Canada Post is moving ahead with its modernization plan, which will see the end of door-to-door mail delivery as had been expected under restructuring directives, the Crown corporation said in a statement Tuesday.
The changes come as part of the federal government’s direction to Canada Post to “implement transformative changes to ensure we can meet the evolving needs of Canadians without becoming a recurring burden on taxpayers,” the statement said.
“These proposed changes include converting the remaining addresses that still receive delivery at the door to community mailboxes and modernizing our retail network,” a Canada Post statement said.
Last year, the federal government said Canada Post would be allowed to end door-to-door mail delivery to individual addresses and close or convert some post offices in a bid to stabilize its operations and restore its financial footing.
The government will also allow Canada Post to adjust its delivery standards for non-urgent letter mail, allowing it to be moved by ground instead of air to “reflect today’s lower volumes.”
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Joël Lightbound, the minister responsible for Canada Post, said the changes are necessary to ensure the survival of the beleaguered national mail carrier and Crown corporation.
“This situation is not sustainable,” he said. “Canada Post is effectively insolvent, and repeated bailouts are not a long-term solution.”
Lightbound had said last fall, when he lifted the moratorium on further conversions to community mailboxes, that there are roughly one-quarter of Canadians still receiving daily mail delivery — about four million addresses — who will now be served by community, apartment or rural mailboxes instead.
Lightbound said those conversions will be phased in over the next nine years, “the bulk of which” will be in the next three to four years.
— With files from Global’s Sean Boynton
I see we can’t even mail a letter or parcel , have to go to a post office now, guess their going to have to hire more people
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Cool.
Will there be recycling bins at the mailboxes to dump junk mail in so we don’t have to take it home for processing?
If this was happening under a conservative government, I can’t imagine the howling that would be going on. At the end of the day, Canada Post refused to change with the times, and now it’s being forced to make these unpopular decisions.
For gods sake Canada post has 15 that’s right 15 vice Presidents, give me a break. Home delivery has nothing to do with it.
Canada Post isn’t a corporation for profit. It’s a public service. The Canadian government is beyond pathetic at this point. Just a bunch of spineless mouthbreathers.
The winers are out in force.
Can’t wait until the parcels delivered to your door for all the online shopping go to $100 bucks each without competition prices always rise higher & higher Just FYI Canada Post is a Public SERVICE not a money making proposition. Are the Hospitals asked to make money, the Police Service Fire Service
They should disband we don’t need a service that gets tones of money to deliver mail when we have other better delivery agencies
About time. I havent had home delivery in about 40 years.
Then what are we paying CP for if they aren’t doing their jobs and paying themselves hefty salaries besides holding the country hostage every 2 years at Christmas time. Its time Canada Post is CLOSED once and for all. We dont need them and there are plenty of other companies who are capable and have proved it….. and for far less.
dont need daily home delivery to my mailbox. will gladly go down the block to get my mail.
trudeau liberals canceled what Harper started and now liberals are doing what Harper started.
all these lazy assholes deliver is flyers anyways, how about stop with the flyers then you will not need to deliver every day
Just privatise Canada post, then it won’t lose money union’s don’t like it fine lay everyone off and restart the service as Canada mail hire workers who know what work is problem solved
Its about time feds cut ACROSS the board for the next 10 years
So taxpayers fund over a million a day that Canada Post cost. They have not removed massive over head of management that has failed for decades.
They are just going to cut services to the lowly taxpayers funding the corporation that should have closed should still close its beyond bankruptcy. Taxpayers shouldn’t pay its retirement packages either its bankrupt.
AND THAT – DEAR PEOPLE – IS THE RESULT OF A GREEDY UNION.
I completely disagree with this 100% because the government is only taking this money and putting it somewhere else that is not benefiting any provincial citizens, not only that whereas crime and fraud is at an all-time high you now want to put all our sensitive documents out in the public for randoms to be able to steal so now we’re going to have an even greater threat within the borders of Canada that is foreign individuals on Green card status work green card Visa we’ve had an influx a massive influx in fraud since we had 77,000 individuals enter our country and now you guys want to literally put our mail and all our private personal documents on a corner for anybody to access because let’s not let’s be realistic here those mailboxes are so easy to open a child can do it with a paperclip
This is absolutely outrageous
Greedy unions over decades….it has come back to bite you…..you deserve tge pokey line……happy soup kitchen
How come Walmart can have unlimited same day deliveries but Canada post is paid dearly and yet can’t do the basics?
Where the money go?
Go f*ck yourself Canada Post.
Great ,,, now the tax payers are going to have their mail stolen from these tin boxes,,, so very wrong in all aspects
As a retired postie it’s well known these community mail boxes are broken into weekly
I would definitely change to a PO Box , more secure
Ridiculous. There will be no mail , paper mail within year. Retire or recycle half of postma. And deliver mail to existing residential adresses and communal boxes, twice a week. That will really reduce costs. DO NOT BUILD NEW COLLECTIVE BOXES. STOP WASTING MY MONEY!
These mailboxes are far more secure than dumping at door. I am waiting for the whiners pointing out the bed ridden and cant go out side to retrieve their mail. Get a neighbor to do it.
I get 100% reliability of the community new paper delivered to my house every week. Just get that person to deliver the odd government cheque or bill. The community newspaper delivery person doesn’t demand a $100,000 wage plus massive benefits like free sex change operations.
Mail service is just that, a service. What’s next? Privatise the roads because they don’t turn a profit, and put a toll camera on every corner? How about we go back to subscriptions for police and firefighters, like they originally did it?
This is what Conservatives do. They break something, strangle it to death, make a fuss about how bad it’s doing, and get rid of it. Then pat themselves on the back for deciding to do nothing instead.
They been doing this for years, I had mail people run away after slapping a “we missed you come pick it up” slip while I’m right at the door… so door to door delivery hasn’t been a thing for a long time.
Great now defund global suck news
Finally, Cda Post making a reasonable decision! Now privatise smaller post offices. Get rid of weekend delivery nonsense. Dump some of the high priced management people.
How about getting rid of all the bosses that aren’t needed and bonuses they get !
Canada Post should just end Canada Post.
Interesting because I cant get an anker power station delivered to a pick up location and I dont see how putting it in a metal box with no ventilation is any better.
Harper was ahead of his time. Tru-Dope just wasn’t ready and here we are.
Just wait until that $200/yr bill starts coming in and the postal workers STILL strike at Christmas because they “don’t get paid enough”. Then there’s the not nice people that break into your outdoor box on the off chance that there may be a cheque or package in it.
Presently we have a 2 tier system. Some of us have post offices and super-mailboxes. and some of us have door-to-door delivery. That is not fair. This is not the best outcome, but at least it is fair.
20 years to late. Reduce home deliver to twice a week at the same time.
How about just stop giving Canada post any money at all. If you can’t run a business and make money close it down.
About time
“We demand a huge raise followed by a drastic reduction in work!”