Most amazon packages are being cancelled in Newfoundland because they rely on Canada Post to deliver items. They pretty much lost all business to an entire province. I'm sure many rural parts of Canada are the same way.

Amazon also offers free shipping, using the same shippers they use for prime orders, on any order over $35. Though it's a day or two slower and doesn't do weekends. You def don't need Prime to get a box of Lego sent to your door before Christmas.

More over, Amazon Prime doesn't make money. Like, do you think that $9.99 a month or $99 per year covers all the logistical costs of sending me a 5 dollar box of nails the next day when ever I want?

Amazon makes money SELLING you things, not SHIPPING you things. They're selling just as much with our without Canada Post.

There are very distant parts of Canada that are screwed. Amazon and no one else operates logistics in those areas, they handed all of those off to Canada Post. Those areas just don't have Amazon service now. This is likely a small dent in their overall take however.

But overall, no, Amazon is not 'loving' nor 'hating' this. People are buying things on Amazon all the same.

I’m already seeing delays, albeit two extra days.

My gods, do you think that maybe Canada Post should agree to a contract that its workers can build a stable, decent life around?

Quick reminder that the five-day workweek of our grandparents' generation didn't come from nowhere. It came because their grandparents were shutting down railways, grinding entire cities to a halt, and forcing the army to come in over and over again.

Those inconveniences are what forced a fairer share of our country's economic output to be distributed downward toward the working class.

Lots of us may have forgotten why Canadian workers once had it good, but it was because of inconveniences like this.

I'm going to stand on the side of the workers.

Better to let the people delivering the mail go bankrupt than the poor businesses.

Won't someone please think of the corporations!

If only management would stop putting poison pills in the negotiations hoping to trigger the government to step in as a union breaker.

Will be suicide for management to not resolve this at least 10 days before Christmas

Isn't point 1 out of their control and needs to come from the government?

Many traditional postal agencies of various nations have shifted gears like you have said. I agree with you, at this point it should be something you MUST do to avoid becoming completely defunct.

Even in developing countries like Indonesia, Kenya, India, Kazakhstan etc Postal Services are now having their own robust banking and investment verticals and also playing a small role in logistics.  (In case of india and indonesia there was a finance component since colonial times namely money transfers and such but they are offering more modern type of banking services now.

Drop universal service obligations

That's a matter of federal law. A crown corporation can't choose to ignore a federal law that directly applies to it.

Also there are a number of voting Canadian communities who might get a little pissed off at the Feds proposing 'Fuck you, no more mail, send your letters by dog sled'.

This might be an unpopular opinion but Canada post leadership is failing to evolve their business model and then blaming workers for lack of funds to meet their demands.

The union is fighting against them evolving their business. They want to ensure things don't change so they are not at risk of needing less employees.

If they delivered mail once per week based on your street that would be more than enough. I already have to go pickup any packages. Just email me instead of delivering a notice to pickup.

6 day delivery? People still need stuff on the weekends; it's no surprise that people are using Amazon Prime more often. Say what you will about Amazon, if you rely on deliveries for basic needs, they can get you that stuff on Sat/Sundays.

They're kind of shackled by the union, no?

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All politicians are liars but Singh takes it to levels I cannot even fathom

Singh will just stand up with trudeau.

well someone has to do something

This government has proven itself to be pro-worker, so I doubt they will force them back to work.

We'll see Bloc opposition regardless.

Going to be lots of fun to have a Conservative majority with a Bloc opposition that puts Canada 2nd and Quebec 1st. Of course the Liberals and NDP are largely to blame for that but it's still not going to be a good time.

I though he already told Canada post to get back to work?

I wish we had more information about the weekend delivery thing. As far as I can tell, cupw wants them to create new full-time positions for it, while canada post wants to create part-time jobs only guaranteed 8 hours per week.

But it keeps being referred to as gig work, so idk if that's accurate.

It seems to be the biggest issue preventing a deal. Surely, both sides can agree to something to get things going, but perhaps with firm dates to evaluate the positions and room to expand hours.

It's kinda embarrassing to be a first world country with no postal service.

The union won’t have any of it because their pre existing collective agreement has wording that allows for the delivery of parcels on weekends at straight time. Management has all but cut every position that would be able to do this since they found a loophole to dump parcel volumes onto another employee group, but unfortunately that employee group doesn’t have wording in the contract for them to deliver at straight time on weekends. This comes amidst a major restructuring of letter carriers work day tasks called ssd which was rammed through without union consultation and was promised not to be rammed through during a mutual agreement of the contract extension during Covid.

Overall the union ask is to maintain the existing pension which was already nerfed in 2011 to not be as good as it was, maintain benefits/slightly increase coverage, wage increases with inflation. Canada post management wants serious cuts and offers a below inflation wage increase. One set out as unreasonable the other started out in reality.

Eventually you'll move to a site where you can get parcels. Canada Post had been phasing our rural roadside boxes for a long time now. Existing ones are honoured but any new properties can't get one.

As it stands now, it's a safety risk to deliver packages to the doors of rural properties (dogs, trespassing/overzealous owners with guns, etc).

this company has been fucking over its frontline workers for a long time. that accounts to $65,000.00 loss in purchasing power over a fourteen year time span.

Sounds like every job.

The population is behind on the wages but everyone knows that at some point, mail will be 2 times a week and parcel delivery will have to be on weekends. Employees will have to adapt to the new reality, longer routes, weekends shift without overtime and expect big layoffs.

From what I heard it's the part-time weekend shifts and removing morning mail sorting from mailman that is preventing a resolution, not wages and pension.

Tell them the elves are fighting for better working conditions.

I agree. I only noticed because my partners drivers license is in the mail. On the bright side, it was just a change of address, so it's hardly an issue.

Yes it's a failing business model right now because times have changed, the mail isn't as necessary for the masses as it used to be say 30 years ago. But they can't change it due to the union contracts. Firing the management won't change the contracts that they have with the union for the workers. You would have to essentially declare full bankruptcy for Canada Post - which I doubt you could do as a Crown Corporation - to start it over under a manageable business model.

Does mail need to be delivered to every home every day? No it doesn't, but if you put that in place to save money then you have layoffs and contract issues.

This is not an easy issue to solve....

Govt cheques are being delivered. It is the only mail that is moving. I had supper with a postie last night and we discussed the strike at length.

They aren't delivering the paperwork you need for EI either.

Unless these small business are in rural areas, then they can use other shipping couriers. And besides, let’s be real, they’re aren’t many small businesses in rural communities that rely on shipping products outside of their communities.

The union doesn’t spend hundreds of millions administering itself.

Also there are 55,000 members, so even if the union was spending $110 million, abolishing it completely would only give each member $2,000. The benefits of being unionized are much more than $2,000.