{"id":608495,"date":"2026-04-16T18:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/608495\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T18:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:13:08","slug":"canada-post-beginning-work-to-end-most-door-to-door-mail-delivery-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/608495\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Post beginning work to end most door-to-door mail delivery | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776363188_396_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mark Binay, co-owner of the Canada Post office in Chinatown in Vancouver, serves a customer at his shop on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Rich Lam<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>delivery changes<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tApr 16, 2026 | 10:03 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Canada Post is starting preliminary work to convert addresses that receive door-to-door mail to community mailboxes and phase out some post offices.<\/p>\n<p>The Crown corporation says the process is beginning after meetings with union officials.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release, Canada Post says it\u2019s converting about four million addresses to community mailboxes and the work is expected to take about five years, with different regions moving to community mailboxes each year.<\/p>\n<p>The corporation says it\u2019s starting discussions with 13 communities across Canada \u2014 including Ottawa and Winnipeg \u2014 as it prepares to move about 136,000 addresses from door-to-door delivery to community mailboxes in late 2026 and early 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Binay, co-owner of the Canada Post office in Chinatown in Vancouver, serves a customer at his shop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-608495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-central-vancouver-island","12":"tag-nanaimo","13":"tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","14":"tag-nanaimo-news","15":"tag-nanaimo-news-now","16":"tag-nanaimonewsnow","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-oceanside","19":"tag-parksville","20":"tag-qualicum","21":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}