Union challenges move to end Canada door-to-door mail

Ottawa (AFP) – The union representing Canadian postal workers Wednesday challenged the post office’s controversial decision to phase out door-to-door mail delivery, saying in court filings that it is unconstitutional. The move aims to save 8,000 postal jobs which the Canadian Union of Postal Workers estimates will be lost if Canadians are forced to collect…

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How Canada Post is picking the locations for community mailboxes in London

By Debora Van Brenk – January 25, 2015 Little boxes — and plenty of them. Close enough to walk to — but not on our front lawns, if you please. If Londoners must give up door-to-door mail delivery in favour of communal boxes, they’re making clear how big the boxes should be and where they…

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Canada converts 100,000 customers to cluster boxes, only 4.9 million to go

(October 24, 2014) Canada is getting cluster boxes, and lots of them. This week Canada Post rolled out it plan to replace home delivery at the door to centralized delivery at a cluster box down the block. Nearly 100,000 residences, plus over 3,300 businesses, have been converted so far. Over the next five years, Canada…

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San Antonio postal customers locked out of their mail

(July 7, 2014) SAN ANTONIO — Hundreds of postal customers are making their own mail runs on the city’s northwest side. The problem: there’s a backup in changing the locks on mailboxes within subdivisions. “The people who send me mail, they pay postage. They’re paying for something to be delivered to me, and it’s not…

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Community mail boxes could be the future of postal service

May 26, 2014 (NBC) – “Community,” or curbside, mailboxes would replace door delivery for millions of Americans under a bill moving through Congress. A House committee recently approved a plan to have the postal service convert 15 million addresses to communal mailboxes over the next decade. That move could save as much as two billion…

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