OTTAWA, April 8, 2014 /CNW/ – Canada Post has shut down over 1700 rural post offices since the 1980s. A new survey of 1635 mayors, reeves and band chiefs, where a post office has been closed, documents the effects on communities. While some communities saw their federally run post office replaced with a franchise outlet, 53% of communities have no postal outlet of any kind. The closures of post …
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