Nine years to fully end door to door mail delivery? There’s obviously no sense of urgency despite the mounting losses. And no obvious outrage among taxpayers. That’s Canada for you.
Joël Lightbound, minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement, said last fall that the process to eliminate most door-to-door service would take about nine years, with most of it expected to be completed in the first four.
Canada Post lost $841 million before tax in 2024.
No door-to-door mail delivery here, but somehow the bills still find me.
Except for a couple of years in the early 1990s, I have never had mail delivered to my door. It was either go to the post office or the community mailbox.
The government propaganda department makes it sound like these community mailboxes are something totally new. “This is how they will work.”
I had a community mail box (well, my parents did) more than half a century ago. I’ve had home delivery most of my adult life, but I won’t miss it if I don’t have it. Nothing that I actually need comes in the mail.
Remember Jean Claude Parrot?
When email started gaining popularity, Jean Claude (head of the union) proposed that the government require all email be sent to the post office, where a union worker would print it, stuff it in an envelope, and drop it into a sorting bin in the post office. The post office would then deliver the email.
Good old Jean Claude Parrot. Now there was a guy who would send you the bill!
I think I made a voodoo doll of him. I probably burned it for good measure.
Hope you were up wind.
yep.
he was boss in the 80s when the mantra was 40 for 30. 40 hours pay for 30 hours work.
l saw it in huge lettering on the side of a wrecking yard fence
it was kinda like that anyway, l lived beside and across the street from 2 letter carriers.
Mel had lots of time to go golfing and lots of money to put in a pool.
gawd how the mighty have fallen,
Nine years to put up some community mail boxes, is the Liberal definition of project building at a new, never before seen speed??
Wait until you see how long it takes to build high speed rail! In the East, no less, and in the West not at all.
Liberal strategy 101
Kick The Can Down The Road.
Everything about Liberals is the same. Make promises for way down the road. That way, they have the same two golden excuses when they FAIL.
1. Economic conditions/demands have changed.
2. It’s the other guy’s fault.
Rinse and Repeat.
The post office is especially egregious, it’s the definition of a useless parasite, as are many of the members of CUPW. Military retirees that refuse to adapt to the real world.
This is why our countries (U.S./Canada) are ultimately doomed. There has been a compelling case for getting rid of these multi-billion dollar postal services for decades now, and yet our government overlords don’t give a rat’s *** and still can’t be bothered to get it done. We’re sort of resigned to the fact that our countries are running on fumes as it is, and one is like, “Well, it can’t possibly get any worse, right? Maybe we can somehow pull out of this death spiral, right? I have to stay positive, right?” And then a 23yo YouTuber (Nick Shirley) comes out of the blue and reveals that it’s 100 times worse than you thought. That we’re being robbed blind of tens of billions of dollars by subhuman Somalis who arrived 10 minutes ago and Democrats are all like – “yeah, we know, we don’t care, and we’re not going to do a damn thing about it because they all vote for us and also because we’re commies at heart. You’re just figuring this out now?”
Anyone who hasn’t seen a community mailbox and can’t/won’t figure it out without a CBC cow telling them how is either a retarded shut-in or a mewling quim just trying to raise a stink worse than their cobwebbed va-jayjay.
CP was transitioning to community mailboxes when the Turd was elected. One of his platforms was to stop the transition, but only if it had not already occurred. (The only transition the Turd didn’t approve of?)
Now it is a good thing according to the LIB’s.
9 years to do the rest of Canada sounds like a Brookfield contract.
My community mailbox identifies as a Thing and it’s pronouns are The/It.
Community mailboxes are right up there with urban bus service in my book. Inconvenient (especially in bad weather), frequently damaged by thieves and vandals, same cost with worse service. I don’t really care if it’s an expensive and perhaps marginally useful function. Government wastes far more money doing other things that are of no value at all – EV rebates, carbon capture schemes, foreign aid, supporting fake refugees, the list is endless.)
I have had mine vandalised. Because I couldn’t tell if anything had been stolen the CPS refused to make a report. Only CP could report it. Trying to speak to CP about it was impossible. Two months later CP shows up, “Here is your new key.”
Since the boxes have been recently upgraded, CP says it will now charge the user for vandalism repairs.
The new boxes should only accept first class mail….and give the bloody flyer routes back to the kids. We don’t need vastly overpaid union goons to do that.
bingo. zhobs for all the laid off Cdn Timmies displacia (a word l invented)
When the buggy whip industry is a function of the state, it’s a corpse propped up forever feeding Marxist union bosses and an employment (I refuse to say workforce) population of entitled malcontents. It needs to be given to its “brothers and sisters” and freed from its first class mail monopoly and set free to compete with thousands of other folks. They can use their assets to secure working capital and if they don’t lose their union and union mentality, the banks will own all their assets within 6 months and they will have learned life lessons that they have been sheltered from since they were hired as posties. Speaking of corpses, same solution for the CBC.
Here’s a clicker. Canada Post buys Purolator. Purolator, last year, bought Livingston International (a multinational freight forwarding and customs brokerage firm – largest in Canada).
The government has no business in business. Crown Corporations go from being revenue generators to nothing more than a means for the government to push policy. They also push private competitors out of business.
Parasitism is an art.
Canada Post lost $841 million before tax in 2024. and broke even after tax.
Imagine owning a stable in 1907. Or several stables. Or acquiring a monopoly of stables. Or owning several radio stations in the 1970s. Or having a monopoly in the telephone industry just before the invention of cell phones. There is only one thing that can save you. Government.
“Canada Post lost $841 million before tax in 2024.”
Does Canada have unpaid tax debts or are they expecting to have repayments from taxes paid in the previous 3 years using carryback?
Yeah, soo.. there’s always a hook in that bait. The absolutely hilarious thing about this simmering crock of bullshit, is that somewhere out there, some idiot is pontificating on how this will actually save the taxpayer money.. If the Canadian postal service is anything like America’s, they will be successfully lobbying for a 3%-5% budget boost every year to implement this masterstroke of bureaucratic genius. Your post office will swell with
grifters‘administrators’ who will oversee the transition from ‘Too many chiefs, and too many indians’, to ‘way, way, waaaaay too many chiefs, not enough indians’, and within 9 years, the post office will be a buzzing hive of mid-level management cash-sponges, just going through the motions, and overseeing a handful of actual letter carriers,.. service will go from awful to downright atrocious. Any hope of actually ‘saving money’ will be dashed against the rocks, as those generous severance and pension packages get cashed in, and then the post office will have to choose between servicing pension debt, or actually.. you know.. deliver some mail..There shouldn’t even be such a thing as mail anymore, in any form. There are far better ways of transmitting data than printing it on paper, sticking it in a box for someone to take to a sorting station to putting it in piles for other people to deliver to people like me who look at it for a fraction of a second then throw it in the garbage without even opening it. If it was important they’d sent email.
Soo.. you’ve never never gotten a birthday card with cash in it before? Final paycheck from a company you did not want having access to your banking info after you left? Never ordered a parcel or package delivered by your postal service? There are more than a few reasons for a postal infrastructure, but that’s not what this is. The point behind my post is that, for the U.S. postal service, they have become a lifetime trustfund for for petty bureaucrats that occasionally send their funkies out to deliver some mail. And even if you eliminated it all today, the debt service on pension packages will linger for decades, ‘require’ an army of petty bureaucrats to oversee the servicing of those obligations, and generate their on obligations in a perpetual manner.. meanwhile, there is now *no* mail being delivered, only money taxpayer cash being delivered into people’s pockets. Not unlike herpes, there is just no getting rid of them..
Several thousand less Liberal voters is a good start.
20 some % of the population still to parse.
1 in 5 in Canada work for Government.
All Liberal voters no doubt.
Sure is nice that 4 out of 5 Canadians ensure that that fifth Canadian has pay, perks, pension and plunder they don’t enjoy.
Mandarinate mania.