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savemoresaveoften said
Yes they send a email daily what’s arriving. I have the CanadaPost app and I see I can also sign in there for Mymail but I didn’t. Never use the app for that purpose yet, only for parcel tracking so far.
  

So I hadn't received any email notifications to my email yet, but I received 3 pieces of mail yesterday so I went into the app through my desktop emulator and saw that receiving an email notification was not selected. It's bizarre, because I am sure I went through the options and selected that as it's the only reason I'm using mymail and it was the first option I checked, because I already had looked at it. lol!

More concerning is the app shows I should have received 8 pieces of mail this week. I've received 3. 4 of the mail I have not received I do not know who the sender is and maybe the mail person tossed them because I don't want unsolicited mail (I would not think that's the practice), but one is from a financial institution I have a credit card with. I'm not expecting a new card so not sure what it was. The person delivering mail in our neighbourhood is imo negligent to the point of criminality if their success rate is less than 50% and the lovely neighbours are proving even more lovely as they are keeping even more of our mail than I thought.

Against my preference, but due to the unreliability of the mail deliverer, I've changed everything to digital delivery I can over time as canada post does not care and takes no actions upon my complaints, but it's not possible for everyone I deal with. Mymail could prove very useful when expecting important mail as just 2 days of using it shows I'm only receiving 37.5% of the mail directed to me.

I hope other people are not experiencing what I am experiencing with my mail not ending up delivered to me 72.8% of the time, but given it's T5 season people may want to use mymail as a form of tracking sensitive mail to ensure they are actually receiving it. (I hope that calms RetirED)

This reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Newman doesn't get the transfer to Hawaii because Jerry delivers the mail for him and successfully delivers more than 50% of the mail.

Does your junk mail show up in your mymail notifications? I thought it would only show mail addressed to you, but I see on the website they actually notify you about more things than that:

What types of mail are included in MyMail?

Through MyMail, we’ll update you about incoming LettermailTM, Personalized MailTM and Neighbourhood MailTM.

savemoresaveoften said If i remembered correctly, when mine was set up, they asked me a second time again to setup, which I also did.

I did set up My Mail app once. It did verify me through app and showed incoming flyer (as mail).
Next day it wanted to verify me again asking me to bring a code shown on app to post office with any ID showing my name/address. They mentioned ALL info regarding that ID will be recorded.
Well, I DO NOT want Can Post to record and KEEP any info of my IDs. Security incidents occur more and and more the days and I do not want hackers to have any info of my ID in their hands.
I cannot stop them hacking banks, government, utilities but at least I can minimize chances for another breach.
Enough experience with Peoples Trust when after breach they put a flag on my credit file for few years without asking me first.

Bottom line is I deleted Can post app as I see no benefit of having it. I know exactly which mail is coming and approximate time frame and walking to mail box is not a big deal.

I just downloaded my T5 from WealthOne

My T1 tax package arrived yesterday (Feb 7 Wednesday). The buggers have removed much of the line-by-line guidance and told us to go on-line for details! They also say we should consult the previous year's obsolete guidance, despite the many changes to our returns over the last two years.

Hah! And if we do, we'll likely soon be marked for no-actual-mail status as Telus did some years ago until the Federal Government leaned on them. (They called it the pay-to-pay scandal back then, when Telus stopped sending paper bills and demanded a fee for the service.)

I'll keep calling the CRA for info when I need it. If they don't see a need, they won't provide it.

The E-mail notification is not of any interest to me, phrank. If I don't get my mail, I call the sender. If MyMail didn't tell me my mail was on the way, I'd STILL need to call.

And if our postal employees can't properly deliver our mail, what makes anyone think they'd properly enter the MyMail information?

phrank said
The best solution for canada post imo is going digital when possible and using other companies for delivery of packages like UPS or FedEX.  

Or Purolator which CP owns. If you look at CP's annual reports, you will see that the 'letter mail' portion of the business flows more and more red ink each year. Volumes are declining and yet more and more postal addresses are added to the postal system. It is mostly the Purolator part of the business that keeps CP afloat, and to a lesser extent, the parcel business. Something is going to have to 'give' in the not too distant future on letter mail and direct mail (flyers, mass distribution).

My first T5 has just arrived through the door - Home Trust is the winner!

I won't be reporting all of them to keep some privacy about my holdings.

phrank: Those are a lot of "ifs" in your praise of those Canada Post scanners!

RetirEd said
My first T5 has just arrived through the door - Home Trust is the winner!

I won't be reporting all of them to keep some privacy about my holdings.

phrank: Those are a lot of "ifs" in your praise of those Canada Post scanners!  

Dealing with properly setup technology of any sort; whether it's a stone wheel or AI; involves a whole lot less ifs than dealing with more humans. The humans in this particular equation can't even match up a number on an envelope to a number on a box reliably.

Almost all the food in stores is grown, harvested, distributed and sold using scanning technology. Even if you somehow entered all your groceries manually into the computer charging you for your items, you can't avoid the same scanning tech used at every other step unless you live off grid and grow/raise all your food yourself.

The t5 you received in the mail would not have arrived without scanning technology functioning correctly.

The world we live in is not possible without scanning technology, so I'll go ahead and use it when it benefits me and not worry about the ifs of scanning. I know I'll never change your mind and I don't care. I want to hear other peoples points of view which don't match up with mine so I can improve my own opinions and make them closer to facts. I got tired of the constant nit picking of any opinion I would post to share my points of view so I try to put imo or words like if to prevent people from being offended by the sharing of my experiences.

If you want my true sentiment, I think anyone who doesn't prefer scanning tech vs more humans doesn't really understand what they are talking about and is one of those people who blames tech for issues caused by the very humans they are choosing to use.

phrank, I have lots of appreciation for scanning technology, particularly the robust bar codes (as opposed to the more complex QR variety). But the postal delivery staff also use bar codes, so I don't see that much difference between mail-route and notification error rates. Certainly not enough for us to keep arguing about it.