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[Mike K.]

If you don’t need it, why check it?

Cancel all mail services with your bank, service providers and subscriptions. And have everything you want to send couriered. You have that option today.

[Victoria Watcher]

Canada Post returns to full service for domestic parcels; letters still delayed

 

https://www.timescol...elayed-10040709

 

 

[Mike K.]

I haven't received any mail of substance yet at our household. A few paid advertisements have arrived, though.

 

Still no bank docs, no Christmas cards, no utilities statements, not mortgage docs, no business license letter, no nothing.

[lanforod]

I've gotten a bunch of stuff, utility bill (Saanich), bank letters, some Christmas cards, and various junk as usual. It was a nice to have less recycling for a month!

[Matt R.]

I feel like we’re all caught up. Some Xmas stuff came, few utilities, dog license, 48 ULine catalogues, etc.

[Victoria Watcher]

Will our new US Postal Service be better? Saturday deliveries, no?

It’ll be good to have Target Stores again. Trader Joes.

[Mike K.]

Could all of my mail have been mis delivered?

[Blair M.]

Will our new US Postal Service be better? Saturday deliveries, no?
It’ll be good to have Target Stores again. Trader Joes.

I'm voting to "Join the U.S.A." so we get those In'N'Out burger joints in town.

[lanforod]

We have better burger joints already. Pass.

[LJ]

We have better burger joints already. Pass.

Which ones and at what price point?

[phx]

I also will pass on the In’N’Out burger.

They can keep Carl’s Jr. too.

[Victoria Watcher]

The Government of Canada has announced plans to provide Canada Post with up to $1.034 billion in repayable funding by the 2025-26 fiscal year, offering a financial lifeline to the struggling Crown corporation as it grapples with mounting losses and operational challenges.

The funding, made under the Canada Post Corporation Act, is intended to ensure the postal service maintains its solvency and continues operations while a long-term plan is developed to address its structural issues.

According to the government, the measure is a temporary solution and does not resolve the broader problems that have led to Canada Post’s significant financial difficulties.

“This approach will maintain continuity of Canada Post's operations but will not solve the Corporation's structural issues,” the government stated.

“Significant change is urgently needed to modernize the operating model and preserve the national postal service.”

Canada Post has faced annual losses since 2018, driven by shifts in the postal and parcel delivery sectors, high labor costs, and regulatory constraints that hinder its ability to adapt and compete.

 

https://www.westerns...nsolvency/61532

[Victoria Watcher]

[Victoria Watcher]

At federal inquiry, Canada Post blames workers leaving early and union points to mismanagement

 

Hearings began Monday at commission looking at state of the Crown corporation

 

Canada Post vice-president Alexandre Brisson explained that the collective agreement prevents the corporation from reassigning letter carriers who finish their mail runs before their eight-hour shift is over. 

The inquiry's commissioner, former University of Ottawa law professor William Kaplan, called that lack of flexibility "puzzling."

"How is it not a problem when somebody is paid for eight hours of work, and there's more work that could be done, and the corporation could avoid paying overtime to someone else by having that person work for the eight hours for which they are paid?" Kaplan asked the union.

The union explained that in 2003, Canada Post removed the requirement for letter carriers to take their lunch at the office in a bid to reduce overtime. It instead allowed carriers to work through their lunch and leave early.

CUPW grievance officer Jim Gallant said workers under the current model are incentivized to work faster.

"When people are scheduled for eight hours, they work eight hours. And when you give them a carrot to say you can go home early, people run," Gallant said, adding that changing this rule wouldn't necessarily make workers more flexible.

 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...begin-1.7443077

 

That's some serious disfunction.

[Blair M.]

The entire concept of getting paid for 8 hours work, but going home when you finish your delivery route obviously inspires Posties to hurry up, walk through peoples gardens, and otherwise blitz their route so they can go home a couple (or a few) hours early.

The concept very likely also leaves a bad taste in the mouthes of the majority of Canadians who are required to put in a full 8 hours work for their 8 hours of pay.

 

But management did sign the collective agreement that allows for posties to book off early, and not to be assigned additional work to make up the remainder of the 8 hours, so I'm not sure how it suddenly becomes an issue that management decides it can publicly complain about?

If Canada Post management doesn't want to pay wages for hours not worked, then why have they signed an agreement that allows for such behaviour?

 

Any time parties are legally obliged to collectively bargain, and that bargaining then results in two signatures being placed on a contract - both parties instantly (IMO) lose the right to publicly complain about the contents of that collective agreement.

 

Anyway, what this all seems to demonstrate is that both Canada Post management, and the union representing Canada Post workers are both dysfunctional. More negative weight has to be put on Canada Post management for allowing the dysfunction to progress over time to where it is today, demonstrated further by signing a contract allowing posties to go home early, and then complaining in the press about how posties go home early.

[Mike K.]

It could be that there is less mail being delivered today than when the agreement was signed, maybe?

[Lupurus2901]

I believe the routes are regularly re-benchmarked to determine how many hours it should take some n average. I'm not sure how often or what that process looks like though.

Edited by Lupurus2901, 28 January 2025 - 07:22 AM.

[Fox]

For a while our mail carrier would run as fast as she could through the neighborhood.  She was nearly hit by traffic on more than one occasion, so its obvious there is an incentive to finish early.  She also complained that I had set my parcel delivery preferences to "leave at garage" instead of the front door, as it meant she had to walk from the front door for letters and the garage for parcels, an additional 20 feet.  She said that she would stop delivering unless I removed the garage preference.

 

A year later she was replaced by a very nice carrier, who would actually ring the doorbell and hand you the parcels, while wishing you a nice day.  Obviously, not all carriers are the same.

Edited by Fox, 28 January 2025 - 11:39 AM.

[Mike K.]

^wild.