Globe and Mail- Canada Post should phase out door-to-door delivery as part of overhaul, report recommends
Canada Post has lost at least $3-billion since 2018, driven by a drop in letter mail volume. In January, it received a $1.034-billion loan from the federal government to help cover operations this year.
In its latest annual report, Canada Post said “at least $1-billion will also be needed in 2026 and each year afterward to maintain operations and meet our employee obligations.”
Only 1 billion more? We are so far in debt, what does it even matter now? Carney and the Liberals are going to put us into a debt crisis that we are never going to get out of, so what’s another billion?
Buy gold and don’t stop if you have the money.
Forget door-to-door delivery. Canada Post should have been phased out years ago.
canada post is as about relevant as pony express. shut it down
Carney will cut the cheques. These new debts will never be seen by the elderly who like their mail “service”. Many of these same elderly just might make it to anorher election though.
Merely one more shining example of why the gov’t has no business being in business.
In my area of southern Manitoba there is still a rural delivery route with about 50 mail boxes on it. There’s no way Canada Post makes money on that, but for some reason the route persists. That should be an instant candidate for shut down.
Canada Post was created to provide a reliable and efficient postal service to Canadians, facilitating communication and commerce across the country’s vast and often remote regions but was never intended to be a money-maker for the government.
Canada’s vast distances and scattered population made a national postal service essential for connecting communities. A reliable postal system was crucial for trade, business, and the movement of goods (especially before modern telecommunications).
It supported governance by enabling official correspondence between colonial (and later federal) authorities and citizens, ensuring that all Canadians, including those in rural and northern areas, had access to mail at standardized rates.
In 1763, British North America took over postal operations after the Seven Years’ War. The first postage stamps were issued in the Province of Canada in 1851.
The Dominion of Canada’s postal system was federalized under the Post Office Department in 1867 and reorganized as a Crown corporation in 1981 to modernize services and achieve financial sustainability.
Well, it’s neither “reliable” nor “efficient” other than to deliver Unaddressed Commercial Mail (AKA Spam).
The world has moved on, I would accept mail delivery 1 day a week, as pretty much everything else can get delivered electronically.
That would also mean they can cut the workforce of postmen by 80% give or take.
UPS was started by two teenagers in 1908 delivering by bicycles. Canada post was started in the same era . Today UPS is a worldwide multibillion dollar industry, while Canada Post continues to rely on hand outs from the government
As is the canadian way.
What will we ever do without the beer store.. errr, I mean Canada Post.. But then again it is a lot of direct and indirect jobs.. Junk mail, charity money laundering.. This sort of stuff likes a paper trail.. And that is the main problem with snail mail.. Their main customers are grifters and salespeople..
No real money or need supporting it.. Just hopes and dreams $$$$.. And old soon to be gone paper loving boomers?.. How much does it cost to deliver a piece of paper?..
every time you see one of these nepotism hires in a Canada Post uniform, just remember $1,500 per week which is essentially a paper route. Out of control for the work involved, uniforms supplied, exercise included with the job eliminating the need for gym memberships, no possibility of being fired, and le coup degrasse a fully indexed pension at retirement. How sweet it is
Canada Post should never have been allowed to unionize. That was the beginning of the end. And the government of Canada wants everything to fail so why should this institution be exempt? I have moved all my bills with the exception of one or two to online delivery. Let it die and force the rest of the bills to moved onto the internet.
Yeah, all my real stuff is online, from banking to bills to whatever, for good or ill.
However, my local postal dude stuffs my mailbox with flyers and coupons, which I glance at before dumping them into my special blue box.
How long ago did CRA start direct deposit?
When did the CPP-OAS start direct deposit?
When did the GST and CO2 rebates start direct deposit?
Does the left hand kniw where the right hand is?
What’s your MP’s fax number to let em know how you feel about this?
Last month I mailed a package to Ontario from Vancouver. It was about 30 inches long, 15 inches wide and 10 deep…very light, it weighed about 3-4 pounds. I asked for my options, not having any idea of the current rates.
$31 for 7-10 day shipping
$89 for 3-4 day shipping
Two other options of more than $100 (I assume 2 day and overnight?)
I asked, where are the 50-60-70 dollar options? He had no answer. So I went with the cheapest one, for $31 dollars. Later when I get home it suddenly dawns on me that I paid more than $40…why?
Taxes and a *fuel surcharge* is why the $31 dollar option actually costs $42. Should have asked FedEx or UPS for prices, I guess…
So cut back home delivery to 2/week and lay 1/2 of the delivery people off.
They have been much better lately at delivering my mail to my house rather than their occasional hit or miss delivery location system.
My last online order shipping to me was Canada Post regular at $21, or Purolator overnight at $20…..
“My last online order shipping to me was Canada Post regular at $21, or Purolator overnight at $20…..”
Both of which are actually Canada Post. Why such a huge price/performance difference, I wonder?
Dinosaur system that didn’t see the Fed Ex, or UPS asteroids coming for them.
Letter mandate could be met with forever stamps and real-time software that equalizes the price of mailing a letter locally or across the country. Private entities could compete to meet the mandate.
Simply raise the stamp price to $9.92/stamp x 8 pane booklet = $79.36.
https://store.canadapost-postescanada.ca/store-boutique/en/414240111/p/truth-and-reconciliation-permanent-domestic-rate-stamps-booklet-of-8
And perhaps that will help fund some shovels … so the REAL truth can get reconciled.
Could have kept Stephen Harper.
https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/postal-workers-speak-out-against-harpers-privatization-plan-515051751.html
Stephen Harper was great at talking but poor at accomplishing. Just another GD easterner who pretended to know the west…
So you ARE a dumb biker ….
Harper was a great PM.
He reduced the GST from 7% to 5%.
He gave us the Tax Free Savings program which I have used to save money for retirement as do many others who do not have a lovely government pension …
He forced the Indians to open their books and account for the billions they are given each year which allows the chiefs and their families to get rich and act like dictators while the rest of the tribes get nothing That bit of sanity was reversed by the idiot, Trudeau …
Harper also guided us through the bad global economy and collapse we had in 2008 to about 2011. At the end of that period Canada was NUMBER ONE economically in the G7 …WE ARE NOW AT THE VERY BOTTOM OF THAT LINE UP …
Canada did incredibly better under Harper than the following 10 years of horrors under the… dumb-shit, Trudeau and his adviser for last five of those years, Mark Carney
Harper sucked balls. Nine years in power with a 4 year majority and all you can come up w/ is 4 lousy “accomplishments”? That should be a slow Tuesday afternoon. I can list one or two more (abolishing the CWB) but let’s take a look at a real “great” leader: Donald J Trump. In the first 100 days he wrote 150 EO’s, kicked out thousands of illegal aliens, got a great start on draining the swamp, has already saved taxpayers hundreds of billions of $$$ through DOGE and has promises from countries the planet over for trillions of $$$ of investment in the US.
Among other unfinished business, Harper also left how many open Senate seats? At best, Harper was a tepid PM. At worst, he was Lieberal Lite, just like PP is. Merely another establishment politician
Did he do this shithole of a country better than Blackie? Of course. It’s not even a discussion. But there was so much more he could have done & didn’t. The only way Canuckistan will survive is w/ a firebrand conservative. Another plate of wet noodles isn’t gonna make it.
You really lived up to your name with that comment.
Hey, Shorty, if you have a point to make, then do so. It’s pretty safe to just throw names around from the sidelines.
Solve the problem simply. No more admail. Raise stamp to $2. No home delivery – group boxes only. Twice a week delivery to group boxes – Mon/Thurs, Tues/Fri, Wed/Sat. If a business wants daily delivery, have a huge volume or rent a post office box. Snail mail is dead. Deal with it.
Harper had almost gotten rid of home delivery but the Jackass Trudeau made an election promise to stop switching to group boxes.
If you placed an Air-Tag on every carrier you’d quickly learn how little the job entails.
In our small town, these jobs are family legacy jobs, with the routes completed well before noon…..It’s part time work with full time pay.
Since a strike in 2009/2010 (I was still living in Calgary) I have gone to doing everything on-line – receive my utility i invoices on line, pay bills on line, receive my CRA refunds on line and CPP/OAS are direct deposit. I DO still like to send out birthday cards (down to 2) and Christmas cards. Since my sister died, the only snail mail is related to her estate. The proposed strike will slow down completion of the estate by at least 2 months, oh well….
I’ll be the dissenter here. The strike in Dec. caused much grief for our small business. Sending and receiving warranty items, mailing components was near impossible. Couriers were 3 times the cost and did not deliver to some of our remote customers. AB is just to big to drive and hand deliver product.
CP needs to get their collective act in order.
The federal government subsidizes:
The CBC, which nobody watches
Electric Vehicles, which nobody is buying
Canada Post, which nobody uses.