Use your CANEX Canada Post retail outlet to mail your letters and parcels for free to military members currently deployed on overseas missions. Do not use Canada Post’s street mailboxes, like the one located across from the CANEX venue. Photos Jules Xavier/Shilo Stag

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For the 17th consecutive year, Canada Post will provide free regular parcel services for family and friends of deployed CAF/DND members.
This program will run from Oct. 11 to Jan. 23.
Parcels will be delivered free of charge from any Canada Post retail outlet to designated CAF Bases, and will then be forwarded through the CAF postal system to military members overseas.
Additionally, Canada Post will continue to provide free delivery of letters — under 500 grams — to deployed troops until Dec. 31, 2023.
This offer is restricted to those operations served by the following addresses: Halifax, Nova Scotia B3K 5X5; Belleville, Ontario K8N 5W6; and Victoria, BC, V9A 7N2.
To ensure the proper customs declaration forms and correct addressing information, all letters and parcels must be deposited at a Canada Post retail outlet. Mail deposited in street letter boxes will not be delivered.