Canada Post has identified 136,000 addresses across 13 communities that will no longer receive home mail delivery later this year, as the agency moves to replace door-to-door service with community mailboxes.
The federal mail service is set to phase out all household delivery, impacting approximately four million addresses over the next five years as part of a restructuring initiative aimed at reducing costs and maintaining financial viability after several years of deficits that have left the Crown corporation billions of dollars in the red.
Most of the addresses targeted in the first phase of the switchover to community mailboxes are in British Columbia and Ontario, but Manitoba, Quebec, and New Brunswick will also be impacted, according to an April 16 press release from Canada Post….