An essential gov service isn't a profit center: it's a charge.

Because targeting cost instead of service levels has worked out so well for healthcare.

Neoliberal solutions cause neoliberal problems.

Erm, if CP can't compete with Amazon while paying good union wages, as the article suggests, then perhaps we should make it very easy for Amazon workers to unionize. You know, the other way from race to the bottom.

Perhaps under the CUPW. 🤭

Conveniently timed just as contract negotiations are coming up.

Postal banking, more options for online shopping to combat amazon and shit. Alot we can do to make it profitable, not that it needs to be.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Canada Post is selling off its IT and logistics departments, a move business experts say is an essential first step in saving a Crown corporation that lost more than half a billion dollars in 2022.

"It was determined the current shared-service model was not providing the speed and agility needed to compete today and in the future," said a statement from Canada Post.

"The plan positions the company for growth in Canada's e-commerce market while delivering on its core mandate of providing reliable delivery of mail, packages and parcels to every Canadian address."

Postal Service's example and work with major logistics companies to cover "the last mile" — the final part of a package's journey, which accounts for more than half of delivery costs.

"CUPW has been advocating for a comprehensive plan which would work to ensure the future financial sustainability of Canada Post by expanding services," spokesperson Siân Griffiths wrote in an email.

But Nita Chhinzer, a human resources expert in downsizing and a professor at the University of Guelph, said Canada Post needs to focus on its core services.

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