Subj : canada post..
To   : AUGUST ABOLINS
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Tue Sep 30 2025 08:56:02

AA>> "The corporation can permanently stop door-to-door home
AA>> deliveries, shifting
  >> addresses to community mailboxes over several years.

RM> They did that to me close to 20 years ago, and a lot of
RM> other people obviously. Some of them have to drive 10
RM> miles to get their mail.

AA>It's been 20 yrs since the introduction of those community
  >"boxes"?  I didn't think it was that long ago.

Out in the boonies they got sick of going to individual mail
boxes on roads with very few properties, especially in areas
where a lot of places are seasonal and they may have to drive
miles to drop mail for 1 or 2 people.

RM> In recent years I've been thinking Canada Post should
RM> concentrate more on having a reliable courier service at
RM> reasonable prices and maybe cut back on regular mail
RM> deliveries to 3 days a week or something.

AA>But if they cut back the days for regular mail, what will those
  >employess do on the other 2 work days in the week?

Either give the carriers 2 routes and go to a 4 day work week and
(i.e..) do one route Monday and Wednesday and the other route
Tuesday and Thursday..  Or deliver to one route 3 days one week
and 2 days the next week switching back and forth.

That would cut the delivery task force in half.
You hate to see people lose their jobs but the corporation has
to have been really working at it to get into this bad a shape..

RM> But of course the Canada Post union (CUPW) not only
RM> doesn't want to see any layoffs, they actually want them
RM> to hire More people in a business losing around $3 Million
RM> a day...

That $3 Million a day was over several years I now believe.
They've been saying for this year they are losing $10 million
a day.

AA>The union seems to think they can tell the CPC how to "run a
  >business".  I heard the clip by the union leader that "CPC is
  >making up the losses" or that the CPC has caused them
  >artificially to somehow justify their bargaining stance.

I'd say to the start of that, typical union thinking..
But probably the situation is being somewhat exaggerated by
the CPC as well, also typical.

But, as I mentioned a while back, My first long term part time
job (while in school) was with a company with a powerful union
and at one point I was threatened by the union for 'working too
hard', something that got me more hours and higher pay than the
union contract specified.

AA>From my rural office, I hear that the workers and delivery
  >drivers are happy with the benifits and wages - and that they
  >would not necessarily care to stike. But the biggest sway in
  >voting is by the workers in the cities.

Yes, I'm not certain what the situation is here for the drivers.
If it hasn't changed in recent years I don't believe they are
actually employed by CPC, they are independent contractors who
bid for the delivery service each year.

I wouldn't be surprised if that practice may have been changed
by the union a while back to get more workers covered by the
union (paying dues)..

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