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Canada Post Corporation, known more simply as Canada Post ((フランス語:Société canadienne des postes), or simply ''Postes Canada''), is the crown corporation which functions as the country's primary postal operator. Originally known as Royal Mail Canada (the operating name of the Post Office Department of the Canadian government founded in 1867), rebranding was done to the “Canada Post” name in the late 1960s, even though it had not yet been separated from the government. On October 16, 1981, the Canada Post Corporation Act came into effect. That abolished the Post Office Department and created the present day Crown corporation which provides postal service. The act purported to set a new direction for the postal service, aiming to create a more reliable service and to ensure the postal service's financial security and independence.〔(Canada Post Corporation Act ) Part I Section 5〕 Canada Post provided service to 15.7 million addresses and delivered more than 9 billion items in 2014. Delivery takes place via traditional "to the door" service by 15,000 letter carriers, supplemented by a 7,000 vehicle fleet in rural and suburban areas, and truck delivery of parcels. In 2004, an estimated 65% of overall expenses were due to salaries and benefits.〔(Canada Post Annual Report 2004 )〕 There are 6,500 post offices across the country, a combination of corporate offices and dealerships that are operated by private retailers in conjunction with a host retail business, such as a drugstore. In terms of area serviced, Canada Post delivers to a larger area than the postal service of any other nation, including Russia (where service in Siberia is limited largely to communities along the railway). As of 2004, nearly 843,000 rural Canadian customers received residential mail delivery services. The Corporation processed 9.7 billion pieces during year 2012. Consolidated revenue from operations reached $7.5 billion and consolidated net income totaled $94 million. Canada Post operates as a group of companies called The Canada Post Group. It employs 71,000 full and part-time employees to deliver a full range of delivery, logistics and fulfillment services to customers. The Corporation holds an interest in Purolator Courier, Innovapost, Progistix-Solutions and Canada Post International Limited. In 2000, Canada Post created a company called Epost, allowed customers to receive their bill online for free (in 2007, Epost was absorbed into Canada Post). ''Canada Post'' ''(French: Postes Canada)'' is the Federal Identity Program name. The legal name is ''Canada Post Corporation'' in English and ''Société canadienne des postes'' in French. During the late 1980s and much of the 1990s, the short forms used in the corporation's logo were "Mail" (English) and "Poste" (French), rendered as "Mail Poste" in English Canada, and "Poste Mail" in Quebec,〔(MAIL POSTE & DESIGN trademark (application no. 0577188) ), Canadian Intellectual Property Office, accessed 23 May 2010〕 although English-language advertising also still referred to the corporation as "Canada Post". ==History== On August 3, 1527 in St. John's, Newfoundland, the first known letter was sent from present day Canada.〔Paul O'Neill (2003) ''The Oldest City, The Story of St. John's, Newfoundland'' (p. 116) ISBN 0-9730271-2-6〕 While in St. John's, John Rut wrote a letter to King Henry VIII about his findings and planned voyage. Mail delivery within Canada first started in 1693 when the Portuguese born Pedro da Silva was paid to deliver mail between Quebec City and Montreal. Official postal services began in 1775, under the control of the British Government up to 1851. The first postage stamp (designed by Sir Sandford Fleming) went into circulation in Canada that same year. It was not until 1867 when the newly formed Dominion of Canada created the Post Office Department as a federal government department (The ''Act for the Regulation of the Postal Service'') headed by a Cabinet minister, the Postmaster General of Canada. The Act took effect April 1, 1868, providing uniform postal service throughout the newly established country. The Canadian post office was designed around the British service as created by Sir Rowland Hill, who introduced the concept of charging mail by weight and not destination along with creating the concept of the postage stamp. Prior to rural mail delivery, many Canadians living outside major cities and towns had little communication with the outside world. On 10 October 1908, the first free rural mail delivery service was instituted in Canada.〔()〕 The extension of residential mail delivery services to all rural Canadian residents was a major achievement for the Post Office Department. The Post Office Department was an early pioneer of airmail delivery, with the first airmail flight taking place on June 24, 1918, carrying mail from Montreal to Toronto. A modern plaque at the site of Leaside Aerodrome reads: "At 10:12 a.m. on June 24, 1918, Captain Brian Peck of the Royal Air Force and mechanic Corporal C.W. Mathers took off from the Bois Franc Polo Grounds in Montreal in a JN-4 Curtiss two-seater airplane. They had with them the first bag of mail to be delivered by air in Canada. Wind and rain buffetted the small plane and forced it to make refuelling stops at Kingston and Deseronto. Finally, at 4:55 p.m., Peck and Mathers landed at the Leaside Aerodrome (immediately southwest of here). The flight had been arranged by a civilian organization, the Aerial League of the British Empire, to demonstrate that aviation was the way of the future."〔http://www.torontoplaques.com/Pages_ABC/Canadas_First_Air_Mail.html〕 A regular air express service began in 1928. The 1970s was a tough decade for the Post Office, with major strikes combined with annual deficits that had hit $600 million by 1981. This state of affairs made politicians want to rethink their strategy for the federal department. It resulted in two years of public debate and input into the future of mail delivery in Canada. The government sought to give the post office more autonomy, in order to make it more commercially viable and to compete against the new threat of private courier services. On October 16, 1981, the Federal Parliament passed the "Canada Post Corporation Act",〔http://www.laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-10/〕 which transformed Canada Post into a Crown corporation to create the ''Canada Post Corporation (CPC)''. The legislation also includes a measure that legally guarantees basic postal service to all Canadians. It stipulates that all Canadians have the right to expect mail delivery, regardless of where they live. Several historical sites related to the history of the Post Office Department of Canada can be visited today. In Ontario, the first Toronto Post Office is still in operation. The site of the Air Canada Centre was once the Canada Post Delivery Building. Also notable are the (Vancouver Main Post Office ) and the (Dawson, Yukon, Post Office ), a National Historic Site of Canada. In Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia, a (nineteenth-century lighthouse ) acts as a seasonal post office for the tiny coastal community. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Canada Post」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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