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 served by the agency. Some rural residents say the change would force them to travel several kilometres to collect their mail.
The Crown corporation released a statement confirming rural addresses will not be impacted by the plan to cut back on home delivery, at least for the moment….