Canadian Postal Strike agree or not?

Do YOU think it was a good time for Canadian Postal to go on strike

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I’m not sure that it matters as much these days as it would have 20 years ago. 🤔

Striking in the days and weeks heading up to the holidays will certainly provide some visibility.

I’m not sure exactly what their demands are but I thought I saw they wanted an 11.5% increase in wages over the next four years which sounds reasonable to me.

In any case, I hope that it is resolved soon.

There are usually no winners in a labor strike.
 

For those that don't know...Canada Post is a Crown corporation, that is supposed to be a profit making national operation. In the second largest country in the entire world, delivering the mail is a huge task, and many of our northern isolated communities DEPEND on Canada Post to bring in important shipments of food and other essentials.

With that fact in mind, the Federal Government will most probably use the powers in law, to force both sides to go into forced arbitration talks within as few as 3 days from now. That means that the union workers AND their union leaders would all face HUGE daily fines, if they do not go back to work. Forced arbitration was recently used in Canada, to re-open the shipping ports of Vancouver, British Columbia, and Montreal in Quebec. Those are the 2 largest shipping ports in the country. Both the shipping ports and Canada Post are crucial to the Canadian economy, and shutting down either one is a horrible outcome for our country.

IN 2024, Canada Post is directly competing with home parcel delivery giants like Amazon in the cities. Where Canada Post loses money is in delivering individual items to the Territories in the Arctic, which Amazon and the other courier companies won't do. Imagine flying in a load of Canada Post letters, parcels and fresh food, three thousand kilometers to the capital city of the Arctic ? That is what drags Canada Post's profits down. They are the only company that is required to service those isolated parts of our country.

JIM.
 
Aunt Bea said:
I’m not sure exactly what their demands are but I thought I saw they wanted an 11.5% increase in wages over the next four years which sounds reasonable to me.

In any case, I hope that it is resolved soon.

There are usually no winners in a labor strike.
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The Union is asking 22% over 5 years. The employer is offering 11.5%. I don‘t follow any details.
 
A long time ago, when I was a licensed Private Investigator here in Ontario, the company that I was working for was hired by Canada Post to provide investigators during a national postal strike. We were assigned to monitor the 2 largest Canada Post mail processing plants in the greater Toronto area. Each of these plants employed over 3,000 people. Our job was to video the picket lines, and to record any incidents of trouble.

We were given a book of photos of "known union trouble makers " who it turned out had been hired by Canada Post under an agreement with the Federal Department of Prisons. Yes, Canada Post was hiring excons to work in the mail sorting plants. Needless to say, we were careful when we were at the picket lines. A majority of the Toronto area postal union board were ex Federal prisoners, at that time. This was in the 1990's. JIM.
 
jimintoronto said:
Imagine flying in a load of Canada Post letters, parcels and fresh food, three thousand kilometers to the capital city of the Arctic ? That is what drags Canada Post's profits down. They are the only company that is required to service those isolated parts of our country.
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Good point.

Maybe it should be like FEMA here. They bail out the hurricane and earthquake states but seldom spend a nickel up here, and we all get to pay high taxes per capita to fund them.

So I suppose your postal rates need to climb along with increased subsidies via income and/or a national property tax.
 
PeppermintPatty said:
That’s an idea. It costs about $25 to $30 dollars to send a small tin of cookies. Maybe purolater might be better.
Thanks Jim
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Call their 1-800 service number, give your location, and find out if they can send a driver to pick up at your home, then ask for an estimate for shipping your goods to the destination locations. OR ask where they have a service office in your part of the Province, to go to and do a drop off there. Fed Ex also does this type of service, but I am not sure how many locations they have in your part of our country ?

A further point about the prices for courier services...Be sure to say that you want the slowest GROUND service rate they have. In the courier business SPEED equals EXPENSIVE. Ground costs LESS then air shipping does. Sending some thing on a 5 day delivery rate, costs less than a 2 day rate does. JIMB.
 
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dilettante said:
Good point.

Maybe it should be like FEMA here. They bail out the hurricane and earthquake states but seldom spend a nickel up here, and we all get to pay high taxes per capita to fund them.

So I suppose your postal rates need to climb along with increased subsidies via income and/or a national property tax.
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I think your Governor has to declare the area a state of emergency before FEMA will set up shop in that area.
 
This is NO news. The Canadian post office people always strike at Christmas time. Me, I don't care 1 little Canadian nickel. Why! My pension is deposited to a bank and my bills are paid automatic.

All I ever get in my mailbox every week is those darn burger adds, pizza adds and other "garbage." For me, the postal service is pretty well out-dated.
 
Packerjohn said:
This is NO news. The Canadian post office people always strike at Christmas time. Me, I don't care 1 little Canadian nickel. Why! My pension is deposited to a bank and my bills are paid automatic.

All I ever get in my mailbox every week is those darn burger adds, pizza adds and other "garbage." For me, the postal service is pretty well out-dated.
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I will point out to you that the LAST Canada Post strike was in 2018, six years ago. Feel free to not use Canada Post.
 
That is not good and can have far reaching effects! I know many people here who don't have internet and still mail bills and cards...
 
Anyone notice that Canada post always strikes before Xmas. So tired of it. From what I read, its mostly about job security, layoffs planned etc. I mean they get great salary, benefits, pensions, working conditions. But I think they are trying to prevent layoffs and eventually being replaced. I get that, but maybe do a better job and you will be safe!

CP are always late. When we send a package to Canada from Europe it is crazy how fast it gets there compared to its delivery. We sent a package in Oct from the local postal outlet here. It went to the airport that night, and left for Can at 2 am. Got to Mississauga that night/morning, but took 12 days to deliver to Edmonton.

We got packages sent from the other way, and it was stupid. Sent from Winnipeg to us here in Eu. Sent on a Monday, left Tues from WPG to Mississauga. Got to Miss who knows when but was accepted in Miss on Thursday of that week. Shipped to EU on Sat, arrived in our country on Sunday night at 1145 pm. Was delivered Tuesday morning.

So in Can Post, it takes a week to get it to our side of the world, whereas from here it takes a day. Then it takes 12 days to deliver in Canada from the dist center, but here it takes 1.5 days. then dont get me started on the cost. Insane how expensive Can Post is. The same weight and sixe from here cost approx 30-50 dollars compared to 135 in Canada.
 
I am with @Aunt Bea ....strikes usually happen at a time when the effect would be most felt by the public. The time of year where people are beginning to think of mailing out packages, cards and stuff. As well as placing online orders that are sent through the Postal Service. I mean, I know many companies like Amazon have their own delivery services, but the mail is still used
 
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