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Today, as in years past, the rural delivery service uses a network of rural routes traveled by carriers to deliver and pick up mail to and from roadside mailboxes. Formerly, an address for mail to a rural delivery address included both the rural route number and the box number, for example "RR 5, Box 10."
That would come at a time when the postal service has already seen a sharp drop in first-class mail volume, which has slipped to 28% to 46 billion pieces in 2023 from almost 64 billion pieces in ...
By 1979, the growing number of rural residences in Strathcona County, Alberta, had made it too cumbersome for Canada Post to accurately deliver the mail using the existing rural route system. Faced with interrupted mail delivery the county's reeve, JD Morrow, directed a County engineer, Paul Steinhubl, to solve this pressing problem.
The amount of mail sent to Santa Claus increased every Christmas, to the point that Canada Post established an official Santa Claus letter-response program in 1983. By 2011, Santa's mail was being handled with the assistance of 11,000 volunteers, mostly current or former postal workers, [ 36 ] at multiple locations across Canada, [ 37 ] [ 38 ...
Here’s exactly what to know about December 26 mail delivery in 2023. Is the post office open today? Yes—Great news for those looking to send a New Year’s card .
In Klein’s case, a Postal Service spokeswoman said, the problem is the road. Hillman Ridge is paved but narrows to a width slightly larger than a pickup truck as it approaches Klein’s property.
Rural areas cover approximately 9,197,138 km 2 (3,551,035 sq mi) of Canada's land area as of 2015. [2] Rural Canada is usually defined by low population density, small population size, and distance from major agglomerations. As of the 2021 census, nearly 6 million people (16% of the total Canadian population) lived in rural areas of Canada. [3 ...
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