The sun shines again today.

Early last month I had occasion to send along concerns [accompanied by photographs] on how the Food by Mail [fbm] program was working to Government officials and other concerned players. Later that week I posted some of those concerns and reactions to them.
One of the positive movements from that, was an offer by the air freight carrier, to participate in a little monitoring program, this I agreed to.

So the monitoring time is up, I must say that since that time the fbm has been arriving in Nain in a very timely manner, some times on the evening before the usual delivery day calls for. This means that the freight was delivered to the freight shed and sent out to the coast the same day. This did not go unnoticed by store managers here for sure.

The unknown is; what led up to the ever increasing late delivery that prompted me to put forward the complaint in the first place, and not for the first time.

There are however some indications as to where some of the problems may have been.
I have learnt from two sources that Canada Post may not have been forthcoming with up to date information.
It now seems that CP is going to hire a full time person to monitor and inspect the fbm shipments on arrival at the airline freight shed. To date, and contrary to CP statements, the CP inspector has only had one to two hours per week to dedicate to inspections. This is to serve two airlines that deliver the freight to six communities.
This seems to fly in the face of the contract it has with INAC that states CP is to monitor for eligibility and quality. This clearly has not been done satisfactorily for the last couple of years, and not just in Labrador it would seem.

So we can only hope that things will operate similar to the last 5 weeks on “a go forward bases” [learnt that term last night in the election debate], like what the heel does it really mean at all?

We have had these improvements before after complaints were sent in, but things regress after awhile. It’s sort of like having a young baby, or even a young husky pup, as soon as you nod off all sorts of mischief can be gotten up to.

On more sunny news, it is out again. After more days than we need of unsettled weather we have bright sun and nice crispy temperatures. Planes and boats are on the go without the discomfort or delays of days past.