Some of our offices, which are known as a group office—primarily that's a single-person office in smaller communities—have a leasing allowance stipend that they receive on a monthly basis over the course of a year. A lot of times they find that leasing allowance doesn't support the full cost of operating the post office. Communities have banded together once they realize that for anything over and above, they do have an option with Canada Post to request to have that leasing allowance increased, but it's not always guaranteed. We've seen many turned down in areas that don't have other facilities they can operate in. What they end up doing is they speak with the landlord, and sometimes municipalities have banded together to try to reduce costs for those post offices to remain.
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