Mailbox design unveiled
Canada Post prepares for end to home delivery
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Canada Post has unveiled a new design for community mailboxes that are scheduled to replace home delivery.
The mailboxes have larger compartments for parcels and the individual compartments for mail are bigger than the current community mailboxes.
Two neighbourhoods in northwest Winnipeg will be among the first 11 areas across the country to get community mailboxes in the fall, the first step in ending home delivery.
At the same time the new mailboxes were unveiled, Canada Post referred customers to a new survey it says will help them serve people better.
It asks questions such as whether people own or rent their home, and whether their home mail delivery has increased or declined during the past three years.
The survey takes participants through a presentation on the advantages of phasing out home delivery and continues with questions, such as whether people want their mailbox in a large community-style bank or a small neighbourhood cluster.
Details on when and where the newly redesigned boxes will be erected in Winnipeg were not available.
Earlier last month, Canada Post named the 11 communities where mail will be delivered to new community mailboxes beginning in the fall. It is the first stage of a five-year national initiative involving roughly five million addresses.
Only a few specific neighbourhoods will be affected in larger cities in the initial stage.
Within the affected areas, most businesses will keep delivery at their door.
In smaller municipalities, nearly all households and a higher proportion of businesses will move to community mailbox delivery.
In Winnipeg, that includes 12,500 addresses with postal codes that start with R2P and R2V.
To see the survey click on http://feedback.canadapost.ca/winnipeg/.