It’s polls like these which demonstrate why Canada is not a serious country. Most voters would be happy to entertain national bankruptcy rather than let go of any aspect of the nanny state.
The poll of about 4,000 adults conducted from June 2 to June 8 said 59 per cent opposed selling Canada Post while 29 per cent favoured selling it. The margin narrowed when it came to privatization, with 47 per cent against the idea and 38 per cent for it, though that only related to certain parts of the crown corporation.
Reduce Canada Post to it’s core service, first class mail and small parcels with delivery to group boxes once a week. Courier, ad mail, or large parcels, go somewhere else. If you’re an individual or business and want daily delivery, rent a post office box for too much money. Snail mail is dead but is still necessary for many people.
We have a PO Box in a nice post office in our town, and get parcels over the counter. I’d be happy to pay $10 a month for that. Instead, it’s “free”, so we’re probably at risk of it closing.
I have a post office box for a former business but some mail still comes to it. It costs me something like $250 a year. I choke and pay it.
Angus Reid.
Anxious lead
So if CP ends delivery how is the city going to send me my tax bill ? Another thought, does this mean I avoid jury duty if I refuse to use electronic correspondence ?
Re: Jury Duty … here in the States the US Constitution assures you a Jury of your peers. Well, here in my 85% white peaceful suburban city, and in my 75% white peaceful County … we get called to Jury duty. But! For the last 20-years, we’ve never been called to ANY of our local Muni or County courts. Nope. Now we get called to Richmond, CA Courts … which is … uh … technically in our County … but is 95% black, 95% dangerous for white folk to visit, and somewhere I would NEVER choose to go.
So my sweet, tiny, defenseless wife has to drive to the ghetto … risk life and limb … just to get excused from Jury duty for being too damn white to be any defendants peer.
Yes, our public servants are doing this on purpose. Pssst … your social engineering ain’t working. You’re just making it worse.
This is quite interesting. I was going to say that The Royal Mail has been a thing since Henry VIII andd why should we junk it now, but then I went and searched it.
It turns out that The Royal Mail, which has been a thing since Henry VIII, WAS SOLD OFF in 2011 to the highest bidder. It is now a private company called “Royal Mail” and has nothing of royalty about it whatsoever.
Latest news is that it is being bought up and stripped for parts by banksters, just like Toys R Us.
Showed me, I guess. My historical objection no longer stands. Sell it!
Royal Mail, Dueschmail (DHL) and Japan all privatized their mail systems quite a while ago. Canada Post should have followed the same path, but now they are the biggest spam mail delivery company around.
If I was to offer 2x Canada Post’s value, with the only conditions being once a week delivery, and decertify the union/s while agreeing that if there’s a future union drive I’ll shut it down and sell the properties.
Would I own Canada Post? or would the entrenched MSM point at me as an example of the hate which isn’t welcome in Canada?
My point is, Canada Post has been very averse to change, and if anyone employed there realized that… perhaps that’s the person who should be negotiating the final days of Canada Post, and not the sort of people who thought printing your emails and then hand delivering them in days to follow, as was the plan at the dawn of email being a thing…
and not the folks who believe Canada is a dominion of excellence from sea to sea.
2x zero is still zero, it’s functionally bankrupt, propped up by loans from the government, the most recent being $1 billion.
I suspect the land and buildings value is something. I brief search says it’s worth $14 Billion, which I doubt unless those buildings are all located in downtown areas, and are Canada Post owned buildings, which I doubt.
You don’t even need to sell it as a business. It’s probably worth more to disband then sell off the real estate assets for redevelopment. If there is a market for the service either a new company would form or the existing companies in the industry would pick up the slack. I have home mail delivery, but I wouldn’t miss it at all if I didn’t.
Once again, it’s important that you look through the survey to see what is being surveyed.
“The Angus Reid Institute conducted an online survey from June 2 – 8, 2025, among a randomized sample of 4,067 Canadian adults who are members of Angus Reid Forum. The sample was weighted to be representative of adults nationwide according to region, gender, age, household income, and education, based on the Canadian census. For comparison purposes only, a probability sample of this size would carry a margin of error of +/- 1.5 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. Discrepancies in or between totals are due to rounding. The survey was self-commissioned and paid for by ARI. ”
Once again, since it’s a self selected group, you can’t calculate the margin of error as if it was a random sample of Canadians. The other part of it, is the probability sample they are comparing it to is for the full slate of 4k people, not the subdivided parts.
I know I don’t want to pay yet another $20 to the government for a poorly run organization, that full of unions hostile to normalcy.
Bejabbers…I’d surely cotton to the idea of giving ol’ Angus a dollar or two of me money to make buggy whips.
Said no one ever in 1920
Shut it down and give the flyer routes back to the kids.