Looks like Canada Post is slowly going to get rid of urban home (door to door) mail delivery.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa...very-1.2459618
Quote:
Canada Post said that over the next five years, it will eliminate 6,000 to 8,000 positions, but it expects 15,000 workers will leave the company or retire within that period.
The first communities that will switch to community mailboxes (CMBs) will be announced in the second half of 2014, according to the release.
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Will be interesting to see how they roll this out, as the superboxes are a change to what the inner city folks are used to. The sheer volume of labour wasted on hand delivery always struck me as arcane, so this is a smart move for a crown corp that is perpetually losing money.
As someone who moved from a door-door delivery to a superbox last month (same community ironically), I find I get a lot more junk mail and I forget to get it for weeks at a time, but its nice not having to worry about it piling up while I'm away.