Canada Post’s latest contract offers to striking postal workers has many of the same terms as its “final offers” in May but removes a signing bonus and now has provisions related to the job cuts expected ahead.

The offers presented Friday come a little over a week after the federal government announced plans to transform the financially strapped service, including ending daily mail delivery, closing some rural post offices and moving almost all Canadian households to community mailboxes.

The roughly 55,000-member Canadian Union of Postal Workers said the decision was direct attack on workers as it promptly declared a countrywide strike.

Canada Post has supported the planned changes and its latest offer includes provisions to see it through the expected shrinking of the service, includin

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