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“Yesterday was another hard day,”: Local CUPW 812 president fuming over proposed Canada Post reforms

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Other measures announced by Ottawa includes lifting the moratorium on community mailbox conversions, ending a 1994 freeze on rural post office closures, altering delivery standards, and speeding up the process for stamp rate increases. According to the postal company, letter mail has been on the decline for nearly two decades after reaching its peak of 5.5 billion letter in 2006 to two billion last year with further declines also projected.

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