Government of Canada instructs Canada Post to begin transformation - Canada.ca (www.canada.ca)

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· Letter Mail Delivery Standards: Canada Post will introduce flexibilities to reflect today’s lower volumes. The average household receives just two letters per week, yet operations remain designed for far higher volumes. By adjusting standards so that non-urgent mail can move by ground instead of air, the corporation will save more than $20 million per year.

· Community Mailbox Conversions: The government is lifting the moratorium on community mailbox conversions. Currently, three-quarters of Canadians already receive mail through community, apartment, or rural mailboxes, while one-quarter still receive door-to-door delivery. Canada Post will be authorized to convert the remaining 4 million addresses to community mailboxes, generating close to $400 million in annual savings.

· Postal Network Modernization: The moratorium on rural post offices, in place since 1994, will also be lifted. The rural moratorium was imposed in 1994 and covers close to 4000 locations. It has not evolved in 30 years, but Canada has changed. This means that areas that used to be rural may now be suburban or even urban, but are still required to operate as rural post offices. Canada Post must return to the government with a plan to modernize and right-size its network.

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[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

I'm curious how multi unit shared rentals (aka rooming house) work with community boxes.

Who gets access?

Does every name living at the house get a key?

If not, what happens if the person with access is unavailable?

[-] SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Not entirely sure the type of dwelling you're referring to, but a highrise or townhouse complexes already has a system in place as self managed community mailboxes.

https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/support/kb/receiving/community-mailboxes/lost-community-mailbox-key.page

Canada Post does not maintain locks and keys for condo, strata, apartment or business mailboxes. Contact your building manager or superintendent for keys.

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A rooming house is where there is one address, as in a house, with multiple individual residents renting individual rooms.

So a rooming house could have 4 or 12 separate, unrelated, and independent individuals all using the same mailing address.

An apartment would have its own recognized unit mailing address, eg 111-222 third lane would be apartment 111. And they would have their own box.

A rooming house has no recognized individual units as such.

[-] SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

The changes don't really alter those situations only makes them more prevalent.

Overall the "main" roomate or the person who really want the keys has them and just drops the mail on the counter.

After that would be usual dispute that involving landlords or legal entities. Which would usually involve more keys being made available, someone else holding onto them, PO boxes, etc.

[-] tleb@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

I don't know what a rooming house is but it's 1 box per unit/address. The keys can just be copied so if a bunch of people share 1 box you can just each have your own copy.