Canada Post is going to cut back on how often mail gets delivered straight to your door as it forges ahead to fix its finances.

In a press conference Thursday, Minister Joel Lightbound told reporters, the Crown corporation is facing an existential crisis, and they will accept all of the recommendations in the Industrial Inquiry Commission’s report.

It means on average mail will likely take longer to get to your mailbox, taking anywhere from three to seven days, instead of three to four.

Other changes the federal government is implementing, is converting millions more to community mailboxes, lifting the moratorium on closing rural mailboxes as well as restructuring its management.

Lightbound said there is less parcel mail these days, and they are facing competition with private mail carriers.

Canada Post has been in negotiations with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) has been ongoing for a year and a half.

more to come…