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If Canada Post thought it was going to turn the greater Montreal area into one giant community mailbox, well, it should think again.

The ambitious but much-criticized project to replace door-to-door-delivery with super mailboxes got a firm “Return To Sender” message Thursday from four Quebec cities, including the Big Three of Montreal, Laval and Longueuil.

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Westmount, where Mayor Peter Trent has been a vocal foe of the conversion plan from the beginning, rounds out the foursome that joins the Canadian Union of Postal Workers’ lawsuit against the federal Crown corporation.

All four respective mayors — Montreal’s Denis Coderre, Laval’s Marc Demers, Longueuil’s Caroline St-Hilaire and Trent — stepped to the microphone and spun similar tales of how dealing with Canada Post was a one-way street despite public platitudes to the contrary.

But it was Coderre, in fighting form, who took the Crown corporation to task for its cavalier approach and questioned the very raison d’être of its five-year conversion plan that was apparently mandated to deal with declining mail volumes and shifting consumer trends (i.e. less snail mail because of more 21st century digital mail).