Tonight On Unsolved Mysteries

16 Replies to “Tonight On Unsolved Mysteries”

1. Remember Jean Claude Parrot (sp?).

   One of his proposals concerned email.

   The union’s position was that all emails would go to the Post Office, where a union member would print it off, stick it in an envelope, address it and then mail it.

2. It hardly matters who or what is to blame. All national mail services are in irreversible decline: Canada Post, US Mail, Royal Mail simply to name a few. They are being wiped out by technology and the fact that all companies including government have other ways and means of transferring payments other than mailing cheques. The written and mailed letter is as obsolete as the telegram of the 19th century. Within a few decades countries will begin shutting down some or all of their ‘national’ mail services. Traditional mail service cannot be saved any more than department stores can be resurrected as an industry. It’s simply a question of how long the losses will continue before the shutdowns commence.

   1. If CUPW wasn’t holding them back, they could compete in the parcel delivery space.

      1. No government operation can compete with the private sector, ever. Period. Full stop.

         1. Sloganeering BS.
            CP provides a better parcel service than Fedex, Purolator or UPS.

            1. Purolator (emphasis on the later part) is owned by CP, so your argument is a bit jaded.

            2. Whatever. Its still profitable, and its service still sucks compared to CP, just like UPS and Fedex, and DHL suck when compared to CP parcel delivery service.
               Purolator is around 90% owned by CP, IIRC.

   2. Royal Mail was privatized in 2013, as was Deutsche Post, Japan Post, CTT Correios de Portugal.

      And Canada post is functionally bankrupt, but can’t go through the process, because it’s a crown corp(se)

3. Canada Post Nation…

4. My local carrier (who is a good guy and a hard worker) and I had a long chat about Canada Post. He said that like all big organizations (health care being a perfect example) the management bloat is so bad that he’s convinced that Canada Post is an engineered demolition of itself that’s deliberate.

   I can’t say I disagree with him.

5. Why hasn’t “Learn to Code” appeared as advice yet? Maybe it should be learn to do web development instead, since actual coding is so passé. Still remember some COBOL and printed code instructions on carboard sheets to insert into the code reader….. ah the good old days….

6. lets go back to pioneer days.
   no phones.
   no courier service.
   no electronic communications.
   smoke signals unreliable.
   no telegraph.
   we need a means of communication for commoners.
   da gubbamint steps in created a monopoly.
   fast fwd 200 years. oh look. losta ways of communicating real fast.
   or slow but cheaper because of competition.

   ummmm, teacher!! I got a question !!!!
   what is it fp?
   why do we need a very expensive and inefficient government mail system?

   well fp, they need to now find a niche they’re good at, specialize, become profitable and leave the rest of it to the market . . . .

7. I have now switched over and get all of my bills as e-mails. Have you?

8. Just shut the damned thing down and give the flyer routes back to kids.

9. The ONLY use I have for the USPS is … Priority Mail under certain circumstances … otherwise … it’s Media Mail.
   
   Media Mail®
   From $4.63 at the Post Office
   From $3.26 for Commercial Pricing

   That’s how I buy and sell vinyl. Shipped via Media Mail … cheapest yet … if I havent found it in the Record Store.

10. Normally, when I hear of posts being driven into the ground, I assume it’s Dr. Van Helsing doing his thing, and I leave him his space. But that may not be appropriate here.