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[-] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca -5 points 2 days ago

It doesn't need to be profitable, but if it's literally burning billions of dollars a year, it's quite obviously not efficient nor a smart use of our capital.

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's net loss in 2024 of ~800million which isn't even a single billion. I think 20bucks a year on canada post is pretty reasonable.

E: Oh and most of that loss can be attributed to the previous strike.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If billions of dollars a year is a problem, saving $20 million is meaningless. If not 1.5B a year, how much do you think is appropriate to spend so that all Canadians have mail service? How did you come to that figure?

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Best I can find the government gave a $1 billion loan to Canada Post.

The toal expenditures in the 2024 budget was $538 billion.

This is having $500 in wallet and being concerned that the $1 you loaned to someone could have been spent better.

[-] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 0 points 18 hours ago
[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 hours ago

Maybe start somewhere that takes at least a whole 1% of the budget instead of what amounts to a rounding error.

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