If anyone has any educated guesses on what they think is going to happen with Canada Post come May 22, when this “break in strike” ends, please share them, and any other information you might have come across regarding it.
I have been… avoiding anything that might need to be sent or received by Canada Post since May, because I don’t want it to sit in a Canada Post warehouse for months, while both sides fight over whatever. Or indefinitely, never to be delivered, after they decide there will no longer be a Canada Post (national mail) now.
The reoccurring thought I’ve had (for a decade) in regards to Canada Post is that they are really trying to put themselves out of business.
If you rely on them for delivering paper copy of transactions etc. …you are just asking to be kicked.
Oh shit. What do you mean tag teaming with DHL, exactly?
Yea. I don’t see how they can get the things they want. Isn’t Canada Post a failure and partly becoming obsolete - at least in the way they operate or the main services they offer. I don’t think it should disappear, obviously. But it doesn’t sound like it can survive from the odd thing I hear about the financial side of it. I know very little about all this.
Why doesn’t the USA have this issue, with the USPS? What is different there, mainly?
How can a country (CAN) have such poor ability to (continue to) provide basic postal service?
We have this problem in the US… every year, the post office needs government money… it was supposed to be self-sufficient then they just kept changing it status and funding every few years till we got to where we are now. Our government in office currently is definitely reviewing how the post office will be moving forward every year. Some think it’s days are numbered others expect the government will keep it around and just keep downsizing slowly. Cheers @Nitt
Usa has postal service mentioned in the constitution. It is a service we pay for with taxes as I rudimentarily understood. But with our hobby of seed trading and also edible gardening seeds this service seems very valuable. It compliments OG.com. I hope both our contries keep this going. Locally I do not have anything to replace such a vast outreach network. Farmers markets here do not have much depth of products.
The cost to operate is what it is, but the costs of it vs private companies are not in question
I think of it like the library, sure, it costs $$$, but I am all about people being able to have access
You are correct though for sure, its mismanaged to death.
In 2006 the PAEA Law was passed that made the USPS fund their retirement pool 75 years into the future.
The USPS 2024 report states
“Over 80% of our current year net loss is attributed to factors that are outside of management’s control, specifically, the amortization of unfunded retiree pension liabilities and non-cash workers’ compensation adjustments.”
Sorry to go politics, but it’s unsustainable in large part because of the requirement that they fund their pension 75 years in to the future, which was foisted on them by partisan politicians. Many of those same politicians have an interest in privatizing the postal service, and making it unsustainable furthers that goal.
It’s true they aren’t as profitable as they once were, because the volume of first class mail has gone down (e-billing). It’s not entirely true to say they’re funded by taxpayers or funded by the government. Yes they’ve received subsidies and other benefits, but the postal service is largely funded by the sale of stamps and other services.
Rural communities would be screwed without the postal service.
Overpaid grocery store flyer delivery service for the most part. Even when I ask them to stop they keep packing my mail box with flyers that I don’t want and have asked them not to send.
