Mail delivery first started in Canada in 1693 when the
Portuguese born
Pedro da Silva was paid to deliver mail between
Quebec City and
Montreal. Official postal services began in 1775, under the control of the
British Government up to 1851. The first postage stamp (designed by Sir
Sandford Fleming) went into circulation in Canada that same year. It was not until 1867 when the newly formed
Dominion of Canada created the
Post Office Department as a federal government department (The
Act for the Regulation of the Postal Service) headed by a
Cabinet minister, the
Postmaster General of Canada. The Act took effect April 1, 1868, providing uniform postal service throughout the newly established country. The Canadian post office was designed around the British service as created by Sir
Rowland Hill, who introduced the concept of charging mail by weight and not destination along with creating the concept of the
postage stamp.
Every business day, Canada Post provides service to 14 million addresses, delivering 40 million items.Delivery takes place via traditional "to the door" service by 15,000 letter carriers, supplemented by approximately 6,000 vehicle routes in rural and suburban areas, and
truck delivery of parcels in urban areas. There are 6,800 post offices across the country, a combination of corporate offices and franchises which are operated by private retailers in conjunction with a host retail business, such as a drugstore. In terms of area serviced, Canada Post delivers to a larger area than the postal service of any other nation, As of 2004, nearly 843,000 rural Canadian customers received residential mail delivery services.
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