The Mayor of Warwick Township believes a solution will be reached with Canada Post by the end of this year.
Mayor Todd Case said their meeting with Canada Post officials at the Rural Ontario Municipal Association [ROMA] conference was productive and positive.
"I do think there's a solution that can be had here," said Case. "Our obvious problem is having letters, cheques, returned back to the sender and folks here in our community not getting their mail, and sometimes the proper postal code is even on a parcel that's been returned. So, it's been an issue that's been ongoing here for quite a few years now and it's even gotten worse in the last little bit."
He believes the issues will be rectified in the next ten to twelve months.
"They seem to think that they can find a solution or we can go back to just plain addressing and utilizing the postal boxes at the same time."
An online petition, launched by residents asking Canada Post to drop the requirement, received close to 200 signatures before it closed.
Case said he and the municipal staff have fielded a lot of complaints too.
"We have had an awful lot of our residents contact the municipal office. Canada Post has had residents contact them directly. So, it is a major issue. When we think about a small business waiting on a cheque, and the cheque doesn't show up, and they have to go searching, and go through the system, and call back the vendor they're dealing with, only to find the cheque was sent out, and obviously got to our facility and was sent back, that is an issue and it really causes an awful lot of grief."