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Editor:

Canadian Postmasters & Assistants Association (CPAA) is the union that represents postmasters and their assistants in rural Canada.

Recently Canada Post in B.C. and Yukon has proposed widespread hour cuts in many of our offices — cuts that cannot help but negatively impact your postal service by creating an immediate reduction in service levels and extended customer wait times, as well as taking wages out of your community.

Forty-four of B.C. and Yukon’s CPAA offices were given notice in the middle of December that they were among the first wave of hour cuts. These initial proposed cuts will affect 72 employees in B.C. and Yukon alone.

Aside from the fact that this was demoralizing news at this time of year, we at CPAA fully understand that this is merely the first assault on our offices.

These rural post offices are often the only federal presence in small communities. To keep the heart beating in rural Canada, please let the following people hear your voice: Rob Merrifield, Minister of State for Transport (responsible for Canada Post), Place de Ville, Tower C, 29th Floor, 330 Sparks Street, Ottawa, Ont. K1A 0N5; your local member of Parliament, your local MLA and the Canada Post Corporation, 2701 Riverside Dr., #N1210, Ottawa, Ont. K1V 1J7

Barbara Lincoln, president/CPAA, B.C. & Yukon