Canada Post moving to end home mail delivery
AP News • • business
Key Points:
- Canada Post is beginning discussions with 13 communities to convert approximately 136,000 addresses from home delivery to community mailboxes, as part of a plan to end home delivery for about 4 million addresses over five years.
- Currently, 75% of the 17.6 million addresses served by Canada Post already use centralized delivery methods such as community mailboxes or post office boxes.
- The shift away from home delivery is expected to save Canada Post around CDN $400 million (US$291.96 million) annually amid significant financial losses, including over CDN $1 billion lost in the first nine months of 2025.
- Canada Post assures no layoffs will occur due to the change; while the number of letter carriers will decrease, affected employees will be reassigned to other roles within the organization.
- The move follows negotiations with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, whose members are voting on new contracts after recent strikes and disruptions; some residents, like a North Vancouver remote worker, support the change as a cost-saving measure.
