Innovapost

Canada Post Corporation

Type	Crown corporation
Industry	Postal Service, Courier
Founded	July 1, 1867
Headquarters	2701 Riverside Drive Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0B1
Key people	Deepak Chopra, (president & CEO since February 1, 2011) Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Public Services and Procurement Vacant, Chairperson of the Board
Products	Courier express services Freight forwarding services Logistics services
Number of employees	64,000
Subsidiaries	Purolator Inc. (91%)
Website	www.canadapost.ca

Canada Post Corporation, known more simply as Canada Post (French: Société Canadienne des Postes, or simply Postes Canada), is a 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. This abolished the Post Office Department and created the present day Crown corporation which provides postal service. The act aimed to set a new direction for the postal service by ensuring the postal service's financial security and independence.

Canada Post provided service to more than 16 million addresses and delivered nearly 8.4 billion items in 2016 and consolidated revenue from operations reached $7.88 billion. Since reorganization in 2013-2014, Canada Post ceased delivering mail to residential addresses .

Canada Post operates as a group of companies called The Canada Post Group. It employs approximately 64,000 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 Programme 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, although English-language advertising also still referred to the corporation as "Canada Post".