Timmins first city in northeastern Ontario to lose door-to-door delivery
Canada Post says about 10,000 addresses in Timmins will be switched to community mailboxes
Timmins will be the first city in northeastern Ontario to lose door-to-door mail delivery, and the mayor says the new community mailboxes could receive a frosty reception.
City council in Timmins passed a resolution last spring urging Canada Post to keep delivering mail to the door in neighbourhoods that receive the service.
"It doesn't sound like they have any plans of letting up under the current government with this plan moving ahead," Timmins Mayor Steve Black said on CBC Radio's Up North current affairs program.
"Communities are going to do what they can to try to rally and support our services and I am sure ours will have a similar discussion."
Canada Post said about 10,000 addresses in Timmins will be switched from home delivery to a community mailbox format next year.
The crown corporation decided to end door-to-door delivery across the country two years ago as part of a cost savings plan.
The company says "no regular full-time or part-time employee" will lose their job as a result of the changes to its mail service.
Canada Post has not said when other communities in northeastern Ontario will lose home delivery.
Strife over community mailboxes
The move to community mailboxes has not gone smoothly in some other cities.
The City of Hamilton is currently squaring off with Canada Post in court over the placement of large community mailboxes.
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The city wants the company to obey a bylaw and pay a $200 permit per site to install the mail boxes on municipal land.
Canada Post argues it should have final say over where the mail boxes are placed.
The company said people who are losing home delivery in Timmins will receive a survey so they can provide input that can help place the community mailboxes.
The survey allows people to provide feedback on concerns such as traffic and lighting around potential community mailbox sites.