The first thing a business run by sane people would do when faced with torrents of red ink would be to identify the sectors with the highest costs and highest losses and cut them loose. But when you’re Canada Post, for some reason you do exactly the opposite.
“For now, people who already receive their mail via rural mailboxes will see no change,” the statement said. “These addresses are not part of the initial announcement targeting the four million addresses that still receive home delivery and will eventually be converted to community mailboxes.”
As it is at Canada Post, so shall it be in Canada. Suicide by terminal stupidity.
It would save more money to reduce mail service to 3 or 2 days a week, and they will still be able to deliver the 50 to 60% of the unaddressed items (i.e. physical spam) that is the majority of their deliveries.
Of course, that would set the unions off, because they’ll lose all those members, and won’t be able to spend too much time railing against Israel.
Canada Post is a “business” in the same sense as a “Buggy Whip” business. It is now a monument to statist redundancies for the benefit of an entitled unionized voter lobby.
Only at Canada Post could you call a 1.57 Billion dollar loss in 2025, your best year ever.
Many of Canada Post’s problems stem from government policy and actions.
How many TFW’s work as “low cost” delivery drivers? Ever see the employees inside an Amazon facility?
The government subsidizes companies like Amazon and Dragonfly to let them cheat and steal revenue from Canada Post. Over the last four years, it would be in the Billions.
UPS and FedEx get to skim the easy money off the top without any of the public service obligations Canada Post has. They should directly provide Canada Post with a slice of that revenue.
In the summer of 2024, the government could have, and should have, ordered binding arbitration for the labour situation. No one should have even heard the word strike.
There should be an investigation into some of the companies that Canada Post has sold off. InnovaPost, SCI
@StephenPunwasi has a X thread on it from October 9th, 2025.
Rural Route delivery to mail boxes in my neck of the woods was provided only on the way to small rural post offices. Most people along the route get their mail at rural group boxes. I think the last rural post office along that route has actually closed, replaced by about 100 group boxes. The marginal cost of an individual mail boxe is pretty close to nothing.
Now that Canada Post is stuffed with New Canadians, the responsible state should print up more money to keep this vital source of jobs active and expanding. Let us not forget that these New Canadians need to work for a while to become eligible for full citizenship.
Have mixed feelings about this; there are “rural” areas and there are RURAL areas. The latter are really out in the boonies, generally miles from anywhere, and don’t have access to decent internet. For them, having a mail run even twice a week would ensure timely delivery of time-sensitive mail such as bills. The alternative would be for them to have to drive many extra miles to ensure they got their bills before the payment deadline. One would say that they have to into town for shopping anyway, if not for church or social events, but that response is seriously inadequate. Even in town, we can go for a week or more without doing shopping and I am sure rural residents are even better at minimizing their trips to the local grocery/pharmacy/etc shop. As well, trips at other times would probably be when a lot of facilities are closed (banks, post offices, etc) which would mean an extra trip to pay bills and sort out issues.
As for the “rural” areas closer to towns, they’ve probably all been switched to community mailboxes anyway. Provided the mailboxes are positioned in an area close to the main travel routes of the community as they head for work and shopping, that’s okay. Have family whose community lost door-to-door service some years ago, but the community mail box is right along the road they head out on daily. They’re quite happy with the situation and say at least this way no one can tell by your mail box that you’re away. Do wonder, however, how happy the homeowner is who lives next to said boxes.
I have lived in a house right across the street from a community mailbox and now live with one at the end of our long driveway. No problem, secure and very handy. People don’t hang around, make noise or cause trouble. A smile and a wave maybe.
“generally miles from anywhere, and don’t have access to decent internet.”
BULLSHIT!!!!
Well, yes, he would have access to decent bullshit. But I don’t see how that compensates.