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Canada Post’s Moment Of Reckoning May Finally Be Here (www.readthemaple.com)

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Now is the time to draw inspiration from wherever we can, and stand with workers while they fight the employer-led race to the bottom.

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[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I agree that would work, till the next time they want more profit and then they'd cut the first part you mentioned to be less cloection days. Mail should be a government service not a business trying to increase profits

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There’s no profit to speak of. They’re losing billions of dollars. Those changes above would mean they lose less money, not become profitable.

Services provided can cost money without them turning them into profit-seeking companies. Why not have a mandate to use those surpluses to upgrade service or donate to charity or something?

What we should not be doing is writing blank cheques for services with declining demand.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Canada post changed from Crown service to being run as a private business though. That's when it turned to shit

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

No, it’s a Crown corporation. It’s protected by law from competition. It’s literally illegal to run a competing mail service as a private citizen / company.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Hmm, I was thinking 2013 era when they moved to the private style running of a business, I assumed they switched, because our service her sucked after that. Guy would drive ast our house to put a "sorry we missed you" tag in the community mailbox and then drive by our house on the way back out.

When the community mailbox was broken into and locks were broken, there was no method to contact CP to report it. They only had report a mail delivery failure from sender end, so I had to fake a delivery address to open a ticket with them

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Canada Post became a crown corporation in 1981. It attempted a restructuring between 2010-2017 where the duties of letter carriers were combined with those of mail service couriers. It backfired. There was a strike, a lockout, and Harper’s government forced postal workers back to work with binding arbitration. CP lost $253 million in 2011. Canada Post’s woes really began with the Internet which has caused worldwide mail volumes to plummet.

The law that made CP a crown corporation also established its government enforced monopoly on letter mail while parcel delivery remained a free market. Since then, the market price of parcels has plummeted while the price of letters has only gone up. As Canada Post has always relied on parcels to supplement its income, the falling market price for parcels has made it non-competitive in that area (except when delivering to PO Boxes, which courier services can’t do).