As the post office inevitably transitions to a horrifically expensive junk mail delivery service, this allegedly climate-change driven “death trap” is starting to look more like a suicide pact. The postal strike has certainly pushed me to go paperless for all my critical invoices and to use Amazon or a courier for parcel delivery from now on. I’m quite certain I’m not the only one.
Enslin, 41, has worked at Canada Post for 16 years and said the extreme weather brought on by climate change — whether it’s inhaling smoke from wildfires or delivering mail during storms — has added significant physical and mental pressure to their jobs.
And that’s one of the reasons postal workers are demanding more support for these challenges in their new contract, he said.
Yes, I can see how being a postal worker is really hard on your teeth — NOT!
Receiving 20 plus requests per day from customers who would like to pay via EFT. We are changing from physical cheques to EFT payments so Canada Post lose even more revenue. They apparently do not understand they no longer have a monopoly.
When the Post Office pulled this “S**t” back in 2015, the company which I worked for, was already sending out their invoices via email and sometimes paid bills by wire transfer. The accounting department immediately contacted all of customers and gave them wire transfer instructions to send payment. The only customer who did NOT comply was Whole Foods Market in the United States because they are “special”. I do not know if the company still sells to them or not. As well Whole Foods would always deduct 10% of the payment because they “paid on time” – which they never did – once it took 6 months for payment because they had “lost” the order which was delivered to the correct warehouse but was placed in a part of the warehouse where it should not have been. They still deducted 10% of the payment. Perhaps you can guess but I am not a big fan of Whole Foods Markets!
I cannot wait until Canada Post is privatized like the postal services in Germany and Great Britain!
Many (most?)?of the posties have come from countries that are much, much hotter than Canada. How did they survive?
The Daily Courier (Kelowna BC) headline July 31, 1958
“FOREST FIRE DAMAGE HITS RECORD NATIONWIDE PEAK”
“300 British Columbia Fires Destroy 50,000 Acres; Million More Ablaze”
No where in the article is “climate change” mentioned.
Nothing new under the sun, but for what or who gets blamed!
Did the arsonist get a mention?
Further on the front page Manitoba had 296 fires burning 585,000 acres.
No mention of a postal strike.
Try to get drivers licence replaced. Ontario government has no plan to deliver. Have to wait even though it’s been 4 weeks. Checked today at Service Ontario and can’t expedite. Going to Europe in January and need to rent a car. Not sure paper copy is good enough. This is the only issue I have with the post office. Government can’t figure anything out. No backup plan. Thats what happens when you’re a monopoly.
Sadly the government (fed or provincial) is just as backward as Canada Post. It should be able to courier things like passports and driver’s licenses. Perhaps charge a little more for that alternative. I’d pay for it if it meant the end of Canada Post. Besides how often do you need to get a new passport (10 year) or health card/driver’s licence (5 years)?
had to do a number of passports, 2 of 3 have been sent to an office that is inconvenient to get to. The third is in limbo, because the passport officer wants to know about the maiden name of the 15 yr old…
lunatics one and all
Me: Same issue, different province, Saskatchewan: different destination, Australia. Not looking forward to trying to rent a car with a temporary licence. Prov gov’t refuses to create & implement a backup plan.
Ditto in bc. They will NEVER be forgiven for messing up XMAS 2024.
20 years ago Alberta just gave you a new one at the registry with a colour photo.
Then they decided not to. Now we get one mailed with a black and white photo. Progress!
Just downscale the post office. End the last of home delivery. End unaddressed ad mail. Double the letter rate to $2. Mail delivery one or two days a week. Lay off 30,000 employees. It is obsolete – start winding it down.
Absolutely. Canada Post is no longer good value for money (if it ever was). The hook they used to have was related to rural delivery, but whenever an entrepreneur in a rural area wanted to establish a delivery service to rural homes, Canada Post would squash them. They have now outlived their usefulness. Remembering how they used to hold the population hostage to their strike actions and how Canada Post prices just keep going up and up, it is somewhat satisfying to see that they are now hoisted on their own petard. They also stole business from kids who used to earn a bit of money delivering flyers. Good bye Canada Post.
sell canada post to DHL for $1.00. since there is no contract and employees have walked off the job, they can all be laid off. Those who want to work can sign on with DHL at minimum wage.
Neither snow, nor hail, nor sleet, nor snow….
However that used to go…
Snail mail is dead, don’t ya know…
Dead Crown corp would save us some dough
Ho Ho Ho
There is still door to door delivery??! My AB town of 8000 got community boxes in 1998. When will govts keep pace with with change?
The ineptitude is stunning.
My neighborhood in Calgary got community mailboxes in early 2015, just before Trudeau came in. One of his campaign promises was to suspend all further conversions to community mailboxes. One of the very few, and stupidest, promises the bonehead ever delivered on. I LOVE my community mailbox. Don’t have to check it every day, my mail is secure in a locked box, I can receive most parcels also in a secure locked box.
Well, you are fortunate. I have NEVER received a Canada Post parcel at my home address in in Vancouver for 27 years. I get a flicking card for pick-up in a location that has no parking.
I do get very late snail mail in a community box, plus junk mail.
3 billion in the red since 2018. Any private company would have gone under in a year. Let them strike for a year by then people and businesses would have adjusted. Bye bye. CBC next
Climate Change? No.
The real reason?
Posties are upset that, unlike most government workers, they can’t ‘work’ from home.
The posties can just take the mail home and we can go to their house and get it……problem solved.
“Enslin, 41, has worked at Canada Post for 16 years and said the extreme weather brought on by climate change — whether it’s inhaling smoke from wildfires or delivering mail during storms — has added significant physical and mental pressure to their jobs.”
No surprise. I used to know many years ago a gang who worked in a small urban post office. They would play enormous games like this to ensure that they would have to be paid overtime to complete the week’s mail sorting. Naturally, that post office was closed, and they were all out on the street.
Install those neighborhood superboxes. No more carriers slipping on slick driveways or breathing smoke.
Waitaminit. Wasn’t climate change supposed to have ended snow and ice by now?
Yes it was. About 10 yrs ago
Don’t worry. Carbon tax goes up in the new year. That’ll fix it.
A great result of the strike has been discovering a new cheap shipping startup, Chit Chats. Only problem is no location very near me. Need to convince a business in the nearest city to become a drop-off location. Will likely never go back to Canada Post.
Climate change is awesome.
Job is too tough for any canadian, just shut it down…
I pick up at a PO and I’m good with it. I just don’t get their wacky pricing. It used to be cheap reliable cross country small package shipping but it’s gotten prohibitive to the point I now drive 3 hours in a pick up to buy soap. It’s cheaper and faster and I’m positive if everyone just drives around for hours it will certainly reduce emissions as well. And that is what really matters.
My song for your Canadian Post …
Goodbye stranger it’s been nice
Hope you find your paradise
Tried to see your point of view
Hope your dreams will all come true
Goodbye Mary, goodbye Jane
Will we ever meet again
Feel no sorrow, feel no shame
Come tomorrow, feel no pain
BTW … I am loathe to buy any vinyl from Canadian sellers … as I would like to receive my lp by mid 2025 …
No problems here, they can stay out until and beyond Christmas 2025.
No more junk mail. Everything else can be done via email, direct deposit, parcels via Staples and, phone.
Let them eat cake, and have that endless long vacation they’ve always dreamt of.
Excuse me, why should I be FORCED to use alternate technologies, as some of them are are quite unsafe. I rarely use online banking and do not trust most cyber services. I want Canada Post to show up and do their jobs.
Vancouver rarely has seriously bad weather, so WTFlick? At worst, we have -5 F during daytime winter delivery times, which is a great day for the Rest Of Canada.
The most recent memo is that your cell is easily compromised by nefarious actors who do not even anywhere near you.
I’ll be switching over the rest of my bills to email. Been nice not having to empty the junk mail out of my box every couple weeks. Stay on strike for 15 years for all I care. (and yes they’ve pulled the old leave a notice on my door instead of leaving the package more than a few times while I’ve been home waiting for a delivery)
I have to wonder if they have any understanding of just how badly they’re screwing up a nice cushy job with already great pay and benefits? Reality is gonna set in eventually and there will be regret.
am l the only one, who, in my youth, starting some time say late teens, l actually found it invigorating to bundle up and trudge thru snow in -10 C?
physically demanding stuff. no job no money. looking back l called it a ‘free workout’ or it was work hefting 1,000 pounds of the stuff shovelling driveways for pocket change.
or when l bought my first house and 2nd and 3rd and and and made a joke ‘l used to do this as a kid and got paid now l dont even get paid’.
wtf happened to ‘nor sleet nor hale their trusty rounds’ or whatever?
and that goddamnedable demand during one of jean claude parrot’s days ’40 for 30′ demanding 40 hours pay for fcuking 30 hours work.
more like 20 or 25 judging by the carrier next door got home like 1 or 2 in the afternoon.
pampered. f’ing pampered.
well,
let
them
ROT.
come on email, come on courier, come on PRIVATE flyer delivery, come on neighborhood mail boxes drive these spoiled unionboys into the ditch of the workforce.
as an experiment one l mailed myself an empty envelope.
popped it in the mailbox prior to that day’s posted deadline.
10 f’ing days it took.
la dee da canaDUH post.
Pity them. It’s not just climate change that’s making their lives harder. It’s the dragons chasing them while they’re on their routes. It’s the aliens hiding in their carry-bags which make them heavier. And don’t even start about the damned unicorns . . . .
So, you are demanding more support to deal with the stresses of… “climate change,” eh?
Well, I have a suggestion…
Shut the whole thing down. Then you can all stay home and not have to deal with climate change at all!
Seriously? You’re not only shutting down “service” (for lack of a better word), but your stupid insipid little tantrum is now affecting service deliveries into remote areas by private couriers!
Do you know what kind of stress, misery, and heartache you’re causing the rest of the country? And during the holiday season to boot? And you want us to feel sorry for you for having to step out into the rain or snow to do your freakin’ jobs that pay well enough? Where’s that small violin?
The posties have used the Christmas strike numerous times in my almost 70 years of life. It used to be more damaging as no one had direct deposit, email etc. It ensured maximum damage to the citizens with the least effort on the unions part..
My late cousin was a sorter for 35 years. Every Christmas he would receive a Christmas calendar from the union. The general theme of the calendar was “The Struggle Continues”. All of the “Festive” photographs were pictures of various strikes showing employees in the streets with their strike placards. One of the demands in this strike is free sex changes for CUPW members.
The skills required for working for the post office in Canada are:
You must be able to read at the grade five level
You must be a socialist malcontent.
You must accept that your job is pointless and an Orangutan could likely do it better.
Further … you must have low self-esteem and know that your own ignorance and laziness got you this hapless career.
Be grateful because Postal work is only one up from delivering Pizza … You deliver flyers.
I do not use the PO … internet and couriers do the job. End the PO and CBC.
One more thing …. When you go on strike you are unlikely to gain much. The income you lose while on strike may not come back when you finally settle … so it was probably unwise to strike in the first place. It can easily be a net loser.
You are not popular with the public so don’t expect mercy.
I like the headline, digging their own graves.
Do you have any idea of the amount of businesses you’ve hurt!
Let privatize them, if they don’t want to work, fire them and get someone who does.