A set of mailboxes in a file photograph. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
More than 700,000 rural Canada Post customers will no longer be able to tell if they have received mail by looking for the red flag on their mailboxes.
While some Canadians have relied on this method of knowing when they have received mail for decades, the federal postal company says the red flags on mailboxes are supposed to be used by customers to indicate to delivery agents that there is outgoing mail in the mailbox to be picked up.
