38% support some privatization of Canada Post
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38% of people are brain dead.
More like indoctrinated into self-harming beliefs. No one is born with an opinion or understanding on privatization. š„¹
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Have you come across any measurements on this?
According to Oxford long covid averages a 10 point IQ drop, other sources say mild covid resulted in a 3-6 point drop.
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Interesting, if a bit tangential, that 72% support reducing delivery frequency while Canada Post is trying to increase delivery frequency by doing weekend deliveries.
Personally, I donāt understand how many things can be so urgent that itās profitable to deliver as frequently as possible. Surely a single specialised courier for critically fast deliveries (e.g. life saving medicine) would entirely saturate the market.
Such a dumb and badly run country.
Every TTC subway stop should have a post office in it. The TTC should be run 24hrs a day. You should be able to pick up your package at the post office within the TTC subway stop easily.
Post offices within the GTHA really should be walking distance for most people. Go pick your package up somewhere close by, open 24hrs.
Putting post offices in Shoppers Drug Mart isnāt too bad, but it would be better if they where in 24hr donought shops.
We need to use community postal boxes more.
We need traffic cameras to automatically ticket couriers that block traffic.
We need to get ride of this āindependent contractorā nonsense. Itās a scam.
But for this to happen the Fed/Prov/City and Crown Corps all need to work togetherā¦so itāll never happen.
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Isnāt that about the same percentage that vote conservative every election?
The original article contains some statistics by party, and yes, there is a correlation between voting Conservative and not wanting to fund Canada Post. Other correlations: rural people tend to support funding Canada Post, people who seldom or never receive mail tend not to. (The rural and Conservative tendencies are going to pull in opposite directions for a fair number of people.) I wouldnāt be surprised to discover that thereās also a correlation with income brackets, but they donāt seem to have collected that information.
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Lately I think the number of low IQ people has increased from ~15% to 30%
Since COVID people have been significantly stupider.
I think itās also made much more apparent when that demographic that had no interest in computers were forced to be chronically online due to the lockdowns and quickly found the anti-vaxx groups, and suddenly felt like their opinion matters and that everyone is an expert if they do a little bit of āresearchā.
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According to Oxford long covid averages a 10 point IQ drop, other sources say mild covid resulted in a 3-6 point drop.
Interesting. We should look at country IQ averages in the coming years. Would be interesting to see how these changes affect it. A lot of people had mild illness.
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The original article contains some statistics by party, and yes, there is a correlation between voting Conservative and not wanting to fund Canada Post. Other correlations: rural people tend to support funding Canada Post, people who seldom or never receive mail tend not to. (The rural and Conservative tendencies are going to pull in opposite directions for a fair number of people.) I wouldnāt be surprised to discover that thereās also a correlation with income brackets, but they donāt seem to have collected that information.
In case anyone wants to see some of the breakdown.
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Reduce mail to 3 days a week.
TBH, if it avoids privatization and saves money, Iād be happy getting mail even once a week. Nothing we get by mail is so urgent that a few extra days will destroy lives.
In cases where something is needed urgently, thereās courier, express mail, etc. as premium options. Regular āsnail mailā isnāt meant to be fast.
Adding to the above, keep in mind that courier and express mail are useless if you live in small towns with distance to the nearest large city.
Iāve had express mail take longer to get to me than regular mail does simply because thatās how the system is set up.
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Itās nice to see that we no longer trust privatization as a the magic wand that solves public institution problems.
That said I think the 52% support for non-union gig work in Canada Post is indicative of the mindset that needs shifting if Canada is to change course in a way that makes most people better off long term.
Source: https://angusreid.org/canada-post-privatization-strike-service-disruption-vote-union/
hear me out - irl mails should be stay in the past. replace it with courier delivery
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Itās nice to see that we no longer trust privatization as a the magic wand that solves public institution problems.
That said I think the 52% support for non-union gig work in Canada Post is indicative of the mindset that needs shifting if Canada is to change course in a way that makes most people better off long term.
Source: https://angusreid.org/canada-post-privatization-strike-service-disruption-vote-union/
38 percent should go fuck themselves!
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Lately I think the number of low IQ people has increased from ~15% to 30%
Since COVID people have been significantly stupider.
Canada is being heavily targeted by Cambridge Analytica (whatever theyāre called now), now that theyāve achieved total domination in the US. Please be careful! It starts with facebook and talk radio and gets very bad very quickly.
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Reduce mail to 3 days a week.
TBH, if it avoids privatization and saves money, Iād be happy getting mail even once a week. Nothing we get by mail is so urgent that a few extra days will destroy lives.
In cases where something is needed urgently, thereās courier, express mail, etc. as premium options. Regular āsnail mailā isnāt meant to be fast.
When public services are kneecapped to be worse than their private equivalent then people stop using them and then they turn private.
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Canada is being heavily targeted by Cambridge Analytica (whatever theyāre called now), now that theyāve achieved total domination in the US. Please be careful! It starts with facebook and talk radio and gets very bad very quickly.
Thatās why Iām on Lemmy. If Iām going to be indoctrinated. At least, I become even more a solid leftist.
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Adding to the above, keep in mind that courier and express mail are useless if you live in small towns with distance to the nearest large city.
Iāve had express mail take longer to get to me than regular mail does simply because thatās how the system is set up.
Iād have no problem if urban mail took a week, while resources were used to make sure that rural service was more timely. But I also donāt know how much is spent on rural delivery vs. urban mail. I have a friend who works for Canada Post, maybe I should ask. LOL
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Reduce mail to 3 days a week.
TBH, if it avoids privatization and saves money, Iād be happy getting mail even once a week. Nothing we get by mail is so urgent that a few extra days will destroy lives.
In cases where something is needed urgently, thereās courier, express mail, etc. as premium options. Regular āsnail mailā isnāt meant to be fast.
UK enters the chat with mail delivery 2x a day
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Reduce mail to 3 days a week.
TBH, if it avoids privatization and saves money, Iād be happy getting mail even once a week. Nothing we get by mail is so urgent that a few extra days will destroy lives.
In cases where something is needed urgently, thereās courier, express mail, etc. as premium options. Regular āsnail mailā isnāt meant to be fast.
Well thatās the thing, in some places snail mail is fast. UK for instance has places with delivery twice a day, meaning you can ācourierā items across a city same day. The post offices in Canada turned to crap as soon as they started hacking the service down.
Our neighbourhood changed to community mailbox, the CP truck would pass my house and drop a notice āsorry we missed youā into the community mailbox because the package wouldnāt fit in the mailbox. And then leave and pass my house again. Not really a mail delivery service more of a notification for pickup service.
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Well thatās the thing, in some places snail mail is fast. UK for instance has places with delivery twice a day, meaning you can ācourierā items across a city same day. The post offices in Canada turned to crap as soon as they started hacking the service down.
Our neighbourhood changed to community mailbox, the CP truck would pass my house and drop a notice āsorry we missed youā into the community mailbox because the package wouldnāt fit in the mailbox. And then leave and pass my house again. Not really a mail delivery service more of a notification for pickup service.
UK for instance has places with delivery twice a day
WTF?? What mail do you guys get that you need it delivered twice a day???
I might get something āimportantā (i.e. from the government) maybe a few times a month. Bills are nearly all electronic. A few packages are delivered by Canada Post, but none are urgent enough to need even a daily delivery service.
Of course, Iām only speaking for myself. Maybe there are people who still get a ton of mail, but I canāt imagine itās the majority.
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hear me out - irl mails should be stay in the past. replace it with courier delivery
Have you not been paying attention?
Private service becomes popular by undercutting existing services -> existing services go away -> popular service jacks up the price and reduces feature set. Get ready to pay by the milligram for your fucking temu order.
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UK for instance has places with delivery twice a day
WTF?? What mail do you guys get that you need it delivered twice a day???
I might get something āimportantā (i.e. from the government) maybe a few times a month. Bills are nearly all electronic. A few packages are delivered by Canada Post, but none are urgent enough to need even a daily delivery service.
Of course, Iām only speaking for myself. Maybe there are people who still get a ton of mail, but I canāt imagine itās the majority.
My bad, the second delivery became a cleanup delivery to deliver what they forgot or didnāt get in in the morning.
True actual multi delivery stopped in the 50s.
The UK policy is six days a week and as expedient as possible. Iām sure that is changing slowly -
Itās nice to see that we no longer trust privatization as a the magic wand that solves public institution problems.
That said I think the 52% support for non-union gig work in Canada Post is indicative of the mindset that needs shifting if Canada is to change course in a way that makes most people better off long term.
Source: https://angusreid.org/canada-post-privatization-strike-service-disruption-vote-union/
Fuck that biased titleā¦
