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Canada Post on Thursday said it is beginning discussions with 13 communities that will see their mail delivery service converted to community mailboxes later this year, kicking off what it says will be a five-year national conversion plan. The mail carrier is fully shifting away from door-to-door delivery as part of a multi-year business overhaul that it hopes will stop years of financial losses. While the company says a majority of Canadians are already part of centralized delivery systems like community mailboxes, about four million addresses still receive their mail and parcels at their doorsteps. Canada Post said in a news release that, after meetings with union officials, it is now in talks to begin converting roughly 136,000 of those addresses to community mailboxes in late 2026 and early 2027.

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It's so that if the customer doesn't receive the package, the police can prove that the delivery driver was at that location with the package at that exact time.

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