Canada Post Suspends Community Mailbox Installation

Canada Post is halting the installation of community mailboxes, one week after the Trudeau Liberals were elected with a pledge to scrap the move away from door-to-door mail delivery.

Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are holding true to its election promise of the suspension of community mailboxes.

“We will work collaboratively with the Government of Canada to determine the best path forward given the ongoing challenges faced by the Canadian postal system”, the corporation said.

Officials say conversions slated for November and December, or announced for 2016, are being put on hold, and those customers will receive a letter shortly with an update.

Canada Post has announced it will temporarily suspend the implementation of all new community mailboxes.

The union workers and a few residents also said the community mailboxes decreased property values of the homes nearby.

But people who have already lost their door-to-door service will still have to go to their community mailbox to get their mail-at least for now.

In neighbourhoods where the 10-month-long conversion is already complete, customers will have to use their community mailboxes. That will include customers set to begin receiving their mail and parcels in their boxes in October.

With more of the boxes being erected across major Canadian cities, Canadian Union of Postal Workers national president Mike Palecek says all it would take is a phone call.

There are 460,000 addresses in Canada presently in the 10-month long conversion process, which Canada Post says it will halt “in an orderly fashion”.