Requesting a CentrePost address
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Pinpointing a delivery address for some CentrePort Canada businesses located within the RM of Rosser is tricky since they have two postal codes.
One of the postal codes, R0H 1E0, is shared throughout the RM of Rosser, but the other is that of Canada Post’s main Winnipeg location.
Groupe Touchette, Canada’s largest Canadian-owned tire distributor, opened a new 100,000-square-foot distribution centre at 20 Harvest Dr. in Brookside Industrial Park Phase lll within the RM of Rosser at the end of January.
Dan Pouliot, the company’s national director for logistics, said they encountered a problem.
“Canada Post couldn’t provide a postal code,” he said. “We need a postal code for all of our vendors.”
He said they resolved the situation by checking with a neighbouring business to see what postal code it was using.
“It’s really strange that they (Canada Post) didn’t have things set up,” Pouliot said.
A spokesperson with Freightliner Manitoba said the company’s new location at 45 Bergen Cutoff Rd. has a mailing address with a downtown Winnipeg postal code and a shipping address that uses the Rosser postal code.
Rosser council recently passed a resolution requesting that “Canada Post create a postal code for the land which has boundaries known as CentrePort North as designated by the Inland Port Special Planning Area regulation; and further be resolved that the RM of Rosser requests the name of the area for mailing be known as CentrePort, Manitoba and will work with Canada Post to implement civic addressing for mail delivery within the CentrePort North lands.”
Canada Post spokesperson Hayley Magermans said discussion is in the preliminary stage and no decisions have been made.
She said Canada Post’s civic addressing program is underway across rural Canada to match a home or business’ physical address to its mailing address to help with mail and parcel delivery and emergency response.
Andrea Geary
St. Vital community correspondent
Andrea Geary was a community correspondent for St. Vital and was once the community journalist for The Headliner.
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Andrea Geary
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Andrea Geary was a community correspondent for St. Vital and was once the community journalist for The Headliner.
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