Canada Post to end door delivery at 5,500 Windsor-Essex homes

Canada Post will be taking the next step in its plan to convert door-to-door delivery to community mailboxes, which will being in Windsor-Essex in fall 2015.

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Canada Post on Wednesday informed employees at its Windsor Station Tecumseh depot that 427 homes in Windsor, 672 in Lakeshore, and 4,358 address in Tecumseh will be converting to the new service.

Those are homes with postal codes starting with N8N, N8P and N9K.

This week the households affected will receive an information package about the change, which will include a mail-in survey.

Also included will be information on how people can express their priorities and preferences about their new delivery method.

Mayor of Tecumseh has concerns

Even though Mayor Gary McNamara said even though the town knew the change was coming, he still has some worries.

"The biggest concern that I have is on the disability of individuals and the seniors in our community," he said. "We all know that sometimes there's some difficulties for them just to get outside of their own homes, especially in the winter time."

McNamara wants to see more communication from Canada Post about how they're going to mitigate some of these issues.

Canada Post said it is currently using answers from survey's from other regions going through the conversation process to provide insight and facilitate planning with the city to help choose safe locations for the community mailboxes.

The postal service said no regular full-time or part-time jobs will be lost through this initiative — it plans to reduce its workforce through attrition, as people leave the company.