Canada Post has announced North Battleford is next in line for community mailboxes.
In a statement Friday, Phil Legault, media relations manager for Canada Post, said municipal officials as well as affected employees were informed that neighbourhoods of North Battleford with the postal code starting with S9A are next in the conversion of door-to-door delivery to community mailboxes. That will mean the end to door-to-door delivery for those impacted.
This represents 5,965 addresses to be converted in 2016, Legault said, and is part of a five-year initiative to convert one-third of Canadian addresses who still have delivery at the door to community mailboxes.
Some one million addresses have been or are in the conversion process since it began in 2014.
Affected residents will within days receive what is described as the “first of many communications from Canada Post.” First will be an information package with a mail-in survey that will inform them on how they can “express their priorities and preferences about their new delivery method.” Also, those customers with concerns will be invited to contact Canada Post by a dedicated phone number, and they are pledging to work with them.
Canada Post is also pledging that no regular full-time or part-time employee will lose their job from the changes, though they do plan to reduce their workforce by attrition.
