I would like to mention two things.
I will give you, as an example, a situation that has happened in the past and is going on now in Gaspé. A post office was operating well and there were no financial difficulties. Two blocks away, there was a pharmacy in which a postal counter was opened. Bit by bit, the profit was siphoned off. Then the Canada Post post office was told that no money was coming in. That is an example. Sometimes, the post offices are together in the same town for years before the transfer is made.
Sometimes, the Canada Post post office makes cuts in personnel, whether among employees or clerks, or even worse, no one works from noon to 2:00 p.m., and the post office itself will direct people to the pharmacy for certain services. At a certain point, the Canada Post post office closes its doors. That is the conclusion.
The other thing you have to know is that the clerks who work in a Canada Post post office take intensive training for two to three weeks. That take training on the computer system, for example. In addition, they take a battery of tests to ensure the security of the mail. To work at Canada Post, you obviously have to have a clean record, which is not the case at the postal counters. When they are hired, these workers take a few days' training, then they start working. I do not want to denigrate their work. However, clearly, not as much resources are invested to train pharmacy employees in postal work as is done within Canada Post post offices.
I do not know whether that answers your question.