West Island, South Shore first on Canada Post chopping block

Several municipalities and neighbourhoods on the West Island and South Shore are scheduled to lose their door-to-door mail delivery service at the start of 2015.

• Canada Post to phase out urban home mail delivery
• Canada Post preparing for half as much mail, CEO says
• Are Canada Post's community mailboxes really safe?

Residents ofDollard-des-Ormeaux,Pointe-Claire, Kirkland,Dorval,Lachine,Pierrefonds-RoxboroandL'le-Bizard-Ste-Genevivewill be among the first to switch over to community mailboxes in early 2015.

In addition to that, CBCs French-language service Radio-Canada has learned that by the end of next year, the entire South Shore will have lost its at-home mail delivery. Longueuil,Brossardand St-Lambert will be the first to see their letter carriers disappear.

"Canada Post is currently reaching out to approximately 70,000 addresses in the greater Montreal area to be converted to community mailboxes in the spring of 2015.This will be in addition to the approximately 24,000 addresses to be converted to community mailboxes in theMontrealarea later this year," Canada Post spokeswomanCarleySmith told CBC News in an email.

Canada Post announced in December itplans to cut home delivery service in urban areas and switch people over to community mailboxes by 2019.

Smith said people living in buildings where the mail is delivered to a central lobby, or for those who live in rural areas and have their own mailbox at the end of their driveways.

A spokesman for the union representing postal workers in the Montreal area said he was awareTerrebonneandMascouchewould be affected, but hes frustrated to learn about other affected communities through the media.

The union estimates between 6,000 and 8,000 mail carrier jobs will be cut in the conversion.