An Ontario court has found that Canada Post’s authority to place mailboxes where they want trumps the jurisdiction of municipalities to have a say in the matter.. It is an old federal rule dating from the days when the mail was more important than anything the government did. And before mail boxes turned into super mailboxes, many of which are the size of a bus shelter. None of this mattered however to the judge who found that Canada Post was “entitled to make decisions which go to the benefit of its survival.” Hamilton and other cities across the country have been fighting the placement of these large installations under pressure from homeowners.
