POSTAL DELIVER INDIA-CANADA -699

  POSTAL DELIVERY IN INDIA AS ALSO IN  CANADA 

It may come as a surprise to many but unlike in India or many places in the Sub Continent , Postal  Letters are not delivered to each and every Individual House in Canada .

Each Neighborhood has a place where individual small Metal Kiosks with  locks are provided for each and every House in the neighborhood. 

CANADA POSTWOMAN/MAN drops the letters individually in these Kiosks . 

People walk to a distance of say 100 Meters to collect their Letters. 

A person newly entering the neighborhood applies to CANADAPOST to get his alloted kiosk and Key for the same in his own neighborhood . A short walk to the concerned Pillar Letter  Box becomes a mandatory requirement. 

Manpower Shortage and Cost effectiveness makes this possible.

Even in India , in Metropolitan Apartment Complexes , Letters are dropped on the Ground Floor in similar Kiosks . I know of  Apartment Complexes  in Bangalore and Chennai  which have this facility. 

Agasthiarpatty though has our own  Postman Ramakrishnan riding around the place in his Bicycle to deliver the letters to individual Houses on a daily basis . Postman Ramakrishnan is thus more of a family man to each and every family in the area as he is the harbinger of all the news , good or bad .