On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:36:35 -0800, "Udie" youdeetwothreethree@
victoriadotteecee.ca wrote:

Actually, postal codes with zeros do not always denote general delivery!
Mine is like that, and there are rural Green Boxes for most people. In the
case of the Green Boxes, the house address is tied to the box. The box
clusters are a few hundred feet apart. Anything sent to my house address,
goes to my nearby box. The actual box number is not part of my address.

Steve R.

In the case of both rural "green boxes" and "super boxes" it is simply
because Canada Post does not consider it worth while providing door to
door delivery. A nd there are "generally" no (or very few) general
delivery boxes in the "post offices" which are now franchised outlets
in convenience stores more often than not.
Both Rural Routes and general delivery usually have the Letter Zero
Letter number letter Zero postal codes, while the urban super boxes
GENERALLY have location specific postal codes - often a separate code
for each super box. The postal code determines which package the mail
goes in, and which carrier picks it up to deliver.

This guy's postal code IS a general delivery which covers a wide area
south east of Peterborough Ontario, including the "Islands of the
Trent" first nation.


"Brian Lawson" wrote in message
.. .
Hey Regis,

You have not stated "where" you sent the money. Hiawatha is not the
best known place in Ontario, but Canada Post would have found the
closest place with a name like that to the postal code you used.
Microsoft Streets & Trips gives three suggestions, all in the
Peterborough to Ottawa area. Do you have the actual postal code (ZIP)
for the as mailed address? For instance, I recently lived in an area
of Windsor called Forest Glade. If you had written to me with that
local colloquial name as the "city", it would not have gotten to me
unless the postal code was given too. One thing to note though, that
if any postal code in Canada has a "0" (numeral zero, not the alphabet
letter 'oh') as the second and last digit, it is a "general delivery"
type code. Mine is N0P 1C0, and means I have to actually go to the
local post office to pick up my mail, as there is no delivery service
here in this town.

Too late, but take care.

Brian Lawson,
Bothwell, Ontario.