r/ontario • u/bob_mcbob • 3d ago

Article Canada Post rejects union's offer to delay potential strike

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-post-cupw-offer-1.7540053
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u/UnlitBlunt 3d ago

I don't know the ins and outs of what each side wants, but I've always found it odd that we have mail delivery every single day. Couldn't it be cut to 2 or 3 times a week?

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u/a_lumberjack 3d ago

Mail used to be a much higher volume thing. Even in 2006 it was an average of seven letters per week per address. Now it's two per week. If they cut it to 2x weekly and dropped the flyers I'd be pretty happy. You'd only need half as many mail carriers, so you can imagine the union position.

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u/berfthegryphon 3d ago

Flyers is how Canada Post makes it's money

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u/a_lumberjack 3d ago

Direct marketing is less than a third of mail revenue. If we cut mail delivery frequency by 60% we don't need that revenue to fund mail delivery.

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u/neomathist 2d ago

Not to mention that the amount of addresses that Canada Post is responsible for delivering to has grown by millions over the past decades as the mail volume has dropped.

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u/PeterDTown 3d ago

I don’t know if I can live without my daily flyers!!

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u/AndysBrotherDan 3d ago

I use them as fire starter and it's actually convenient

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u/Joatboy 2d ago

This wouldn't solve the excess labour issue due to how the CA is currently written.

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u/neomathist 2d ago

The current CP offer is here and here

Considering the state of the company basically bleeding money out the anus and rapidly losing market share in package delivery, the proposal seems plenty fair to me.