CALGARY – Calgarians learned on Thursday which neighbourhoods will be next in Canada Post’s transition from door-to-door mail delivery to community mailbox.
The company told municipal officials that neighbourhoods in Calgary with postal codes starting with T2G, T2K, T3A and T3K will be next to move to the superboxes. Canada Post says those communities represent 28,345 addresses and will be converted in 2016.
It’s part of a five-year initiative to change one-third of Canadian addresses to community mailboxes. As of June 2015, 29,845 Calgary addresses have been converted to community mailboxes, and there will be another 55,496 by the end of this year, said a spokesperson.
You can read a progress report of the five-year initiative to convert one-third of Canadian addresses to community mailboxes that was published online.
Canada Post says residents whose door-to-door delivery is ending will receive a mail-in survey and information package within the next couple of days. People with concerns about the new method can call Canada Post at 1-844-454-3009 or visit the Canada Post website.
Canada Post spokesperson Phil Legault said 260,000 Canadians have already shared their feedback, “which proved very helpful in choosing safe, suitable locations.”
Calgarians have already come forward to Global News with concerns about the location of some of the “superboxes.”
“There’s going to be people standing here all the time when they’re getting their mail,” Nicole Norris, who has lived in her Cedarbrae home for two years, told Global News in March. “There’s going be dogs going to the washroom around it, there’s going to be people…if they drop their garbage.”
After inquiries from Global News, Norris said in April Canada Post is now relocating the box across the street to where an old mail carrier drop box once stood.
Canada Post says across the country, it’s modified between 20 to 40 per cent of community mailbox sites after feedback from residents. That feedback includes concerns as well as helpful comments, such as “there’s ice that accumulates in that spot during winter, so you may want to put it somewhere else.”
“With mail volumes continuing to decline, the changes we are making are necessary to secure postal service for all Canadians,” said Legault in a Thursday email. “We are proceeding in communities across the country as we have for years – in a thoughtful, consultative manner and in accordance with the laws that govern how postal service is provided in Canada.”
With files from Tony Tighe
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