By Kellah Lavoie

Postal service to change for community north of P.A.

Feb 25, 2011 | 5:36 AM

Residents of Spruce Home will be using a new postal system soon.

The community north of Prince Albert has been using a Canada Post partner postal outlet dealer for years. The retail outlet has decided as of May 1, they will no longer continue the service.

Canada Post has been working with the Rural Municipality of Buckland to find a solution, said Colleen Frick, Canada Post spokeswoman.

“We’ve met with community leaders and it’s been agreed that we will install community mailboxes in Spruce Home and have them in service for pick up following the postal outlet dealer’s resignation towards the end of April,” she said.

The main goal of the R.M. was to make the transition as simple as possible for those who use the Spruce Home office Larry Fladager, Rural Municipality of Buckland reeve, said.

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“Our concern was we don’t want people to have to change their address and in order to do that we are likely going to get a community mail box system at that same location so that people can pick up their mail at the same location and they won’t have to change their address,” he said.

The change will allow residents to pick up their mail at whatever time suites them — at the current site the boxes are available Monday to Friday until 6 p.m.

“It’s the new system where there are boxes for everyone, they can pick up their mail at any time, there is parcel service available at the boxes in a large box with a key placement service,” he said.

Frick added there is also a place for outgoing mail on the community mail box.

Boxes like these are nothing new for the rural municipality. There are 15 to 18 of them already in use, Fladager said.

The only thing the two groups have left to figure out is the exact site of the boxes.

Fladager said he would like them at the same corner the post office is currently located – the junction of Highway 2 and Highway 355. He said they will also need to install lighting in the area of the boxes.

The post office currently supplies 224 boxes to residents of the area, Frick said.

Canada Post plans to send letters to those affected with all the details as soon as they have a location for the community boxes.

klavoie@panow.com