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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
no, as that's not what the article stated.
the statement in the article said the percentage of packages Canada Post delivers has gone from 62% to 30%, not that the number they delivered has decreased.
I can believe that.
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The point I’m making is that it is a fairly irrelevant stat as it relates to the viability of Canada Post as a whole. Especially without providing any context surrounding the boom in online delivery over that period and how Amazon and their numerous 3rd party affiliates took a big chunk out of every major delivery company’s market share. Yet it continually gets pointed to as if it’s an argument for why the business is in the shape it is in.
It’d be like owning the only restaurant in town that is booked solid every night and having a competitor open up next door where those who couldn’t get a reservation at the other place would go to. The first restaurant’s share of the meals served in town would go down but since it remains booked solid every night and selling the same number of meals overall the business didn’t suffer as a result. So it’d be silly for the business to try and present itself as being hurt by the drop in market share.