Global InformationCanada Post information
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Trade name | Canada Post |
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| Company type | Crown corporation |
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| Founded | July 1, 1867 (as Royal Mail Canada) |
| Headquarters | 2701 Riverside Drive[1] Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0B1 |
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| Services | Courier Freight Logistics |
| Revenue | $11.69 billion[2] (2024) |
Net income | $−287 million[2] (2024) |
Number of employees | 72,000[3] |
| Subsidiaries | Purolator Inc. (91%) |
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| Website | www |
Canada Post Corporation (French: Société canadienne des postes), trading as Canada Post (French: Postes Canada), is a Crown corporation that functions as the primary postal operator in Canada.
Originally known as Royal Mail Canada (the operating name of the Post Office Department of the Canadian government founded in 1867), the Canada Post Corporation Act of 1981 abolished the Post Office Department and created the present-day Crown corporation that provides postal service.[4] The act aimed to set a new direction for the postal service by ensuring its financial security and independence.[5]
Canada Post provided service to more than 16 million addresses and delivered nearly 8.4 billion items in 2022 and consolidated revenue from operations reached $11.11 billion.[6] Delivery takes place via traditional "to the door" service and centralized delivery by 25,000 letter carriers, through a 13,000 vehicle fleet. There are more than 6,200 post offices across the country, a combination of corporate offices and private franchises that are operated by retailers, such as drugstores. In terms of area serviced, Canada Post delivers to a larger area than the postal service of any other nation, including Russia (where Russian Post service in Siberia is limited largely to communities along the railway).[citation needed] As of 2022, nearly 3.5 million rural Canadian customers received residential mail delivery services.[7]
Canada Post operates as a group of companies called The Canada Post Group. It employs approximately 70,000 full and part-time employees. The Corporation holds an interest in Purolator Courier, Innovapost, Progistix-Solutions and Canada Post International Limited.[8] In 2000, Canada Post created a company called Epost, allowed customers to receive their bills from participating merchants and institutions online for free. In 2007, Epost was absorbed into Canada Post. In early 2022, Canada Post announced that the Epost service would be discontinued at the end of the year.
Canada Post (French: Postes Canada) is the Federal Identity Program name. The legal name is Canada Post Corporation in English and Société canadienne des postes in French. During the late 1980s and much of the 1990s, the short forms used in the corporation's logo were "Mail" (English) and "Poste" (French), rendered as "Poste Mail" in Québec and "Mail Poste" in the other provinces.[9] Although English-language advertising also still referred to the corporation as "Canada Post".
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on August 17, 2016. Retrieved July 25, 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ a b "By the Numbers". Retrieved September 7, 2023.
- ^ "2020 Annual Financial Report" (PDF). Canada Post. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
- ^ "Canada Post Corporation Act". Department of Justice (Canada). Justice Laws. 1985. Retrieved May 1, 2014.
- ^ Canada Post Corporation Act Archived March 12, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Part I Section 5
- ^ "2016 Annual Report - Overview" (PDF). Canada Post Corporation. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 11, 2020. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
- ^ Randall Denley (May 3, 2008). "Canada Post set to deliver fatal blow to rural mail service". The Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved February 17, 2009.
- ^ "Canada Post-Fast Facts". Archived from the original on October 3, 2006.
- ^ MAIL POSTE & DESIGN trademark (application no. 0577188) Archived April 20, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Canadian Intellectual Property Office, accessed 23 May 2010