Fewer than 500 of the country's 14,000 postal outlets are owned directly by Post Office Ltd, which runs the network.
The plans also calls for up to 8,000 postal workers to be cut from a total staff of about 55,000, a 35% leap to C$1 in the price of a stamp and the use of more technology and more franchise postal outlets.
The drop-box deal is nonexclusive, and other courier services will have the right to make pickups from the nation's 38,000 postal outlets.
LDUs ending in zero correspond to postal facilities, from post offices and small franchised retail postal outlets all the way up to sortation plants.
The study was conducted in clinics on-site in postal outlets.
This sampling frame is stratified into 124 geographical locations on the basis of postal addresses and 109 outlet types (e.g. social club, 'branded' public house, hotel etc).
No media outlet claimed the postal worker threw away the pamphlets for political reasons, but it was not outside the realm of possibility.
Using the address postal code, a CCP or alcohol outlet was assigned to a given Toronto neighbourhood.
But even as postal officials agreed not to eliminate outlets in some towns and cities, they did leave open the option to sell valuable properties and relocate services.
The postal network has been extended, with new outlets in supermarkets and longer opening hours.
But Mr. Rolando, the president of the letter carriers' union, said it would make more sense to view the postal service's vast network of retail outlets, letter carriers and vehicles as an asset — and one that might be used to do more than deliver mail.
