Canada Post lays out 5-year plan to convert to community mailbox delivery - BERITAJA

Canada Post connected Thursday said it is opening discussions pinch 13 communities that will spot their message transportation work converted to community mailboxes later this year, kicking disconnected what it says will beryllium a five-year nationalist conversion plan.

The message bearer is afloat shifting distant from door-to-door transportation arsenic portion of a multi-year business overhaul that it hopes will extremity years of financial losses.

While the institution says a mostly of Canadians are portion of centralized transportation systems for illustration organization mailboxes, about 4 cardinal addresses still person their message and parcels astatine their doorsteps.

Canada Post says it is now successful talks to statesman converting about 136,000 of those addresses to organization mailboxes successful precocious 2026 and early 2027.

Those addresses are successful areas of the pursuing cities:

• Moncton and Riverview, N.B.
• Sept-Îles, Que.
• La Prairie and Candiac, Que.
• Ottawa, Ont.
• Etobicoke area of Toronto, Ont.
• Winnipeg, Man.
• Abbotsford, B.C.
• Mission, B.C.
• City of North Vancouver, District of North Vancouver and West Vancouver, B.C.

Canada Post said about of the addresses are adjacent to areas already served by organization mailboxes, but noted the conversion process will beryllium lengthy.

“Converting an reside from door-to-door transportation to a organization mailbox typically takes months,” the institution said successful a statement.

“Canada Post will prosecute pinch communities arsenic it identifies suitable locations for organization mailbox sites. It is besides notifying residents of the upcoming alteration to their message delivery, and will support them, businesses, bargaining agents and labor informed each measurement of the way.”

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