OTTAWA —The federal Liberal government announced Thursday it would be ending door-to-door mail delivery from Canada Post and lifting the moratorium on rural post office closures.

Procurement Minister Joël Lightbound announced the sweeping changes in an effort to set the Crown corporation, which has accumulated billions in consecutive losses, on a path toward sustainability.

“Canada Post is effectively insolvent, and it is facing an existential crisis.”

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The recommendations to lift the moratorium on the conversion to community mailboxes, relax the postal service’s delivery standards and remove the inability to close rural post offices were made in a report authored by William Kaplan, who was tapped to provide the government with

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