US EditionHome mail delivery will continue along rural roads, Canada Post confirms
Canada Post said rural mailbox users will keep home delivery as it plans to convert 4 million addresses to community mailboxes.
- Canada Post announced Thursday that about 700,000 rural households with roadside mailboxes will retain door-to-door delivery, exempting them from planned service reductions for the foreseeable future.
- The Crown corporation will transition about four million addresses to community mailboxes over five years, a plan that also includes phasing out some post offices.
- Across Canada, 73 per cent of addresses are already served by community mailboxes, post office boxes, or grouped mailboxes, reflecting the scale of the ongoing delivery network transition.
- Maintaining existing roadside service addresses rural concerns that delivery changes could force residents to travel several kilometers to collect mail, avoiding significant inconvenience.
- The decision preserves door-to-door service for 700,000 rural households, deferring broader policy trade-offs regarding service levels for the remaining four million addresses targeted for conversion.
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Home Mail Delivery on Rural Roads to Continue: Canada Post
Rural residents with roadside mailboxes will continue to receive at-home mail delivery for the time being, Canada Post has confirmed. The federal mail service is set to phase out household delivery, affecting about 4 million addresses over the next five years as part of a restructuring aimed at cutting costs after record losses at the Crown corporation. Some 700,000 homes have rural mailboxes, or roughly 4 percent of the 17.8 million addresses s…
Winnipeg Free Press
Home mail delivery will continue along rural roads, Canada Post confirms
Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada
Approximately 700,000 residences will continue to be served for at least five years, if not more.
Canada Post Confirms Rural Mail Delivery Will Continue Along Roadside Mailboxes
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. 🎧 Local news stories that matter most to youSubscribe on Spo…
Le Charlevoisien
People in rural areas where mail is delivered in individual mailboxes, i.e. the mailboxes that are on the side of rural roads in front of each residence, will continue to receive their mail at home. These rural boxes represent about 4% of the 17.8 million addresses served by Canada Post, or just over 700,000 homes. Several communities had expressed some concern about service in rural areas since a centralized post office box would have meant tra…
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