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Originally Posted by kunkstyle
Check your stats, then notice the trend. Canada Post recorded profits for 16 consecutive years until 2011. It has reported losses for nine consecutive quarters since then. So obviously something needs to change to make it profitable again. Regular mail (asides from parcel) in in serious decline. I'd say that that is the exactly the kind of streamlining we need. Or they could wait a decade and go belly-up, or rely on government subsidization.
It's not job losses per-se, it's not re-filling spots after natural attrition. Canada post suffers from the same ability to get with the times as most other unionized environments. They're handcuffed into being slow to adapt which drives them to looking to other solutions, which is what you're seeing here. IMO if it wasn't unionized they would have these superboxes installed already and you'd be seeing 8,000 layoffs right after Christmas.
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I believe 2011 is the year of the last strike by Canada Post employees.
It is not a coincidence that Canada Post started to lose money that same year. People were so fed up that they converted as much of their standard mail delivery to digital mail delivery as possible, and that involved hundreds of thousands of Canadians if not millions. ING in Alberta reported that they had something like 75,000 customers sign up for digital delivery of their bank statements.
And wasn't a large part of that last strike about streamlining which the employees were resisting? Yes, I know, some was about the new structure of their past postal routes but I think Canada Post wanted to buy a lot of newer and more modern sorting equipment too.