I understand why they strike but they also don't understand the reality world of mail delivery is changed or changing constantly. A lot of small business are starting to use small private courier now. UPS, FedEx, Purolator, DHL are all offering 7 days a week delivery if you don't do this, there is no way to survive as a business. Business (vendors) needs those delivery service as everything is now online shopping. Letter mail is dead except passport, insurance pink paper - almost everything is done online securely like DocuSign etc. As far I read, they only want to weekdays and higher rate wage; I think that is way too much to ask for Canada Post as a dying business model. I'm happy I don't have to keep cleaning out my mail box weekly.
We don't need the LCBO stores but there's excellent money in their purchasing and logistics, i.e., their wholesaling. It's a fairly low-innovation and low-brilliance type of business that a govt. can actually do. So I don't mind LCBO wholesaling even though I'm against every other govt. business I know of - e.g. the CBC!
I took a break from alcohol in August. I wasn't a heavy drinker. I would drink about three beers per week or even just three beers every two weeks. I get the occasional craving for a beer but I enjoy the challenge of maintaining this streak of no drinking to see how far I can take it.
It is a service, a public service. It is a cost to operate and they are not a private sector there is no need to turn a profit. It can help having revenue to reduce the burden to tax payers but it remains a public service.
Living out in rural Canada they are the only way we have to send or receive parcels or documents. There is no other choice for rural communities. Going on for so long it just feels like being abandoned by the government, which I guess should catch no one by surprised but we'll remember. I also feel bad for all the small businesses that have seriously suffered over this as well as people's whose important documents are held hostage.
It's just ANOTHER SIGN that our Liberal Government is AN ABSOLUTE FAILURE at running anything properly!!! The CLOWN PARTY Drama Show needs to end ASAP!!🤡
Yup. CUPW thought that screwing over Canadians at Christmas would somehow lead to us pressuring Canada Post to cave to union demands. Surprise! I don't support blackmail. CUPW can go kick rocks for all I care.
@@macdemo62 Believe it or not, many people still do, and for a reason. Any ice storm that leaves you out of power for more than a full day is a reference point.
They didn’t pick Christmas. Their contracts were up November 23rd. And they wanted to renegotiate before starting new contracts. It just happen to fall at the busiest time of the year. But all the postal workers are out of work & not being paid for their time off during the strike. And they’re fighting for more pay cuz they don’t make enough. So it’s hurting a lot of the workers as well that can’t pay their bills right now. Nobody is unaffected by this strike. Except rich ppl who don’t rely on cheaper delivery services. 🤷🏻♀️
@@Justin-uc8scMany people respond directly to the o.p. without reading the thread. It's been known to happen that some folks will have the same thought to post. 🤷♂️
I’ve had two different suppliers notify me that because of the strike they will be utilizing a different parcel service this holiday season. They will likely never return to using Canada Post ever again.
@@dav3tv452Half the cost means nothing when they won't deliver, and when they frequently deliver to the wrong address and just say "Oh well, crap happens."
@@Ogre6972they only strike every few years. Majority of the time, they are delivering mail and packages. So might as well use Canada Post, and save some money. Then only use more expensive services when they go on strike.
@@wendigo53Only because it doesn’t make sense for the competitors to try and compete. Once Canada post is gone the competitors will gladly take over the rural areas.
Do as I do - get yourself a wood stove and be DELIGHTED that people are sending you free papers in the mail to use as fire starter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The people in big cities definitely notice. A lot of packages are stuck in the mail jail to as well, canada post has them but they are not moving. USPS has suspended sending packages to canada to as well because of the strike. Rural areas cannot get packages from big cities. They definitely notice and were using Canada Post for a reason.
@@PaulK-el9zx Canada post is the dominant player in the market and has the most post offices. They just need to rework their business model and take the cake.
If they did that the corporation would care even less. They're trying to dial back on sick days and dental benefits. They offered like half a percentage of pay raise for that. Their workflow is increasing already and they wanna keep squeezing. They start making up stuff about losses when the company has never been busier with this thin a workforce. Sure they used to deliver more mail but they had 10 times the staff too.
As a rural Canadian. We have noticed the strike. As a small business owner, we haven't been able to get supplies for seasonal operation and have lost roughly half our income.
Look at the comments - if it's not important to a city dweller it must not be important, rural Canadians well too bad so sad. Typical selfish self centered urbanite.
Their crazy expensive parcel pricing is why there is so much competition. It's not even hard to do a lot better price-wise shipping to cities and medium-sized towns, apparently. Chit Chats, Stallion Express, Intelcom, Flashbox, the list goes on... The main thing canada post has going for them is lettermail. If you want to ship something small / flat like a DVD, video game, a cable, sd card, book, etc. it's by far the cheapest option. But that's not a very lucrative service for them. If it goes away, they have nothing of note compared to other couriers.
@@caldera11The irony is that Chit Chats and Stallion use Canada Post! But they get volume discounts. It’s the regular guy that pays full price for Canada Post.
I live rural, along with over 6 million other Canadians. We have no courier service, we don't get Amazon trucks or Walmart home delivery. People get there medications through Canada Post, not to mention dry goods personal hygiene supplies the list goes on and on. A grocery shopping trip to a city takes me 6+ hours and cost $40 in fuel. I am now having to go to the city for literally everything, with winter weather approaching we will likely end up just going without, for those with medical needs it could be deadly. Those of you in the cities may not notice, but the Canadians who live and work outside the cities certainly do. The Canadians that are logging the timber for your city houses, mining the ores for your gadgets, fishing for your dinner table. People that matter to the economy and to the countries GDP. It's rather offensive that you forget about the Canadians that are still the backbone of our country when you say does anyone notice. Perhaps you have not noticed us, 6 and a 1/4 million of us that depend on Canada Post for the basic necessities that you take for granted.
Private Enterprise is focused on profitable markets, so I concentrated areas like cities. A government organization works to service its constituents. Including those in rural areas. Does The Sun speak for these people? Clearly not.
@bighitstepside but he won't because there is no money in it, the very same reason we haven't any courier companies willing to serve our community. Low population numbers with wide distances in-between. Privatization of post services is a terrible idea, the only thing people like Elon are interested in is making money, they could care less if a diabetic in the Yukon dies from lack of insulin, or a family cannot get infant formula. If there is no profit in it they will let us die. There is a reason why national postal service's exist the world over, why governments subsidized these services. They are like highways, for remote communities. Do you think people like Elon should be managing our highways? Would you like to have to pay tolls every few kilometers just for the"privilege" of using the Elon 28? We pay taxes to maintain basic services and a standard of living within our countries. The thing that makes us the developed world. The postal system is part of these essential basic services. A service that allows people to live in remote forestry, mining and fishing communities. Without it the salt of the earth, those of us doing these resources extraction jobs to help maintain a resource based economy can not remain in our communities. This libertarian privatize everything ideology people have latched onto forgets that not everyone in society is Elon Musk, and that to have you country prosper the government elected by the people needs to maintain basic services to keep those lowly cogs (that people like Elon eat and shit out) able to function. If the government has to increase subsidies to keep Canada Post functioning so be it, its why we pay 30%+ of our income to taxes. So we can keep logging mining and fishing for the GDP...... Or we can let billionaires take everything over cut everything that doesn't turn a profit and end up in some dystopia where those of us outside the walls starve in view of the men in towers
someone really needs to ask them how they thought they'd be able to live off the strike pay from the union if they claimed they couldn't afford to live off their salary strike pay can be as little as $40 a day if they show up to the picket line
With amazing benefits, barely doing their jobs right, working convenient daytime hours, and job security. I know many people who donor have worked there, and all the one's who aren't lazy, self entitled a-holes, loved the job and said how easy and great it was, most of them women, and they never saw the need to strike.
My brother worked as an inside worker at Canada Post for a couple of years in the 1970s. They tracked and "recognized" (by posting names on a list on the break room bulletin board) who sorted letters the fastest, but there was no tangible incentive attached to good performance. Couple of things: EVERY postcard was read by sorters, and the "good ones" went on the bulletin board for a week; and one guy made a ball (like a small soccer ball) out of those thick mail elastics.
@@ickster23 Yes. Education is one indirect factor... the direct factor is "how hard is it to fill the job"; determined by a mix of qualifications (including education) and job desirability (including occupational hazards like remoteness, stinky-ness, and danger). My brother said when he moved out to BC, he never met a shingle sawyer that had all his fingers.
Our mail is delivered to a super box at the corner of our street. We routinely get mail addressed to a neighbor on the intersecting street. It just happens that our street number is the same and the first two letters of our last name is the same. The mail delivery person seems incapable, or unwilling, to read the full address on envelopes (name, street and street number) and simply puts the letters in our mailbox (even though the correct mail box is inches away) I am forced to deliver my neighbor's mail at least once a week. The mail person has only one job to do, but cannot be bothered to do it right. I am not sure if they are stupid, illiterate or just plain mean. One thing is certain, they are useless.
If you're delivering the mail to your neighbour yourself, how do you expect the mail carrier to realize they are making a recurring mistake? Either write "missort" on the envelope (without damaging it) and drop it in the mail out slot, or bring it to your local post office and explain the problem. Ask if the manager is there, no need to be upset, and they should resolve the issue for you.
I was receiving three bills a month through CP. At the start of this latest strike I switched them to paperless like the rest of my bills. Problem solved. No more mail for me. Although I feel bad for those affected by these greedy unions, they obviously will have to find another, as this nonsense is going to continue. They are striking their way out of good paying jobs. Boo hoo and good riddance.
Yes. I wish people would stop saying mail is irrelevant. I am on disability assistance in BC, and i rely on a trust cheque to be mailed from another province, that pays part of my rent! Also, i would like to send and receive Christmas cards to my grandmother in a nursing home - in another province. Also my elderly parents. Not everyone can or wants to go digital, for a variety of reasons. At least not for everything
then you're at the mercy of greedy union and public sector workers that don't care about your suffering...adapt and go digital, at this point its not a preference like using an old blackberry, its a necessity to life in 2024. its like not having a phone in your house in the mid 90''s because growing up in the 60's your parents didn't have one.
A few years ago Canada Post would refuse to deliver parcels if there was snow on the driveway. We live in far northern BC. There’s snow on everyone’s driveways. But they still managed to risk their lives to put a notice on my door to tell me why they didn’t deliver it. And the flyers and junk were still delivered to the door. Make it make sense.
Don’t you think it’s POOR MANAGEMENT that Cost the LOST REVENUE. Canada Post CEO is the Purolator - Board Member and Canada Post The Chair of the Board of Directors is also Board Member for Purolator. Do you think this is Conflict of Interest?
Canada Post for as long as I can remember has bankrupted small online businesses in RURAL Canada, not including tiny letter mail, how can you compete with such high shipping here, highest in the world, unless you live bye a Stallion or Chit Chat, you can't compete as a online seller, shipping through Canada Post is outrageous, US is thriving from online sellers through Ebay, Canada could be generating so much income through online sales if the Canada Post shipping wasn't so ridiculous to ship a tee shirt or a pair of jeans, there greed is killing Canadian small businesses. Canadians could be making billions off online businesses, selling new and pre owned goods here across Canada, but instead it all goes into the landfills, it's a dirty sham what Canada Post is doing to this countries economy. Sorry for the rant.
Government needs to Step in and end this now. next year we will more than likely have a New Government. We should then sell off Canada Post and Privatise it.
For mail you mean? They have xpress post, delivery standards of all kinds. Doesnt really work to have 1 week's mail flow in 1 day either especially in places where people still get a lot.
@@SaumBodhi the system doesn't work now as it is. I'm just saying it doesn't make sense to have run junk mail to my box every day. Most people don't need daily mail service.
Executives don’t want a deal, because they make more money during strike. They just delay until forced arbitration. It is very selfish. Maybe they shouldn’t own other courier companies like Purolator.
Considering the cost of shipping a small parcel with Canada Post (around CA$15) vs shipping with USPS (around US$5), it's more than doubled or tripled - this is ridiculous! It severely hindered the growth of small business in Canada as well as brought a huge cost to every family to send mails/parcels in Canada. IMHO, Canada Post should be dismissed, and Canada should rebuild a mailing system like USPS.
If it costs less to ship with USPS then use them and forget about it. We have way bigger problems in Canada than Canada post. Like our appointed senate, reckless government spending, trade deficits, ridiculous bills that have been passed like C16. The height of ridiculousness has literally been reached in Ottawa and it's staggering that somewhere in the trillions of dollars they have wasted over the last 9 years they couldn't find a few bucks to pay people who provide a legitimate essential service to Canadians.
In the past five years, I can count on one hand how many times I had to buy a stamp. Let’s face the facts, Canada Post is a dying business. It’s no longer required.
We need Canada Post and I have noticed, the alternatives are not good e.g. we have Dragonfly which runs a lot of amazon deliveries and is completely owned and operated by Indians and they do not seem to hire anyone else...just Indians...just like every other business owned by Indians. Sure there is FedEx, UPS etc...but they are extremely expensive. I fully disagree that no one has noticed and that we do not need them, just look at the other options and tell me that we should not support CP and in turn support businesses that do not hire anyone other than their own country men. That said the strike is stupid, but I still support them.
Talk to the people who live in rural communities. I can’t send them a Christmas card, or Christmas gift because there is no ups or puralator depot. The biggest centre is 2hrs drive for these services. How much of Canada is in this situation? Canada post isn’t terribly efficient, but let’s find a way to manage rural Canada. BTW, They said the same thing about greyhound, and private companies has hobbled together a service for communities which doesn’t always work right for small towns. Canada post needs to be more relevant but dismantling it is not the only option.
A very simplistic analysis. Undoubtedly, Lorne, you live in a large city where you can get, literally, anything delivered 7 days a week. That isn't so for people who live in small rural communities or remote communities. They depend on Canada Post because none of the private companies will deliver anything there because it isn't profitable. Because Canada Post is a crown corporation, they don't have the luxury of refusing to deliver to any and all addresses. They deliver to these communities, even though it is unprofitable, because it is in the company's mandate to do so. So there are many Canadians who don't share your opinion. And if Canada Post goes out of business, you can bet that delivery prices will go up dramatically. Be careful what you wish for.
Canada post needs a major overhaul and time to downsize. Rural Canada still needs postal service for a few more years, but big cities could definitely do without postal services.
Great that you do not notice, but what about those living in rural Canada where Amazon, and all the big stores utilize Canada Post to deliver their goods. Canada is the second largest country in the world, with many rural communities that rely on a Working Postal Service. It is a 300 km round trip for my Family to go to Shop for Necessities, and the Trudeau Tax on Fuel Hurts Very Badly.
I ordered a heated outdoor bed for a feral cat that I feed. It's been stuck in BC for two weeks. The cat is suffering because of this strike more than I am.
Cats live through winter sleeping in old barn. Get some big cheap plastic bin, cover the inside with cheap blankets, put it some place below cover if you can, if you're that worried about it.
@@SaumBodhi Yes, the cat does have a shelter but it's missing the heated bed. I'd prefer if the cat had a warm place to sleep instead of merely surviving.
Rural Canadians rely on Canada Post for parcel deliveries. Couriers do not deliver to many rural areas including mine. So if we get rid of Canada Post we need to replace it with something that works for rural areas.
I feel bad for the postal workers, unfortunately they are not getting good advice from their leaders. The Canadian public are tired of throwing money away on poorly managed public corporations. Their leadership is going to negotiate them out of a job.
You need to know a postal worker who isn't delusional then, cuz the one's who aren't lazy, self entitled whiners, love their job. Low work load, high pay, great benefits, job security, and Gov't paid holidays. I know/have known atleast 10 people who work there and all but 1 loved their job and had zero complaints about their cushy job.
Lol Canada Post: "we can't afford to keep the lights on because our business model is outdated and we couldn't be bothered to stay with the times" Postal workers: "Don't care. Give us more money." These guys deserve their fate.
@tc-yq2cb that's the thing the strikers don't get though. It IS about the money, they can't afford to not hire temp workers for weekends instead of pay overtime. They can't afford better benefits. They can't afford a wage increase. They can't afford what they're paying their already too big of a workforce. They need to just close their doors.
I'm not siding with CP at all btw. As stated before. They both deserve what they're heading towards. Maybe we will get affordable postage out of it that doesn't always shut down around the holidays.
Try doing my job and tell me I’m overpaid 😂. You probably couldn’t even do it. I’ve worked many jobs close to 30 per hour and this job is right in line in terms of pay for what you do. Everyone thinks mail delivery is some easy job anyone could do. Ya no it’s not. The reason I’ve stuck with this over other similar paid jobs , is I work almost alone and just accountable for myself , no annoying co workers
We need letter mail. There is no replacement from other companies. Parcel mail they neglected for too long by charging crazy high prices which is why competition is fierce and there are many third party providers.
It’s a crime for one Canadian to hold another Canadians mail knowingly but Canada post ah it’s ok.. I say fire them all and hire people who aren’t lazy
Did you know Canada Post has 5 unions, and only one of them is on strike right now? Did you know that staff has been decreasing and business has been booming and somehow their offer was to take away sick days and benefits for 1% what the union asked for in raise? It's a terrible deal and they won't budge.
@SaumBodhi booming? They are literally losing money every year, they're lucky to have the jobs they got and should get back to work! Holding mail hostage is fucked up and no one i know supprts this ridiculous strike
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There was a time when people relied on the Post Office around Christmas time - Now that they have spoiled the Christmas spirit and lost the Christmas business there really is no rush to bring them back and no reason to give into their demands now or ever!
Yes we have noticed…us folks in rural Ontario don’t have any other options. Fed Ex, purolator etc turn shipments over to canada post since they don’t deliver to our rural location. I can’t get my insulin pump supplies delivered. I have 2 weeks worth left. That is life threatening for me. Not sure what I’m going to do. Additionally the only way we get Amazon is via Canada Post. This REALLY effecting rural folks.
I miss Canada Post at the moment because I'm expecting a cheque in the mail. Next time I'll go for direct deposit. I don't miss the junk mail, but my dog misses seeing off the axe-murdering mailman every morning. Now she'll have to save us from the Amazon and UPS drivers.
They are holding rural people and remote people hostage as well. Taxpayers subsidies are given so they deliver to the areas that others don’t find profitable.
This is just proving Canadians can easily live without Canada Post. Improve customer service, delivery times, weekend deliveries, and the couriers themselves and maybe they wont lose $300 million in one quarter.
Many many many many Canadians desperately looking for any job theses days …tough times but those guys still didn’t woke up to see the reality around them ..most of them are non skilled workers ( doesn’t need any special diploma like nurses , teaches , electricians ..) ..wake up guys before it s too late
I like canada post for christmas cards and package delivery. Its also a foolish time to strike. Most canadians are not doing well financially and postal workers should be looking at the bigger picture. The problem is national leadership.
The union and workers are too short sighted to realize that they are asking for raises from a company hemeraging money, at a time where the public outcry and small business backstabbing will backfire on them as a support system, and that by doing so they have allowed competitors to start up businesses more nimble and creative... thus putting them out of a job once and for all. Great job #blockbuster2.0
Thing is canada post business is booming and they have skeleton staff, and are crying losses everytime one of the 5 unions is going to get offered a terrible new contract like loosing sick days and vacation, basic benefits get knocked down, and they will only be offered like 1% of the raise they are asking for. Meanwhile management union is bloated and makes for the bulk of salary even though they are still way less employees than the regular workers.
I am a retired supervisor. I am tired of Canada post always being slammed. The reality is Trudeau interfered with their restructure for votes in Quebec. Had the restructure been completed projections were there would have been a min of $750 milion in savings per year. Seconly, Canada is a huge country and Canada Post is the only setvice provider for all of the country. UPS, Fed Ex and others want to cherry pick where they do business. AKA work only in the area where they can make huge profits. Small business need Canada Post! The admail or junk mail people love to complain about is so successful for small business. Studies have shown it increases business by up to 600%. There are so many reasons why CPC is still relevent. The only problem is the truth is no properly promoted and communicated.
I 've lived in rural communities, I've owned a small business in the past. I would be more than happy with mail service once per week. There have also been times in my life I've gone 6 months without even checking my super mail box to the point where they stopped delivering anyway. Enjoy your fat pension on the tax payer dime. Your view is obviously biased.
Nope! I will not use the services of any business that insists on sending me junk mail. It's right up there with telemarketers calling you during dinner.
Canada post needs to adjust to the market like delivery on weekends just to compete so why the union thinks full time staff getting paid double time on weekends is the solution is why this strike will be the 2nd last nail in the coffin
Nope. It is time to review their business model as I’m sure that mail delivery has decreased by 50% or more as many have changed their documents to online. Remember, Canada Post has lost $315 million dollars last quarter. Wake up Canada
The only reason charities, foundations, not for profit are upset about the postal strike is because all the donations to fund there executives salaries have dried up, thats where most of the money goes- helping the homless is the least of charities concern- sucks to be them lol
You’re right ! My dog noticed the postal worker isn’t coming to the front door weekdays!. Have I noticed that the postal service is on strike? Nope. Personally, I’ve barely used Canada Post in the past decade, and in business, not at all. Canada Post has become an anachronism, other than for small business / charities and smaller communities. The posties may not realize it yet, but they’re convincing most of the public that the vast majority of us don’t need a national postal service anymore
Instead of crapping on Canada Post SERVICE to ALL Canadians maybe do a little investigating on WHY there was 3 billion deficit over 6 years. Hint. Its not the workers wages. Why are you encouraging a race to the bottom. Truth is that most courier companies will not succeed if they charge Canada Post rates. The solution to the dilemma is twofold. Raise the rates and fire half of the management. NO more bonuses to management that are failing at making CPC viable.
The CP gets paid enough! It has plenty of automation. Millions would work for less. They ruined Black Friday!! Prepaid packages should not be held for hostage! My winter coat, boots and my medications are sitting near by somewhere. Amazon should tell their sellers not to use Canada Post!! I am pissed.
Due to this strike, I was unable to send my daughter and my only two granddaughters their Bday gifts and now their Christmas gifts. All my Christmas cards are stamped and sitting, waiting for the strike to be over. It would have cost me twice to send via courier. I will definitely look at alternative ways, next time!
Yes I notice and so do many companies, I work at a financial institution that are now having to use courier services and it cost 10 to 20% more. We receive and send easily 100 pieces of mail a day. We need a postal service. Please stop with your nonsense and online everything!! What happens when internet services crash. We need multiple options. You sir are not affected and therefore don’t see the need for anything that you don’t use.
I live in a small farming community in Ontario have post office in our general store. Use it quite often for shipping small parcels . I actually have a couple of prepaid boxes that I can't use right now because of the strike. I would also add that this time of year and actually most time of the year the post office is quite busy with small packages.
@@joanneesposito3295 Thanks for your thoughts; its actually just a form for my GP that they need to sign before they can direct deposit the money into my account, so its technically not a cheque in the mail. They have no other way of getting this form to a GP and they're not allowed to fax it. Ugh.
Yes.. set up direct deposit.. everything from the CRA (tax refunds, climate action refunds etc). just magically appear in my chequing account. No need to wait for Canada Post.
I hope they know that my bills are sitting in their post office building and I do usually pay them . I hope they are paying my bills while they go on srike ? I just dont care what they do but go back to work !! Like i do ! Grow up , Canadian mailman!!,
I went to the post office in U.S. trying to mail several Christmas packages to family in Canada and was told about the Canada strike. To strike around Christmas time, so many people in the world are impacted. MEAN decision.
Canada post is striking themselves out of a job.
@@cmatthewwilliams6182 have you done any checking most of them only make a little over minimum wage so give them a break
I understand why they strike but they also don't understand the reality world of mail delivery is changed or changing constantly. A lot of small business are starting to use small private courier now. UPS, FedEx, Purolator, DHL are all offering 7 days a week delivery if you don't do this, there is no way to survive as a business. Business (vendors) needs those delivery service as everything is now online shopping. Letter mail is dead except passport, insurance pink paper - almost everything is done online securely like DocuSign etc.
As far I read, they only want to weekdays and higher rate wage; I think that is way too much to ask for Canada Post as a dying business model. I'm happy I don't have to keep cleaning out my mail box weekly.
Nothing says job security like proving we can do without them during the extra busy Christmas season.
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@@cmatthewwilliams6182 thanks for clarifying!
I noticed theres no fliers i have to immediately throw in the garbage every week. Good times
I give them back to Canada Post. They need something to do
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The flyers pay their wage, not the tax players. So get over yourself.
Short sighted on your part! No more 2 for 1 pizza and wings! Oh the humanity. ;)
LOL oh yeah I was wondering why there’s no spam mail, forgot why
We don’t need cbc and lcbo either.
LCBO: Maybe. I look forward to seeing whether alcohol consumption and related crime and traffic accidents go up.
CBC: needs a reboot at least.
If all types of alcohol were available in stores like the UK there would be no need for LCBO and Beer Store
@ no kidding
We don't need the LCBO stores but there's excellent money in their purchasing and logistics, i.e., their wholesaling. It's a fairly low-innovation and low-brilliance type of business that a govt. can actually do. So I don't mind LCBO wholesaling even though I'm against every other govt. business I know of - e.g. the CBC!
I took a break from alcohol in August. I wasn't a heavy drinker. I would drink about three beers per week or even just three beers every two weeks. I get the occasional craving for a beer but I enjoy the challenge of maintaining this streak of no drinking to see how far I can take it.
Is nobody addressing the issue that Canada Post lost 3 billion in the last 3 yrs? The math ain’t mathing!
They just striked themselves into insolvency
Those are self set targets they didnt meet. They always start bragging about how much they're in the hole when strikes are coming around.
It is a service, a public service. It is a cost to operate and they are not a private sector there is no need to turn a profit. It can help having revenue to reduce the burden to tax payers but it remains a public service.
@@MagicSpamDragon I can remember back in the day if you worked at the postal service you had it made.
@ unlike other services the government does not provide money to make up losses, they do not need to make a profit but they must stand alone!
Living out in rural Canada they are the only way we have to send or receive parcels or documents. There is no other choice for rural communities. Going on for so long it just feels like being abandoned by the government, which I guess should catch no one by surprised but we'll remember. I also feel bad for all the small businesses that have seriously suffered over this as well as people's whose important documents are held hostage.
I can't mail my forms to my union for my dental plan. Pain
It's just ANOTHER SIGN that our Liberal Government is AN ABSOLUTE FAILURE at running anything properly!!! The CLOWN PARTY Drama Show needs to end ASAP!!🤡
@@misotahini52 so what you are saying is that in the rural areas there’s a huge opportunity for someone to set up a rural delivery business.
Nonsence! We are rural as well: call one of the many courier companies!
@@electronicexperimentalist5906 there is no profit for that. That is the reason we need companies like Via or CP.
They picked Christmas for a reason. And it still failed.
Yup. CUPW thought that screwing over Canadians at Christmas would somehow lead to us pressuring Canada Post to cave to union demands. Surprise! I don't support blackmail. CUPW can go kick rocks for all I care.
Funny I’m in my 60’s and I remember Canada post holding us hostage plenty of times! Especially back in the day when we relied on its service !
@@macdemo62 Believe it or not, many people still do, and for a reason.
Any ice storm that leaves you out of power for more than a full day is a reference point.
Yep, all their going to accomplish is disappointing kids for Christmas and lining up for unemployment once they get their asses fired lol
They didn’t pick Christmas. Their contracts were up November 23rd. And they wanted to renegotiate before starting new contracts. It just happen to fall at the busiest time of the year. But all the postal workers are out of work & not being paid for their time off during the strike. And they’re fighting for more pay cuz they don’t make enough. So it’s hurting a lot of the workers as well that can’t pay their bills right now. Nobody is unaffected by this strike. Except rich ppl who don’t rely on cheaper delivery services. 🤷🏻♀️
What kind of insanity is it that convinces a union to demand a wage increase from a money losing enterprise?
They already receive excellent pay for what they actually do.
Ask the wnba they've been doing it for almost 3 decades....
ask the WNBA.
@@Parlimant_Strifey why you repeating the comment above yours that you just read?
@@Justin-uc8scMany people respond directly to the o.p. without reading the thread. It's been known to happen that some folks will have the same thought to post. 🤷♂️
I’ve had two different suppliers notify me that because of the strike they will be utilizing a different parcel service this holiday season. They will likely never return to using Canada Post ever again.
My family and friends are all doing the same. We also won’t be purchasing anything from businesses that use Canada post.
Yes the will when you can send for half the cost with Canada Post
@@dav3tv452Half the cost means nothing when they won't deliver, and when they frequently deliver to the wrong address and just say "Oh well, crap happens."
@@Ogre6972they only strike every few years. Majority of the time, they are delivering mail and packages. So might as well use Canada Post, and save some money. Then only use more expensive services when they go on strike.
I am sure if Canada Post comes with back with 7 day delivery and an improved business model they will change their minds, its just in the moment.
going the way of the CBC!! They have outlive their usefulness.
unions period
Same with the liberals and legacy news
Not really, all the commercial delivery companies rely on Canada post to service the last mile to rural companies.
@@roychin6460 same with the l.i.b.e.r.a.ls and legacy media
@@wendigo53Only because it doesn’t make sense for the competitors to try and compete. Once Canada post is gone the competitors will gladly take over the rural areas.
Canada Post is doing its part to fight climate change with this strike
My mailbox has not been stuffed with useless junk mail for 3 weeks now
You know you can opt out right? 😂
Do as I do - get yourself a wood stove and be DELIGHTED that people are sending you free papers in the mail to use as fire starter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
put a red dot sticker on your mailbox, they wont give you junk mail then
Really I didn’t know that thanks
You know they don’t create the junk mail, right ?
big cities don't notice but people who live in small towns do we rely on them because we have no other options
Maybe Canada Post needs to realize they should give up on cities and concentrate on rural areas which aren't serviced. Called sub contracting.
The people in big cities definitely notice. A lot of packages are stuck in the mail jail to as well, canada post has them but they are not moving. USPS has suspended sending packages to canada to as well because of the strike. Rural areas cannot get packages from big cities. They definitely notice and were using Canada Post for a reason.
@@PaulK-el9zx Canada post is the dominant player in the market and has the most post offices. They just need to rework their business model and take the cake.
@@PaulK-el9zxthe money is made in the cities and they're already bleeding money, which is why they can't agree to a 24% wage increase
If they started their strike in August I would support them but waiting till November every time ticks me off and I don’t support it!!
Agreed!
💯
Big Yes
If they did that the corporation would care even less. They're trying to dial back on sick days and dental benefits. They offered like half a percentage of pay raise for that. Their workflow is increasing already and they wanna keep squeezing. They start making up stuff about losses when the company has never been busier with this thin a workforce. Sure they used to deliver more mail but they had 10 times the staff too.
@@SaumBodhi seems most people don’t support them!
Urban entitlement. Rural areas need Canada Post. Force the employees back to work.
Nonsence! I'm rural as well: call one of the many courier companies.
Totally agree I’m in a small town and completely rely on the post!!!
not to mention the disabled people need them
I’m rural and finding other ways to get what’s required yes it cost a bit more worth it nothing damaged or late
The competitors will move in once Canada post is gone.
I live in rural Alberta, and CP delivers my community newspaper. I miss it, as I use it to light my fires :)
Yep, time to stop at the nearest free newspaper box to stock up on firestarter materials
One day, all newspapers will be online. No more hard copy.
@@bmoshareholderappleshareho855 - That'll be HORRIBLE! Think of all the smoke from the burning plastic of the monitor.
As a rural Canadian. We have noticed the strike. As a small business owner, we haven't been able to get supplies for seasonal operation and have lost roughly half our income.
Look at the comments - if it's not important to a city dweller it must not be important, rural Canadians well too bad so sad. Typical selfish self centered urbanite.
@@Phil-1887 it's true.
Is purolator or fedex not capable of shipping? Can your and customer ordering not be done online?
Can't you useany other carrier service like Fedex, Puro or countless others?
Same happening to my business, there is no valid replacement for letter mail. My business is online and is down 75%
Canada Post, if it wants to survive, needs to adapt and evolve. Let go 80% of the staff, and adapt new efficient ways of doing things.
they cant fire people or make any large organizational process changes with the union in place; they need to kick the union out.
CUPW and Canada post have made a joke out of us.Govt is acting as a joker in between.
Canada Post parcel rates are the highest in N America, actually rediculously high.
Their crazy expensive parcel pricing is why there is so much competition. It's not even hard to do a lot better price-wise shipping to cities and medium-sized towns, apparently. Chit Chats, Stallion Express, Intelcom, Flashbox, the list goes on...
The main thing canada post has going for them is lettermail. If you want to ship something small / flat like a DVD, video game, a cable, sd card, book, etc. it's by far the cheapest option. But that's not a very lucrative service for them. If it goes away, they have nothing of note compared to other couriers.
@@caldera11The irony is that Chit Chats and Stallion use Canada Post! But they get volume discounts. It’s the regular guy that pays full price for Canada Post.
Of course they are. Because we are the second biggest country in the world with only 40 mil people.
I live rural, along with over 6 million other Canadians. We have no courier service, we don't get Amazon trucks or Walmart home delivery. People get there medications through Canada Post, not to mention dry goods personal hygiene supplies the list goes on and on. A grocery shopping trip to a city takes me 6+ hours and cost $40 in fuel. I am now having to go to the city for literally everything, with winter weather approaching we will likely end up just going without, for those with medical needs it could be deadly.
Those of you in the cities may not notice, but the Canadians who live and work outside the cities certainly do. The Canadians that are logging the timber for your city houses, mining the ores for your gadgets, fishing for your dinner table. People that matter to the economy and to the countries GDP. It's rather offensive that you forget about the Canadians that are still the backbone of our country when you say does anyone notice. Perhaps you have not noticed us, 6 and a 1/4 million of us that depend on Canada Post for the basic necessities that you take for granted.
Private Enterprise is focused on profitable markets, so I concentrated areas like cities. A government organization works to service its constituents. Including those in rural areas.
Does The Sun speak for these people?
Clearly not.
save your breath, they don't give a fuck about you.
Elon musk could probably figure out how to do rural delivery for 10% of the cost of Canada post
@bighitstepside but he won't because there is no money in it, the very same reason we haven't any courier companies willing to serve our community. Low population numbers with wide distances in-between. Privatization of post services is a terrible idea, the only thing people like Elon are interested in is making money, they could care less if a diabetic in the Yukon dies from lack of insulin, or a family cannot get infant formula. If there is no profit in it they will let us die.
There is a reason why national postal service's exist the world over, why governments subsidized these services. They are like highways, for remote communities. Do you think people like Elon should be managing our highways? Would you like to have to pay tolls every few kilometers just for the"privilege" of using the Elon 28? We pay taxes to maintain basic services and a standard of living within our countries. The thing that makes us the developed world. The postal system is part of these essential basic services. A service that allows people to live in remote forestry, mining and fishing communities. Without it the salt of the earth, those of us doing these resources extraction jobs to help maintain a resource based economy can not remain in our communities.
This libertarian privatize everything ideology people have latched onto forgets that not everyone in society is Elon Musk, and that to have you country prosper the government elected by the people needs to maintain basic services to keep those lowly cogs (that people like Elon eat and shit out) able to function. If the government has to increase subsidies to keep Canada Post functioning so be it, its why we pay 30%+ of our income to taxes. So we can keep logging mining and fishing for the GDP...... Or we can let billionaires take everything over cut everything that doesn't turn a profit and end up in some dystopia where those of us outside the walls starve in view of the men in towers
Striking there way out of a job.
*Their
Grammer nazi😂@@SinclairEli
Back to grade 6 English class before commenting on anything further. Thank you.
Its "their" not "there"
THEY CAN LIVE ON STRIKE....COULDN,T CARE LESS!!!
But....but...but..but...Northern Scurvy...
It’s destroyed my sales right now!
someone really needs to ask them how they thought they'd be able to live off the strike pay from the union if they claimed they couldn't afford to live off their salary strike pay can be as little as $40 a day if they show up to the picket line
I think you could care even less if you tried…
I'm sure that they are getting paid enough now. Greed kills .
These guys should be glad they had jobs.. making almost $30 an hour with little to no education.
This is correct, though there are good ones who work there too,
With amazing benefits, barely doing their jobs right, working convenient daytime hours, and job security. I know many people who donor have worked there, and all the one's who aren't lazy, self entitled a-holes, loved the job and said how easy and great it was, most of them women, and they never saw the need to strike.
My brother worked as an inside worker at Canada Post for a couple of years in the 1970s. They tracked and "recognized" (by posting names on a list on the break room bulletin board) who sorted letters the fastest, but there was no tangible incentive attached to good performance. Couple of things: EVERY postcard was read by sorters, and the "good ones" went on the bulletin board for a week; and one guy made a ball (like a small soccer ball) out of those thick mail elastics.
Education shouldn't drive wages. I've seen an awfully lot of unethical, dishonest, and useless employees with many academic accolades to their name.
@@ickster23 Yes. Education is one indirect factor... the direct factor is "how hard is it to fill the job"; determined by a mix of qualifications (including education) and job desirability (including occupational hazards like remoteness, stinky-ness, and danger). My brother said when he moved out to BC, he never met a shingle sawyer that had all his fingers.
Our mail is delivered to a super box at the corner of our street. We routinely get mail addressed to a neighbor on the intersecting street. It just happens that our street number is the same and the first two letters of our last name is the same. The mail delivery person seems incapable, or unwilling, to read the full address on envelopes (name, street and street number) and simply puts the letters in our mailbox (even though the correct mail box is inches away) I am forced to deliver my neighbor's mail at least once a week. The mail person has only one job to do, but cannot be bothered to do it right. I am not sure if they are stupid, illiterate or just plain mean. One thing is certain, they are useless.
If you're delivering the mail to your neighbour yourself, how do you expect the mail carrier to realize they are making a recurring mistake? Either write "missort" on the envelope (without damaging it) and drop it in the mail out slot, or bring it to your local post office and explain the problem. Ask if the manager is there, no need to be upset, and they should resolve the issue for you.
I was receiving three bills a month through CP. At the start of this latest strike I switched them to paperless like the rest of my bills. Problem solved. No more mail for me. Although I feel bad for those affected by these greedy unions, they obviously will have to find another, as this nonsense is going to continue. They are striking their way out of good paying jobs. Boo hoo and good riddance.
Yes. I wish people would stop saying mail is irrelevant. I am on disability assistance in BC, and i rely on a trust cheque to be mailed from another province, that pays part of my rent! Also, i would like to send and receive Christmas cards to my grandmother in a nursing home - in another province. Also my elderly parents. Not everyone can or wants to go digital, for a variety of reasons. At least not for everything
then you're at the mercy of greedy union and public sector workers that don't care about your suffering...adapt and go digital, at this point its not a preference like using an old blackberry, its a necessity to life in 2024. its like not having a phone in your house in the mid 90''s because growing up in the 60's your parents didn't have one.
Good Lord, most dogs including mine miss giving the Post Man right or wrong a piece of their mind. Thank you sir for pointing that out!
This is how your dog would get put down and you'd be fined.
If you're cool with that though...
A few years ago Canada Post would refuse to deliver parcels if there was snow on the driveway. We live in far northern BC. There’s snow on everyone’s driveways. But they still managed to risk their lives to put a notice on my door to tell me why they didn’t deliver it. And the flyers and junk were still delivered to the door. Make it make sense.
Don’t you think it’s POOR MANAGEMENT that Cost the LOST REVENUE. Canada Post CEO is the Purolator - Board Member and Canada Post The Chair of the Board of Directors is also Board Member for Purolator. Do you think this is Conflict of Interest?
Canada Post for as long as I can remember has bankrupted small online businesses in RURAL Canada, not including tiny letter mail, how can you compete with such high shipping here, highest in the world, unless you live bye a Stallion or Chit Chat, you can't compete as a online seller, shipping through Canada Post is outrageous, US is thriving from online sellers through Ebay, Canada could be generating so much income through online sales if the Canada Post shipping wasn't so ridiculous to ship a tee shirt or a pair of jeans, there greed is killing Canadian small businesses. Canadians could be making billions off online businesses, selling new and pre owned goods here across Canada, but instead it all goes into the landfills, it's a dirty sham what Canada Post is doing to this countries economy. Sorry for the rant.
Government needs to Step in and end this now. next year we will more than likely have a New Government. We should then sell off Canada Post and Privatise it.
Postal service one day a week is more than enough for most people
I agree. Once a week is just fine. That also means that a lot jobs are going to lost.
For mail you mean? They have xpress post, delivery standards of all kinds. Doesnt really work to have 1 week's mail flow in 1 day either especially in places where people still get a lot.
@@SaumBodhi the system doesn't work now as it is.
I'm just saying it doesn't make sense to have run junk mail to my box every day. Most people don't need daily mail service.
Executives don’t want a deal, because they make more money during strike. They just delay until forced arbitration. It is very selfish.
Maybe they shouldn’t own other courier companies like Purolator.
Considering the cost of shipping a small parcel with Canada Post (around CA$15) vs shipping with USPS (around US$5), it's more than doubled or tripled - this is ridiculous! It severely hindered the growth of small business in Canada as well as brought a huge cost to every family to send mails/parcels in Canada. IMHO, Canada Post should be dismissed, and Canada should rebuild a mailing system like USPS.
If it costs less to ship with USPS then use them and forget about it. We have way bigger problems in Canada than Canada post. Like our appointed senate, reckless government spending, trade deficits, ridiculous bills that have been passed like C16. The height of ridiculousness has literally been reached in Ottawa and it's staggering that somewhere in the trillions of dollars they have wasted over the last 9 years they couldn't find a few bucks to pay people who provide a legitimate essential service to Canadians.
I’m not missing all the junk mail. That’s for sure. RIP Canada Post.
Why didn't you just add add a "No Flyers" sign to your mailbox?
They just striked themselves into insolvency
In the past five years, I can count on one hand how many times I had to buy a stamp. Let’s face the facts, Canada Post is a dying business. It’s no longer required.
You live in an urban area, you think the world works like that everywhere. This is how Trump won again unfortunately or not.
Yeah a dying business that has all my mail
We need Canada Post and I have noticed, the alternatives are not good e.g. we have Dragonfly which runs a lot of amazon deliveries and is completely owned and operated by Indians and they do not seem to hire anyone else...just Indians...just like every other business owned by Indians. Sure there is FedEx, UPS etc...but they are extremely expensive.
I fully disagree that no one has noticed and that we do not need them, just look at the other options and tell me that we should not support CP and in turn support businesses that do not hire anyone other than their own country men. That said the strike is stupid, but I still support them.
There are 2 sides and somewhere in the middle is the truth. I'm thankful for Canada post employees.
Talk to the people who live in rural communities. I can’t send them a Christmas card, or Christmas gift because there is no ups or puralator depot. The biggest centre is 2hrs drive for these services. How much of Canada is in this situation? Canada post isn’t terribly efficient, but let’s find a way to manage rural Canada. BTW, They said the same thing about greyhound, and private companies has hobbled together a service for communities which doesn’t always work right for small towns. Canada post needs to be more relevant but dismantling it is not the only option.
Canada Post needs to settle this immediately. This is going on at a very crucial time.
A very simplistic analysis. Undoubtedly, Lorne, you live in a large city where you can get, literally, anything delivered 7 days a week. That isn't so for people who live in small rural communities or remote communities. They depend on Canada Post because none of the private companies will deliver anything there because it isn't profitable. Because Canada Post is a crown corporation, they don't have the luxury of refusing to deliver to any and all addresses. They deliver to these communities, even though it is unprofitable, because it is in the company's mandate to do so. So there are many Canadians who don't share your opinion. And if Canada Post goes out of business, you can bet that delivery prices will go up dramatically. Be careful what you wish for.
Canada post needs a major overhaul and time to downsize. Rural Canada still needs postal service for a few more years, but big cities could definitely do without postal services.
The postal non service is destroying my business right now! How can we the people take away their ability to make any wage at all.
its too bad city people dont really realize the impact on rural areas.
Great that you do not notice, but what about those living in rural Canada where Amazon, and all the big stores utilize Canada Post to deliver their goods. Canada is the second largest country in the world, with many rural communities that rely on a Working Postal Service. It is a 300 km round trip for my Family to go to Shop for Necessities, and the Trudeau Tax on Fuel Hurts Very Badly.
I ordered a heated outdoor bed for a feral cat that I feed. It's been stuck in BC for two weeks. The cat is suffering because of this strike more than I am.
Cats live through winter sleeping in old barn. Get some big cheap plastic bin, cover the inside with cheap blankets, put it some place below cover if you can, if you're that worried about it.
Feeding feral cats just causes there to be more of them.
@@jeffpotipco736 He's already been trapped/neutered/returned.
@@SaumBodhi Yes, the cat does have a shelter but it's missing the heated bed. I'd prefer if the cat had a warm place to sleep instead of merely surviving.
@@ecomotive6158 Can't take it inside or capture it and put it up for adoption?
Rural Canadians rely on Canada Post for parcel deliveries. Couriers do not deliver to many rural areas including mine. So if we get rid of Canada Post we need to replace it with something that works for rural areas.
Doubt that, every courier does now.
Canada Post needs to evolve, they cannot continue to function as they do now. We live ruraly and would be fine with delivery once or twice per week.
@@glennpritchard274 No they don't. I have a small business that does mail order. Couriers do not deliver to rural addresses.
@@sparx6354 They don't deliver to SOME rural addresses. If you have and actual street address rather than an RR, they can now usually deliver to that
Drones would be swell if Canada Post just wakes up and gets with the program😊
Same can be said for news media. Don't see them getting out of my pocket anytime soon.
I feel bad for the postal workers, unfortunately they are not getting good advice from their leaders. The Canadian public are tired of throwing money away on poorly managed public corporations. Their leadership is going to negotiate them out of a job.
You need to know a postal worker who isn't delusional then, cuz the one's who aren't lazy, self entitled whiners, love their job. Low work load, high pay, great benefits, job security, and Gov't paid holidays. I know/have known atleast 10 people who work there and all but 1 loved their job and had zero complaints about their cushy job.
Lol Canada Post: "we can't afford to keep the lights on because our business model is outdated and we couldn't be bothered to stay with the times"
Postal workers: "Don't care. Give us more money."
These guys deserve their fate.
it's not about the money. That's the first thing people always think when the word strike comes out.
@tc-yq2cb that's the thing the strikers don't get though. It IS about the money, they can't afford to not hire temp workers for weekends instead of pay overtime. They can't afford better benefits. They can't afford a wage increase. They can't afford what they're paying their already too big of a workforce. They need to just close their doors.
Nonsense. Both sides put their interests first - to the detriment of the workers.
Exactly
I'm not siding with CP at all btw. As stated before. They both deserve what they're heading towards. Maybe we will get affordable postage out of it that doesn't always shut down around the holidays.
Inefficient, overpaid, poor service……Typical crown corporation
Very upper echelon's overpaid. And we render an excellent service.
Try doing my job and tell me I’m overpaid 😂. You probably couldn’t even do it. I’ve worked many jobs close to 30 per hour and this job is right in line in terms of pay for what you do. Everyone thinks mail delivery is some easy job anyone could do. Ya no it’s not. The reason I’ve stuck with this over other similar paid jobs , is I work almost alone and just accountable for myself , no annoying co workers
@@MKBENTOTtry working for a private delivery company and you will understand what real work means.You lazy,uneducated and spoiled brats.
We need letter mail. There is no replacement from other companies.
Parcel mail they neglected for too long by charging crazy high prices which is why competition is fierce and there are many third party providers.
Well said
It’s a crime for one Canadian to hold another Canadians mail knowingly but Canada post ah it’s ok.. I say fire them all and hire people who aren’t lazy
Agree 100%
Did you know Canada Post has 5 unions, and only one of them is on strike right now? Did you know that staff has been decreasing and business has been booming and somehow their offer was to take away sick days and benefits for 1% what the union asked for in raise? It's a terrible deal and they won't budge.
@SaumBodhi booming? They are literally losing money every year, they're lucky to have the jobs they got and should get back to work! Holding mail hostage is fucked up and no one i know supprts this ridiculous strike
Aah stamp seal delivered
Shame on u
Oh green monster
CANADA 🇨🇦 POST stands for CANADA 🇨🇦 like it or not Buissness depend on CANADA post it's something special to receive a letter in the mailbox or a parcel, CANADA post has a long History another is the CANADA 🇨🇦 military it's just as important to CANADA 🇨🇦 we all need and deserve these services
Fire all the posties….they are redundant……
I disagree. I get mail regularly and Canada post delivers. I don't want electronic mail tracking things.
There was a time when people relied on the Post Office around Christmas time - Now that they have spoiled the Christmas spirit and lost the Christmas business there really is no rush to bring them back and no reason to give into their demands now or ever!
Yes we have noticed…us folks in rural Ontario don’t have any other options. Fed Ex, purolator etc turn shipments over to canada post since they don’t deliver to our rural location. I can’t get my insulin pump supplies delivered. I have 2 weeks worth left. That is life threatening for me. Not sure what I’m going to do. Additionally the only way we get Amazon is via Canada Post. This REALLY effecting rural folks.
I miss Canada Post at the moment because I'm expecting a cheque in the mail. Next time I'll go for direct deposit. I don't miss the junk mail, but my dog misses seeing off the axe-murdering mailman every morning. Now she'll have to save us from the Amazon and UPS drivers.
They are holding rural people and remote people hostage as well. Taxpayers subsidies are given so they deliver to the areas that others don’t find profitable.
This is just proving Canadians can easily live without Canada Post. Improve customer service, delivery times, weekend deliveries, and the couriers themselves and maybe they wont lose $300 million in one quarter.
If Elon Musk bought Canada Post, he would layoff 2/3 of the workforce would put couriers out of business.
If they won't work just FIRE THEM and get some others that DO WANT to work!
Many many many many Canadians desperately looking for any job theses days …tough times but those guys still didn’t woke up to see the reality around them ..most of them are non skilled workers ( doesn’t need any special diploma like nurses , teaches , electricians ..) ..wake up guys before it s too late
I like canada post for christmas cards and package delivery. Its also a foolish time to strike. Most canadians are not doing well financially and postal workers should be looking at the bigger picture. The problem is national leadership.
The union and workers are too short sighted to realize that they are asking for raises from a company hemeraging money, at a time where the public outcry and small business backstabbing will backfire on them as a support system, and that by doing so they have allowed competitors to start up businesses more nimble and creative... thus putting them out of a job once and for all.
Great job #blockbuster2.0
Thing is canada post business is booming and they have skeleton staff, and are crying losses everytime one of the 5 unions is going to get offered a terrible new contract like loosing sick days and vacation, basic benefits get knocked down, and they will only be offered like 1% of the raise they are asking for. Meanwhile management union is bloated and makes for the bulk of salary even though they are still way less employees than the regular workers.
Yes I noticed. I'm waiting for my new Health card.
I am a retired supervisor. I am tired of Canada post always being slammed. The reality is Trudeau interfered with their restructure for votes in Quebec. Had the restructure been completed projections were there would have been a min of $750 milion in savings per year. Seconly, Canada is a huge country and Canada Post is the only setvice provider for all of the country. UPS, Fed Ex and others want to cherry pick where they do business. AKA work only in the area where they can make huge profits. Small business need Canada Post! The admail or junk mail people love to complain about is so successful for small business. Studies have shown it increases business by up to 600%. There are so many reasons why CPC is still relevent. The only problem is the truth is no properly promoted and communicated.
I 've lived in rural communities, I've owned a small business in the past. I would be more than happy with mail service once per week. There have also been times in my life I've gone 6 months without even checking my super mail box to the point where they stopped delivering anyway. Enjoy your fat pension on the tax payer dime. Your view is obviously biased.
Nope! I will not use the services of any business that insists on sending me junk mail. It's right up there with telemarketers calling you during dinner.
Canada post should not be paying for Trans surgeries and life long aftercare. Ridiculous
Canada post needs to adjust to the market like delivery on weekends just to compete so why the union thinks full time staff getting paid double time on weekends is the solution is why this strike will be the 2nd last nail in the coffin
USPS is run as a business as should Canada Post
Time to get rid of Canada Post... we'll rely on the private sector
I haven't gotten a bill in 2 weeks. Keep up the good protesting
The Postal Service is out of touch and a waste of tax payer money, they are not needed anymore. Take that money and put it to DND.
Revive The Old Hudson Bay Mail Delivery System
Nope. It is time to review their business model as I’m sure that mail delivery has decreased by 50% or more as many have changed their documents to online. Remember, Canada Post has lost $315 million dollars last quarter. Wake up Canada
I have two Canada post packages in limbo. What about that?
If Canada post employees today, would be like they were 50 years ago, then I might support them, but not today.
Us people in rural communities need Canada post! We don’t have roads going in and out everyday. Canada post helps us a lot!
We don't need CBC either but it still squats in Francis
I have noticed that there is a strike, because I live in the RURAL part of Canada where other delivery services are not available.
Yes , same here
The only reason charities, foundations, not for profit are upset about the postal strike is because all the donations to fund there executives salaries have dried up, thats where most of the money goes- helping the homless is the least of charities concern- sucks to be them lol
I stopped supporting most charities years and years ago.
You’re right ! My dog noticed the postal worker isn’t coming to the front door weekdays!. Have I noticed that the postal service is on strike? Nope. Personally, I’ve barely used Canada Post in the past decade, and in business, not at all. Canada Post has become an anachronism, other than for small business / charities and smaller communities. The posties may not realize it yet, but they’re convincing most of the public that the vast majority of us don’t need a national postal service anymore
Again, ppl at the top are playing politics and political correctness while ppl at the bottom will pay the price!
Time For the Citizens of Canada to launch a Few Billion Dollar Class Action Lawsuit against the Employees of Canada Post.
Instead of crapping on Canada Post SERVICE to ALL Canadians maybe do a little investigating on WHY there was 3 billion deficit over 6 years. Hint. Its not the workers wages. Why are you encouraging a race to the bottom. Truth is that most courier companies will not succeed if they charge Canada Post rates. The solution to the dilemma is twofold. Raise the rates and fire half of the management. NO more bonuses to management that are failing at making CPC viable.
It's a pretty common theme these days... Bloated staff in the offices, tons of made up bs positions. Parasites.
The CP gets paid enough! It has plenty of automation. Millions would work for less. They ruined Black Friday!! Prepaid packages should not be held for hostage!
My winter coat, boots and my medications are sitting near by somewhere.
Amazon should tell their sellers not to use Canada Post!! I am pissed.
This sucks. I'm still pissed about losing the Pony Express !
Due to this strike, I was unable to send my daughter and my only two granddaughters their Bday gifts and now their Christmas gifts. All my Christmas cards are stamped and sitting, waiting for the strike to be over. It would have cost me twice to send via courier. I will definitely look at alternative ways, next time!
There's a postal distribution center near the restaurant I'm a chef at, we've turned down their employees every day.
They deny us, we deny them.
Good job. They don’t deserve a raise. They’re being really selfish by going ok strike
Sounds like a smart business model....
Yes I notice and so do many companies, I work at a financial institution that are now having to use courier services and it cost 10 to 20% more. We receive and send easily 100 pieces of mail a day. We need a postal service. Please stop with your nonsense and online everything!! What happens when internet services crash. We need multiple options. You sir are not affected and therefore don’t see the need for anything that you don’t use.
Canada Post isn't outdated, however a federal owned and operated company should not have Unionized workers
Your right but every federal government job is union border mail rcmp and they all are big union
When the union leadership becomes responsible for all the job cuts I'm sure many of the workers would get so angry at said leadership
You have no idea how bad the deal canada post offered them is.
I live in a small farming community in Ontario have post office in our general store. Use it quite often for shipping small parcels . I actually have a couple of prepaid boxes that I can't use right now because of the strike. I would also add that this time of year and actually most time of the year the post office is quite busy with small packages.
I have a Disability tax credit cheque for $X0,000 from the CRA sitting in a room somewhere waiting for this disruption to end. So yes, I've noticed.
Maybe switch to direct deposit? CRA tax credits, CPP, and OAS go directly into my bank account.
@@joanneesposito3295 Thanks for your thoughts; its actually just a form for my GP that they need to sign before they can direct deposit the money into my account, so its technically not a cheque in the mail. They have no other way of getting this form to a GP and they're not allowed to fax it. Ugh.
Yes.. set up direct deposit.. everything from the CRA (tax refunds, climate action refunds etc). just magically appear in my chequing account. No need to wait for Canada Post.
I hope they know that my bills are sitting in their post office building and I do usually pay them . I hope they are paying my bills while they go on srike ? I just dont care what they do but go back to work !! Like i do ! Grow up , Canadian mailman!!,
I went to the post office in U.S. trying to mail several Christmas packages to family in Canada and was told about the Canada strike. To strike around Christmas time, so many people in the world are impacted. MEAN decision.
The needs of the few do not outweigh the needs of the many
Tell that to managment
They should all be fired.
Typical Toronto, thinks they are the center of the universe.
He lives in Edmonton