East Gwillimbury
November 15, 2008 09:08 PM
Amanda Persico
East Gwillimbury wants Canada Post to implement a civic address for all addresses in East Gwillimbury, including all rural routes.
Some rural routes carry addresses of Newmarket, Cedar Valley and Zephyr, where the mail is sorted.
But council wants addresses be marked by the appropriate village of Mount Albert, Sharon, Queensville or Holland Landing, with an East Gwillimbury address as an alternative.
As East Gwillimbury grows in population and size, the town is becoming a destination, Mayor James Young said.
“We want addresses to reflect East Gwillimbury to identify our community,” he said.
The purpose of the town resolution is to align mailing addresses with civic addresses.
The motion followed a presentation and report by John Wellsbury, manager of GTA delivery planning for Canada Post, that raised several questions from council about rural and civic addresses.
Many of the rural routes were created 50 or 60 years ago, before civic addresses were created, Mr. Wellsbury said.
It was reported the change could take between 12 and 18 months to gather individual addresses, go through an address change process and a re-direction of routes.
If Canada Post decides to follow through on the town’s resolution of changing all addresses, that would mean changes for about 4,200 destinations and Canada Post could ask the town to share the costs of initiating the change.