. And I would rather have smaller, distributed outlets than one monolithic facility.

@tomh009: isn't your list missing some? For instance, there is still an outlet Uptown in the Shoppers Drug Mart. And there is one at King and University in the 7-11.

Didn’t they used to sort there on King St.? By contrast I don’t think the current retail outlets have anything to do with sorting and distribution — they’re just collection and delivery points. I think your comment about differing purposes is right on. It somewhat pains me to say it, but the retail outlets in other stores probably is the better model now.

And I say that as somebody who really likes the palatial old post offices.