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Re:Canada Post to phase out urban home mail delivery by afreak on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @02:21PM (#6889934)
> Only people who live in older, more affluent areas built before community mailboxes receive home mail delivery. It's effectively a subsidy from us to them. Good riddance.

My parents' old house in a suburb of Vancouver is not in an affluent area and received such door to door service. Their new neighbourhood (which is rather upper middle income) and the apartment block that I live in doesn't however have this and has the "new-fangled" community mailboxes.

I personally am not a fan of this but the amount of mail I have received has diminished to just bills.

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Re:Canada Post to phase out urban home mail delivery by danudey on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @02:44PM (#6890124)
Agreed. I grew up in Saskatchewan, and a lot of people live in houses even if they rent, all of whom have home delivery. It's the norm in any area where houses were also the norm, but where acre lots weren't.
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