Canada Post has announced on its website that its epost program would be discontinued by December 2022.
The program, first launched in 1999, was intended to be a historic way to share electronic documents, but was overtaken, mainly by Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Canada Post said in 2010 that it would be a revenue source to help boost declining revenue in door-to-door delivered letter mail.
“It does not matter which way you look at it, the letter business is a declining business,” Moya Green, then-CEO of Canada Post, testified during hearings of the Senate national finance committee in 2010.
“In a declining business you have to do other things,” she said. “You must also grow the business. If you do not grow the business in a new direction the business will die.”…