Overview
- Canada Post announced on Thursday that it will add 37 communities — about 485,000 addresses — to its 2027 conversion schedule as the next phase of a five‑year plan to move roughly four million door‑to‑door addresses to community mailboxes.
- The rollout requires months of local planning with municipalities to pick sites and install boxes, and Canada Post says residents will be notified of locations and receive keys before delivery changes take effect.
- The corporation says community mailboxes increase security by locking mail and that more than 80 percent of parcels fit into mailbox compartments while oversized or signature parcels will be delivered to the door or held at post offices.
- Canada Post has reported large recent losses — a $1.57‑billion before‑tax loss in 2025 and a $205‑million before‑tax loss in Q1 2026 — which it links to falling letter volumes and lower parcel market share and uses to justify cost‑cutting reforms.
- The 2027 conversions concentrate most heavily in Ontario (about 158,000 addresses) and British Columbia (about 81,000 addresses) and include local rollouts such as roughly 17,000 Fredericton and Oromocto addresses expected by September 2027; rural home delivery and accessibility accommodations will be retained in many cases.