· Letter Mail Delivery Standards: Canada Post will introduce flexibilities to reflect today’s lower volumes. The average household receives just two letters per week, yet operations remain designed for far higher volumes. By adjusting standards so that non-urgent mail can move by ground instead of air, the corporation will save more than $20 million per year.
· Community Mailbox Conversions: The government is lifting the moratorium on community mailbox conversions. Currently, three-quarters of Canadians already receive mail through community, apartment, or rural mailboxes, while one-quarter still receive door-to-door delivery. Canada Post will be authorized to convert the remaining 4 million addresses to community mailboxes, generating close to $400 million in annual savings.
· Postal Network Modernization: The moratorium on rural post offices, in place since 1994, will also be lifted. The rural moratorium was imposed in 1994 and covers close to 4000 locations. It has not evolved in 30 years, but Canada has changed. This means that areas that used to be rural may now be suburban or even urban, but are still required to operate as rural post offices. Canada Post must return to the government with a plan to modernize and right-size its network.
This post contains the details of the actual changes. Most of the other posts go into a lot of the reaction and didn’t contain much details of what actually happening.
This doesn’t sound too bad to me.
This one sticks out:
By adjusting standards so that non-urgent mail can move by ground instead of air, the corporation will save more than $20 million per year.
If I put something in the mail, it’s pretty much always because it needs to get to a company or government office, and I would much prefer expediency.
If I could go from 5 to 2 days of mail delivery a week in exchange for faster shipping I would.
In the UK they have different priorities of mail (1st class, 2nd class 3rd class) so the post office understands the customer’s preferred priority.
They used to have that here too, but I haven’t heard the terms used in at least 25 years.
I must be living off the grid. I haven’t posted a letter in 20 years. I get and pay all my bills online.
I don’t even look in my mailbox more than once a month, and it’s either junk Flyers or mail to the wrong address.
I get mail for a previous house owner who hasn’t lived here in 30 years and is very likely dead.
That doesn’t seem like an issue. If you require an expedited delivery of mail, then you’d need to pay for it from my understanding. I’d imagine its not much different from overnighting a package
‘Transformation’. More like getting gutted like what you see typically from failing companies run by fools and those seeking an easy way out.
Lots of companies also fail by sticking with tried and true methods and refuse to change in changing times.
I’m curious how multi unit shared rentals (aka rooming house) work with community boxes.
Who gets access?
Does every name living at the house get a key?
If not, what happens if the person with access is unavailable?
Not entirely sure the type of dwelling you’re referring to, but a highrise or townhouse complexes already has a system in place as self managed community mailboxes.
Canada Post does not maintain locks and keys for condo, strata, apartment or business mailboxes. Contact your building manager or superintendent for keys.
A rooming house is where there is one address, as in a house, with multiple individual residents renting individual rooms.
So a rooming house could have 4 or 12 separate, unrelated, and independent individuals all using the same mailing address.
An apartment would have its own recognized unit mailing address, eg 111-222 third lane would be apartment 111. And they would have their own box.
A rooming house has no recognized individual units as such.
The changes don’t really alter those situations only makes them more prevalent.
Overall the “main” roomate or the person who really want the keys has them and just drops the mail on the counter.
After that would be usual dispute that involving landlords or legal entities. Which would usually involve more keys being made available, someone else holding onto them, PO boxes, etc.
I don’t know what a rooming house is but it’s 1 box per unit/address. The keys can just be copied so if a bunch of people share 1 box you can just each have your own copy.
It’s kind of ridiculous it took this long to enforce community mailboxes. I acknowledge some people are physically unable to reach a community mailbox but it’s such a small percentage it doesn’t make sense to base the entire system around them. There’s already ways to get door delivery for those people who live in areas with community mailboxes.
Can we be totally honest and admit the only reason we still have door delivery is to protect the jobs of mail carriers?
Can we be totally honest and admit the only reason we still have door delivery is to protect the jobs of mail carriers?
Surely we’ll make the country better when we make those people get minimum wage jobs at Tim Horton’s in the name of making government services into profit centres.
I just don’t like the unequal application. Lots of people struggling, lots of people unable to even get shitty jobs, but for some reason Canada Post mail carriers get special treatment? Nah, let’s just bite the bullet and implement UBI and stop giving some workers special protection.
What if instead of racing to the bottom we invest more in the public sector and create more good jobs that create citizens who can contribute rather than forcing more people into minimum wage or gig work?
That’s totally false that the community mailbox moratorium is just to protect the jobs of mail carriers.
Community mailboxes were a hot topic issue in the lead up to the 2015 Federal election with residents of the proposed conversions complaining about how difficult it will be to take more than one step out the door to get their mail.
With the Liberals promising a stop to the conversions, Canada Post paused the plans after they won the election
https://globalnews.ca/news/2300376/a-timeline-of-canada-posts-contentious-community-mailboxes/
It’s hard for the rural areas. I see it both ways. I’ve got a community mailbox about a block away, takes all of a minute to reach and get back. I’m for it generally, but they do get busted into a lot closer to Christmas though. Grand scheme of things though, functional system.
Where I grew up, you’d go to the end of the lane to get your mail, and a community box is probably going to mean a 10 minute drive down the concession and back. It’s not a big deal when the weather’s good, but when it’s bad and the lanes not blown out, or for the elderly, it’s a bigger deal.
But facing all the facts, it’s probably the compromise we all need to make. I dont even get much actual mail anymore, I only go to empty it every week and a half, and only because it’s so full of flyers and junk that you can’t fit anything more in it, just in case something I’m interested in was to come, that would be a problem. This isn’t going to be a popular thought maybe, but it’s been a bit of a godsend this past little while without the flyer and junk deliveries, it’s been nice seeing an empty box. We don’t need junk mail, but that’s been a pretty big revenue line for Canada Post, so it’s kind of a reckoning moment there too.
I live rurally. We’ve had community boxes for decades. It’s not more difficult at all. Just means less of making bomb proof mailboxes because snowplows and teenagers.
That’s what confused me I mean I just assumed everywhere outside of a major city already had these. Hell when I was a kid in the 80s/90s in Cambridge, Ontario we never got mail delivered to the house, it was all via the community mailboxes.
Would it be the same people delivering but just to a big box instead?
It would cut down on the people needed. When you got people out in the country hitting individual mailboxes, you need more cars and people, whereas if it’s heading to one or a few spots, you just need one person and maybe a slightly bigger vehicle.
