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.
