Montreal takes Canada Post to court over community mailboxes

Montreal is taking its fight for home mail deliveryto a new level bytaking CanadaPost to court.

The city will be piggybacking on a current case launched by groups representing seniors, people with disabilities andpostal employees.

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Montreal has come outagainst community boxes and has organized acommittee to discuss the issues and urgethe federal crown corporationto stop its initiative.

Politicians on the island are calling for a moratorium and are asking leaders of the federal Liberals and NDP to openly oppose the plan.

"It is completely improvised. And it might work in the far-flungreaches whereyou have such a low density ofpopulation that you might be able to put them in,as they have across Canada," said WestmountMayor Peter Trent.

"But theminuteyou talk about a place with a dense developed area, it makes no sense."

Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre is calling for a study on the economic impact of losing letter carriers.

He said that the community mailboxes already installed on the west and north of the island are a "divide and conquer" strategy.