Here's my observation, as someone who represents rural and remote communities.
You have Canada Post post offices in rural areas. Something happens to the post office—the postmaster quits or the postmaster passes away or the building burns down. Canada Post's offer to new postmasters is, frankly, not adequate to attract new people to the role, so when they don't get any applicants, they end up contracting out the service. It's a retail franchise model: They get a business and they pay the business a commission on parcels. When that fails—because the commission that Canada Post pays isn't adequate—the community ends up with a steel mailbox on the side of the road.
Does that ring true? Is that what we're seeing in rural Canada right now?