Canada Post will begin to convert thousands of addresses to community mailboxes under its new plan to restore the country’s postal service.

In the nation’s capital, there are 30,000 addresses that will no longer be getting door-to-door service and instead will have community mailboxes starting in late 2026 and early 2027.

Homes and businesses with the postal codes beginning with K1B, K1G, K1H, K1J, and K1K in Ottawa will be among the first to see the switch, a press release notes.

Other communities across the country seeing the changes first include Vancouver, Winnipeg, Etobicoke, Ont. Sept-Îles, Que., Moncton, N.B., among others.

“Converting an address from door-to-door delivery to a community mailbox typically takes months. Canada Post will engage with communities as it identifies suitable locations for community mailbox sites,” the release notes.

The Crown corporation says that nearly three out of four Canadian addresses already receive mail through some form of centralized delivery. Ottawa, both defined by urban and rural communities, has the most addresses being impacted by the move; the next highest is multiple cities in the Metro Vancouver Area with 23,000 addresses.

Officials from Canada Post explain in the press release that this will allow the service to be a better partner and help it meet its mandate of delivering mail to all Canadians, while not being a burden on taxpayers.

This move follows meetings with union officials after the two-year saga of collective bargaining with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. The union representing some 55,000 postal workers remains on a rotating strike heading into the busy holiday season — a critical period for Canada Post’s business.

In September 2025, the federal government pledged to transform its struggling business model when Procurement Minister Joël Lightbound unveiled a suite of changes after bailing out the corporation with $1 billion.

Changes included adjusting mail delivery standards, expanding community mailboxes to more Canadians and ending the moratorium on closing rural post offices.

With files from The Canadian Press.