If you have a newer community mailbox, smaller packages get left in a larger compartment in the community mailbox and they leave the compartment key in your own mailbox.
After you pick it up, you drop the key in the outbound mail compartment. It's very handy if you're not home to receive packages. In a way, it's like BufferBox.
The larger compartments are barely the size of a regular mailbox here in France though.
So, while I can understand the desire to reduce costs on the part of Canada Post, I thought they offered zero convenience to users.
And going out in the cold and the snow to fetch my mail in winter in a sidewalk-less neighbourhood was really not a pleasant experience (even if they were not very far from our house).
In Canada we have winter weather 6-8 months of the year. We LOVE going out in the cold. We play in the cold. We drink in the cold. We go out naked in the cold (after a hot tub session).
Well, that's not what people say while they're shoveling the snow out of their driveway just after the snow plow filled it with snow from the street, though.
Or when they slip in the slush and ruin their mail when coming back from the community mailbox.
If you have a newer community mailbox, smaller packages get left in a larger compartment in the community mailbox and they leave the compartment key in your own mailbox.
After you pick it up, you drop the key in the outbound mail compartment. It's very handy if you're not home to receive packages. In a way, it's like BufferBox.