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Canada Post could start charging annual fees for door-to-door delivery, resume its push to community mail boxes, or distribute legalized marijuana, but the troubled Crown corporation won’t be financially “self-sustaining” over the next decade unless it deals with its looming pension crisis.

So says a task force that’s been looking at options for the future of the nation’s postal service.

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The four-member group has written a discussion paper that examines numerous options for Canada Post. It is meant to inform the House of Commons government operations committee as it begins cross-country hearings this month to hear what Canadians want and need from their national postal service.

The paper, the first phase of the Liberals’ Canada Post review, is expected to be publicly released this week, but details have been obtained in advance by the Citizen.

Canada Post faces huge changes. Its costs are growing faster than its revenues. The options looked at by the task force are only that — options, not recommendations — but they are meant to provide possible ways forward by cutting costs, boosting revenues and improving the quality of services.