Canada Post can end door-to-door delivery, close rural offices, Ottawa says
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Joël Lightbound, the minister responsible for Canada Post, said the changes are necessary to ensure the survival of the beleaguered national mail carrier and Crown corporation.
Canada Post will be allowed to end door-to-door mail delivery to individual addresses and close or convert rural post offices in a bid to stabilize its operations and restore its financial footing, the federal government announced Thursday.
The government will also allow Canada Post to adjust its delivery standards for non-urgent letter mail, allowing it to be moved by ground instead of air to “reflect today’s lower volumes.”
Joël Lightbound, the minister responsible for Canada Post, said the changes are necessary to ensure the survival of the beleaguered national mail carrier and Crown corporation.
“This situation is not sustainable,” he said. “Canada Post is effectively insolvent, and repeated bailouts are not a long-term solution.”
The government has had moratoriums in place on converting home delivery to community mailboxes since 2015, while the rural post office moratorium dates back to the 1990s.
With those barriers lifted, the remaining one-quarter of Canadians still receiving daily mail delivery — about four million addresses — will now be served by community, apartment or rural mailboxes instead.
Lightbound said those conversions will happen over the next nine years, “the bulk of which” will be in the next three to four years.
The government says lifting the community mailbox moratorium alone will save Canada Post $400 million annually, with another $20 million saved by relaxing delivery standards.
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