Opinion | The case for saving Canada Post door-to-door delivery — for the good of society
The idea that Canada Post could do more than deliver mail isn’t new.
Projects like Toronto’s Station K, just north of Eglinton Ave. W., on Yonge St., were once held up as glimpses of the future — a reimagined post office that could function as a retail destination, a civic access point, even a symbol of renewal for a declining institution.
It proved a short-lived experiment.
In retrospect, the royal cipher above the entrance, for Edward VIII, the short-reigning king who abdicated to marry Wallis Simpson, feels like an oddly fitting omen.
That tension between ambition and retrenchment is still playing out.
