At this point, I doubt that any measures are going to amount to anything other than flogging a dead horse.
Ottawa said the corporation is losing about $10 million per day, despite providing a $1-billion injection earlier this year to keep it operational. Since 2018, Canada Post has accumulated more than $5 billion in losses including more than $1 billion last year alone.
But Canada Post’s business model is meant to support communities across the country — especially those in remote locations who are hardest for private firms to reach — rather than chase profits, said Ann Armstrong, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Institute for Management and Innovation.
“There is something sacrosanct about a postal service,” she said.
“It seems to me the model is perfectly viable and needs to be preserved, if perhaps costs and so on need to be adjusted.”
The Canadian government will dump billions of dollars into money losers domestic and foreign daily.
Why not Canada Post?
Because it serves Canadians, and not special interests?
The solution to Canada Post is SO SIMPLE
Put me in charge please.
Eliminate all hand delivered mail. No more letter carriers. Sorry, you’ve gone the way of the Kodak Camera, it’s sad but a reality that must be accepted.
Post offices/box stations for all.
Just like we in the rural areas have survived with for over a hundred years.
Stop “Two-Tier Mail Service”! Haha
Would break even from day one once we eliminate the posties. And trim the executive team. 3 guys and a coffee maker can sort this damn thing out.
I was going to comment that if you got rid of junk mail, Canada Post would die in a week. But instead, this sentence got me thinking …
“said Ann Armstrong, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Institute for Management and Innovation.”
What the hell does she do?
Ann Armstrong and all other professors should pay more taxes.
“said Ann Armstrong, a professor at U of T” and now self identified as another person who has not spent a day in the real world, or received a dollar not first beaten out of a taxpayer.
“What the hell does she do?”
The answer is in the question. “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.”
She does nothing, which is why she teaches.
Despite all the evidence laid out before her she believes the business model is viable.
Does the professor still hand write and mail love letters to all her girlfriends? Does she dot her ‘i’s’ with hearts? Or does she just send naked t*t pics to them? Just curious what she considers “innovative” and contemporary?
Well there it is I guess- A page right from the communist playbook. Provide a service to provide employment… watch the service degrade into an utter joke if employees know they’re untouchable.
Time to blow the dust off of my Soviet Union joke book.
A man complains about the postal service to a friend.
The friend says, “At least you got a letter!”
The man replies, “Yes, but it was addressed to someone else!”
Shish boom.
As soon as I read or hear the phrase “university professor” quoted as someone with an analysis or expert status, I start to tune out.
A brainwashed ideologue existing in a nice, safe, bubble wrapped echo chamber, completely isolated from the consequences of his/her/its beliefs and advice.
Oh….add in…who has never actually done anything.
Ok….not all profs are like that. But the ones who get quoted usually are.
That Prof is a DEI hire and the “Institute for Management and Innovation” was probably setup to “balance” the lack of diversity in the University. It would be interesting to find the group photo of the Institute just to see who was hired. I suspect a lot of the Universities are like this, full of useless groups of unemployable people with no marketable skills.
Can someone explain why reducing home delivery to two days per week is never mentioned? I have been advocating this for ten years. The only cost-cutting solution I have seen mentioned is elimination of home delivery completely, resulting in building large banks of boxes. How far away will the boxes be? Can seniors and disabled access them? The boxes still have to be stuffed. Surely the union would prefer reduced service to elimination of letter carriers…as would most of us.
I am a senior. I live in a rural area. I have to walk down the street to the town post office to pick up my mail. Door to door delivery should not be some kind of sacred untouchable cow just for city people, even seniors and the disabled.
Or less, twice a month.
The union doesn’t want any cuts, because it reduces both their power, and their funding.
Starting about 5 years ago I began redirecting all my mail to email. My bank statements are online as pdf files. I pay bills by e-transfer and wire. My invoices are sent by email. I get paid by wire transfer. The only thing I get in the mail is CRA-related printouts (also available online) and junk mail.
Imagine if the government shut down the postal service and then made it illegal to have a P O Box as a business address.
There was a romantic argument to be made that in an era where most communication was by written letter, being able to post a letter to anywhere in the country for the same price unified the people. Next door, Cornerbrook Nfld., NWT, all 25 cents (or whatever).
Ubiquitous Internet access has removed that argument, and ubiquitous cheap satellite Internet means even the most remote communities can send email worldwide.
Probably the best modern argument for preserving some kind of federal delivery service is secure delivery of government communications like CRA notifications, passports, summonses, etc. I’m not convinced that private couriers are serving that niche adequately; my employer just sent me a $2000 MacBook that was supposed to require a signature and ID verification. They dropped it at my doorstep, didn’t even ring the doorbell.
And these private services will not deliver to rural communities like where I live. I am a senior with limited mobility and no one care that I have been unable to get anything from Amazon since this strike started. And that’s not the only delivery service affected.
Was that private delivery man a Chinese person driving a white van? Cause my neighborhood is filled with them … speaking of drivers with no English proficiency.
Throw the keys to the brothers and sisters and end the monopoly on first class mail. If they can’t compete as a co-op with all the gifted assets of Canada Post, they deserve the creative destruction of the free market. Amazon could deliver bulk mail to isolated and urban centers where locals could pick up mail from boxes. CUPW deserves to be resigned to the dustbin of history.
Is there any place in this world where a post office makes a profit or at least breaks even?
It pleases me that the demise of Canada Post is occurring while there is a #Librano gov’t in charge. Equally so that it’s a fully unionized endeavor and the gov’t of the day is like a deer in the headlights as to not knowing what to do with it and not wanting to anger their base. That’s essentially the same reason we’re stuck with gov’t mandated tier 2 medical care in Canada, the entire military needs new equipment, roads are crumbling… all of the judicial system is failing, everything #Librano = garbage.
Everything they control, turns to garbage.
They think adding a few $ billion will repair it? What? And maybe make sending Christmas cards mandatory too?
It makes sense that Canada Post is a dysfunctional black hole, as the post is a fundamental component of any properly functioning nation. Are we a properly functioning nation?
The post office loses money?
The whole fcking government is a money loser.
You could eliminate 50% of all of it and reduce the employee numbers by 90% for the remainder except DND.
Money has no meaning to an asshole prime minister who wants to do illegal accounting to cover up gross mismanagement of spending.
Shithole.
The postal union should speak to the lamplighter’s union about how to lever, er maybe not, okay then, the telephone operator’s union, um, ah, okay, well how about the sailmakers’ . . . oh never mind.
Chimney Sweepers…
Door to Door Coal Deliverers…
Stagecoach Drivers…
and here l made a note to myself to switch all my billing and banking info to paperless.
let me rephrase that *letter carrierless*
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!
hey mel butler letter carrier of 11 romko court st catharines that parlayed your exorbitant (translation UNION BLACKMAILED) wages into afternoon on the golf course, new vehicle aaaaaaand that spanking new . . . . . . . . INGROUND POOL.’,
ummmm howzit goin’????
jeezuz murphy this is so bloody satisfying these privileged high school grads making more than DOUBLE for what??? WALKING??? a teeny bit of READING and *still* it got misdirected??
I think it’s about time that the union learned that Crown Corporations can go bankrupt, and all of upper management needs to be fired at the same time.