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It doesn’t take long for an ex-mayor’s legacy to get covered over with concrete.

The famous slab that Denis Coderre jackhammered in Pierrefonds while he was mayor of Montreal in 2015 is back, or at least Canada Post has replaced the one he destroyed in his protest against the postal service’s unpopular plan to replace home delivery with community mailboxes.

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Coderre donned a hard hat and fluorescent orange and yellow vest and invited television news crews to film him jackhammering the slab at the entrance to L’Anse-à-l’Orme nature park off Gouin Blvd. W. in August 2015.

Canada Post later halted the installation of more community mailboxes under pressure from the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The shift away from home delivery had been initiated as a cost-saving measure under the previous Conservative government.

However, this past October, the Crown corporation built a new concrete base and installed a community mailbox at the exit of L’Anse-à-l’Orme. It’s across from the spot where Coderre destroyed the concrete base three years ago.