Canada Post replacing locks on thousands of community mailboxes
TORONTO — Canada Post is replacing the locks on thousands of community mailboxes after an “unacceptable” number of customers had their mailboxes frozen shut last winter.
Spokesman Jon Hamilton says the locks on community mailboxes are being replaced in communities that include Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec’s eastern townships, Bathurst, N.B., Halifax, Charlottetown and St. John’s.
He says the postal agency began notifying customers about the lock replacement in September, advising them that the change would be coming.
Customers whose mailbox locks are being replaced are sent a new set of keys about two weeks before the change is made.