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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Canada Post is clinging to an obsolete business model.


When the Liberals restored home delivery over centralized group mailboxes it was a dumb move. It could have allowed Canada Post to reduce employee count, and probably reduce work place injuries and hours worked for their carriers.


In terms of the sorting plants, they really should be looking at the automation models with Private Sector Courier companies in their sorting systems, again it would have reduced head count and probably reduced injuries, especially by workers doing repetitive tasks or even heavy lifting.


As it stands this rotating strike is a gong show on both sides, I will never say that Canada Post negotiates fairly, this happens every time it seems and they pray for back to work legislation to be enacted, but at the same time, the Union is guilty of holding mail delivery and package delivery hostage.


I think that this situation happening right now is going to really hurt Canada Post. Most of the companies that are desperate right now to get packages delivered are looking at private options, and you can bet that those private companies are going to aggressively pursue that business, and once those companies leave Canada Posts services, they won't be coming back.


I rarely get any legitimate mail any more, I'm mostly electronic when it comes to the government or for things like Bills, for the most part, I get a bunch of flyers (The most inefficient marketing concept now) and those go straight to my recycling bin. I get electronic notifications from the shops that I go to like Safeways or Best Buy etc.


I just think that at some point, you could either make Canada Post find a niche in electronic distribution of essential mail, or you sell it off and privatize mail delivery since either way there's a chance for work disruption, but the costs might be more inline privately.


Canada Post is probably going to die because its a dinosaur.

Wasn't this one of the contentious issues either the last strike or the one before?

Canada Post proposed this and the union objected.