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Canada Post is phasing out door-to-door delivery of regular mail to urban residents and increasing the cost of stamps in a major move to try to reduce significant, regular losses.
The Crown corporation announced its plans Wednesday, saying urban home delivery will be phased out over the next five years.
Starting March 31, the cost of a stamp will increase to 85 cents each if bought in a pack, up from 63 cents. Individual stamps will cost a dollar.
I'm not surprised at all, give it another 10years and everything might be done electronically. It's weird thinking about that but that's the way it's going so I can't really see this as a surprise.
The waits at my post office to pickup packages I missed at the door are a fucking joke, hire more in-store staff if they end door to door delivery, waiting fucking 20 minutes to get two HDMI cables :/ Posted via RS Mobile
I have not mailed anything in years but I still get mail from various places.
Been switching to electronic billing wherever possible. Seems like what gets delivered now is just junk mail....cant say I will miss it at all haha
Most of it is just statements of shit we're to lazy to switch to paperless and the rest of it is bullshit spam from realtors and coupons.
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-CT flyer
-Bestbuy flyer
-Futureshop flyer
-Save-on flyer
-Safeway flyer
-random coupon spam/junk envelope
-Army and Navy flyer
-MSP bill
-ICBC reminder
-bridge toll bill
-property tax/assessment
-annoying "you're due for a cleaning" from a dentist I no longer visit
-student loan statement
-mail for other people
Getting mail as an adult sucks...there is nothing "fun" about opening it anymore.
I have not mailed anything in years but I still get mail from various places.
Been switching to electronic billing wherever possible. Seems like what gets delivered now is just junk mail....cant say I will miss it at all haha
What about that Drone thing from amazon? I heard some Euro country was trying it out for mail delivery. Wonder if it would work in Canada?
The only downside aside from the jobs lost is the fact that mail thieves now get 100:1 deal. break into 1 community box get 100 items vs. travel, break in , travel break in - time is money! I hope these community boxes have some good security.
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Make the effort and take the risk..
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The only downside aside from the jobs lost is the fact that mail thieves now get 100:1 deal. break into 1 community box get 100 items vs. travel, break in , travel break in - time is money! I hope these community boxes have some good security.
We had our mailbox broken into 4 times last year during tax season and that was the inside community box for our apartment. We finally had to move it to a more secure area in the building.
I can't imagine a community box outside somewhere being more secure.
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the old Asian guy who delivers the mail to my house is awesome 
