The poll comes in response to a petition, which more than 600 people signed, calling for mail to be delivered to people's homes.

Petitioner Kristy Harris urged people to return their ballots, regardless of how they intended to vote.

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She believed a 2017 poll was unsuccessful because of how many ballots weren't returned.

Mrs Harris understood the overwhelming majority of people who returned their ballots in 2017 voted in favour of street mail delivery.

Huntly residents in areas that do not already receive street mail delivery are expected to get their ballots from February 22.

Mrs Harris understood the ballots would be delivered direct to those residents' homes.

"Any votes not returned will be counted as a no mail vote," Mrs Harris said.

She urged people to return their ballots so Australia Post had a clearer idea of the community's wishes.

Poll participants will have until 5pm on March 19 to respond.

More than 50 per cent of eligible residents have to vote in favour of expanding the street mail delivery service for Australia Post to make a change.

"We know the important role Australia Post plays in communities, and where there is wide support for a change in mail delivery arrangements, we can review the situation to determine if a change is viable," an Australia Post spokesperson said.

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Mrs Harris was pleased with the community's response to her petition, which launched last month.

"A lot of people want it, and a lot of people aren't fussed either way but are happy for other people to be able to have it," she said.

She said a small number of the people she had encountered were opposed to the suburb's street mail delivery service being expanded.

Some Huntly residents get mail delivered to their street, and others do not.

Those who live outside of the street mail delivery area have the option of renting a PO Box or collecting their letters and parcels from the Huntly Post Office.

Huntly is one of Bendigo's fastest growing suburbs, with hundreds of houses either planned or being built in the area.

Residents have been calling for the street mail delivery service to be expanded for years.

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Member for Bendigo Lisa Chesters was critical of the process regional residents had to endure to get mail delivered to their homes.

"This is a ridiculous, convoluted, high bar that Huntly residents have to go through just to get what the rest of us get, and that's roadside delivery of our mail," Ms Chesters said.

She believed suburbs in growth corridors should automatically qualify for street mail delivery once they reached a certain number of households.

Unless Australia Post's process changed, Ms Chesters expected residents in a number of growing Bendigo suburbs would have to vote to get mail delivered to their streets.

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