Despite protests and a court challenge, 10 communities across the country, including Winnipeg, Calgary and Ottawa, are making the switch from door-to-door mail delivery to community mailboxes starting Monday.
Canada Post begins phasing out door-to-door delivery
The changeover affects 12,400 homeowners and 70 businesses in The Maples, Garden City, West Kildonan, and Margaret Park, who will now get their mail in community mailboxes.
Loden said she is concerned that mail carriers may lose their jobs — a concern shared by Ben Zorn, president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers’ Winnipeg local.
Zorn says 50 per cent of mail carrier jobs have been lost in the parts of Winnipeg that are experiencing the phase-out in door-to-door delivery.
Attrition has meant no one is out of work yet, but Zorn warned that things could change.
“If Canada Post rolls this out over the next four to five years, there may certainly be a need for layoffs — that is the worst-case scenario,” he said.
Canada Post wants urban door-to-door delivery phased out by 2019.