OTTAWA — Canada Submit is beginning preliminary work to transform addresses that obtain door-to-door mail to neighborhood mailboxes and part out some publish workplaces.
The Crown company says the method is starting after conferences with union officers.
In a information launch, Canada Submit says it’s changing about 4 million addresses to neighborhood mailboxes and the work is anticipated to take about 5 years, with completely different areas transferring to neighborhood mailboxes every year.
The company says it’s beginning discussions with 13 communities throughout Canada — together with Ottawa and Winnipeg — because it prepares to maneuver about 136,000 addresses from door-to-door supply to neighborhood mailboxes in late 2026 and early 2027.
Canada Submit says it’s additionally reviewing its retail community in preparation for closures of city and suburban publish workplaces in areas it says are at the moment over-served.
The federal authorities final yr ended a decades-long moratorium on rural publish workplace closures, a transfer that sparked some concern about the way forward for mail supply in distant communities that aren’t nicely served by non-public couriers.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed April 16, 2026.
Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press