OTTAWA - Door-to-door mail delivery will end for almost all Canadian households within the next decade, Public Works and Procurement Minister Joël Lightbound said Thursday as he ordered sweeping changes in an effort to make the Crown corporation financially viable.

Those changes also will include slowing down the frequency of mail delivery and shuttering some post offices.

Lightbound said the changes are meant to shore up Canada Post's finances adding that the corporation "needs to show a path to financial viability."

The minister said the federal government will accept all of the recommendations in the Industrial Inquiry Commission's report on Canada Post, which also called for the introduction of more community mailboxes.

"Canada Post is a national institution, older than our country

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