Canada Post workers on nationwide strike after government demands reforms
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What is getting so lost in all this social media outrage, is no one is proposing the total ending of mail delivery here. It’s still going to occur, just with some adjustments coming to make the service less of a capital burner, and maybe more of a service that’s matched to the reality of a modern age. It doesn’t make much sense to me that everyone is so opposed to this. Ol’ Grise Fiord is going to still receive their mail under this new proposed system. Well I mean they were until the postal union led their employees off the job once again for the umpteenth time.
I’m by no means against reduction or modification of service to match the reality of less mail being sent and delivered. Reduction of service and tax funding are not mutually exclusive.
But a legal mandate to serve all Canadians and a mandate for “solvency” based solely on postage are mutually exclusive in a country as geographically large as Canada with all our small, rural and remote (i.e. Unprofitable) communities.
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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.
It has to start somewhere.
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It has to start somewhere.
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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Are you an idiot? Canada has no unlimited money . Canada will keep increasing the military defense while reducing the quality of all the services
Apparently I am, because I can’t parse that comment.
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Nice one community mailboxes are close to the house. And most people already use them. So why should a select few get special treatment.
Exactly, I have had door to door and it is less secure and unnecessary. I’m fine with having the same level of service as the other 75% of Canadians.
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We all need to set fire to billions of dollars a year…
Funding Canada Post is less than 1% of the government’s budget. This is not the place to focus on cutting costs.
You should be returning to a desk to pick up such an important document, and providing proper ID to a properly trained individual to receive such a thing, in a controlled environment.
How much is that going to cost? The amount of wasted money and man hours to do that justifies the cost of Canada Post.
It would probably cost quite a bit, but would it cost as much as people with white gloves going door to door? A few people at a desk for 8 hours surely has to be cheaper than a fleet of vehicles burning gas and maintenance, and numerous individuals out hand delivering passports (which need to be signed off on). Or if it was like mine this summer, I caught the bastard trying to put one of those we missed you, pick it up here flyers on my door, because he didn’t ring the doorbell and didn’t actually try to deliver it. Don’t get me started on that (different issue). But yeah so now I’ve got to go to a location and get it from a person behind a desk anyways, if I’m not there. That’s for sure super cost effective /s
