On Canada Day, I was walking along Sparks Street, checking it out after not having being in this…read morearea for a good decade, at least. I saw Canada Post. Two instances of it. Practically across from each other. Did I need to book an eye test immediately? Maybe. I needed to dig into this weirdness some more. We can't have a confused tourist, let alone confused me. 59 Sparks Street is this Yelp listing. When you look at the building, it has Post Office above the main entrance, with two lion statues on either side of it. It looked like there were other businesses in this building, but nothing that screamed post office. I had to do a bit of digging. This location was known as Ottawa Postal Station B. It's considered a cultural heritage site as of September 2018. I can't tell what this building's purpose is now. What I do know is that the current full-service Canada Post across the street at 58 Sparks Street replaces services from 59 Sparks Street. This post office at 58 Sparks Street was formerly the Ottawa Electric Building. It has been around since 1926 by Albert Ewan, an architect for the Ottawa Electric Company. This company was both an electrical utility company. It also ran electric streetcars back in the day. Fascinating! So, looking at the reviews for this listing, my guess is that everyone is commenting on the services back in 2019 and earlier at the old post office. For current Canada Post services, such as mailing a parcel and renting a mailbox, you want to go across the street to the Canada Post with the Ottawa Electric Building name above the red Canada Post sign. (255)

Yet again Canada Post is completely useless. No excuses for this. Zero customer service…read more Guess it pays to have a monopoly over most of the shipping in Canada.

Been dealing with this post office for over a decade. And things are just getting worse. Whenever…read moreI ship something there is some kind of insurance or billing error. The lines are pretty long. And the employees NEVER take it upon themselves to fix their co-workers mistakes, they always ask you to call HQ. Additionally they sometimes can not find packages delivered to you and you have to do extra leg work.

Canada Post does far better than many shipping companies, though they could be better. Its hard to…read moresay if privatization would make them worse or better. I prefer them to Fedex, the customer service is better, they are more reliable, while Fedex is insane and impossible to deal with

I come here pretty often to drop off shopping returns and I love how simple it is…read more The queue is typically very short and has quick service to scan you're our items and send it off. The biggest benefit of dropping it off at this location over a Canada post office in a shoppers for instance is how quickly the items get picked up to be delivered.