Canada Post no longer raising flag to indicate mail in rural areas

Canada Post no longer raising flag to indicate mail in rural areas

For decades, residents living in rural areas around eastern Ontario could tell they had mail delivered if the flag on their mailbox was up.

Rural residents no longer receive mail alerts

For the more than 700,000 rural Canadians who still receive postal materials in a cute mailbox at the end of a driveway, checking mail may start to seem a little less fun. Until recently, when rural customers received mail, postal…

Y Media Newsroom: Canada Post workers won’t raise mailbox flag anymore - South Asian Daily

In a quiet but significant shift, Canada Post has announced that its mail carriers will no longer raise the red mailbox flag to signal the arrival of new mail in rural communities. Traditionally, rural residents relied on this small visual cue to know when mail had been delivered. The change is part of an internal operational update, and while Canada Post says it aligns the flag’s use with its original purpose—signaling outgoing mail—many reside…