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Workers at Canada Post Are On Strike. Here’s What Postal Workers Are Fighting For. (pressprogress.ca)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They’ve already been considering ending daily mail delivery, but they require a legislative amendment by the federal government to allow them to make any of the changes needed to keep their operations afloat. Here’s an article from earlier this year

I doubt it’ll be allowed anytime soon with an election on the horizon, but any sitting government that introduces the changes will be receiving a lot of backlash from opposition and rural residents.

The previous government allowed for community mailboxes to be setup to replace door-to-door delivery to make deliveries more efficient, and that got repealed because the poor elderly folks and people in the middle of nowhere would have to get some exercise to collect their mail. We all know what happened after the liberals got voted in, so I doubt much will change besides Canada post requiring subsidies in order to be able to operate by the very legislation that’s making them lose money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yup, all very valid points.

But I think dropping the daily mail to weekly would be much easier pill to swallow, then forcing people to walk down the street to a box in the rain/snow.

Just think thou, with the subsidies, maybe a bi-weekly visit...

Canada Post could have set themselves up as the defacto last mile delivery service.. they could have been towing along all those amazon deliveries while they were at people's houses dropping off mail anyway.

So much efficiency to be had in the system, and they just ignored the writing on the wall for the past 15 years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What percentage of Canadians have to walk to a box down the street right now?

I'm curious, because during these discussions there is all this talk about how having to do that will bring down the whole system, will unfairly affect the elderly or disabled. Yet as someone who grew up in a semi-rural setting, 80% of the people I went to school with had to walk (or stop on the drive home) at a green box for their mail. It's a very city centric idea that mail has to come right to your door. And in cities, your communal boxes could be fairly close to your house anyways.....

I am not and don't usually propose cutting services.

I am not suggesting this as a good option now.

But it confuses the hell out of me that people think this would be the end of civilized society.

And I would like to fantasize on a future where Canada Post took over all Amazon deliveries. Forcing Amazon (and the consumer) to pay fair wages to unionized post officers and not abuse temporary "independent contractors". Huge increase in unionized secure jobs...

I like that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

What percentage of Canadians have to walk to a box down the street right now?

I'm curious, because during these discussions there is all this talk about how having to do that will bring down the whole system, will unfairly affect the elderly or disabled.

Yeah, I'm with you. In fact, in the town I grew up, we needed to drive down to the Postal Office. And people living in apartment buildings need to stop at their mailbox at the bottom floor.

There's no reason for the 'handful' of cases, Canada Post could still have door delivery for people that apply for it. No different than applying for a Handicap sticker for your car.

It all made sense years ago when mail/letters/newspapers were all being delivered to the door.

But collectively we get nothing in snail mail anymore other than adverts. Just about all billing has moved to automatic or online anyway, and like I said for the rare important paper documents, they don't trust that shit in traditional mail anyway.