Canada Post says rural residents with individual roadside mailboxes will continue to receive home mail delivery for the foreseeable future.
The Crown corporation recently announced that delivery to about four million addresses will be sent to community mailboxes instead, part of a plan that also includes phasing out some post offices.
The change is expected to take about five years.
Several rural communities had expressed concern that the shift could potentially require residents to travel several kilometres to get their mail.
About 700,000 homes have rural mailboxes, accounting for approximately four per cent of the 17.8 million addresses served by Canada Post.
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The Crown corporation said in a statement that rural addresses won’t be affected by the plan to reduce home delivery, at least for now.
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“For now, people who already receive their mail via rural mailboxes will see no change,” the statement said. “These addresses are not part of the initial announcement targeting the four million addresses that still receive home delivery and will eventually be converted to community mailboxes.”
Canada Post has said 73 per cent of addresses in Canada are already served by community mailboxes, post office boxes, or mailboxes grouped in multi-unit residential buildings.
Fire all the management, they’re useless…
Oh Good – and lets continue bread & milk home delivery to rural roads because we all know how hard it is for folks to get to town in the 21st, century for groceries, never mind a real estate flyer and greeting card from a senile aunt.
The rural roads are the last place that should have home delivery. It’s easy to do home delivery when the next house is 2 meters away. Hard when it’s 2000.
rural residents with individual roadside mailboxes will cost ~$8/letter. Why is the rest of canada paying for this?
They should be able to let half their staff go when the do switch to community boxes. They’ve become a tax dollar money-pit.
That’s not fair. Make the rural people get their mail in the big city, like when then need to see a doctor.
Why bother they don’t notify us now that we have mail. The driver make more money than the postal managers which is beyond my comprehension. I live in a rural area just tell me where to get my mail even if I have to pick it up at the post office.
I’ve seen lots of community boxes in rural areas,what a bunch of pussys
Most of us have had group boxes on rural roads for over 40 years, so quit bullshipping us