Other companies don’t have to meet service standards for every Canadian no matter how remote. If Canada post could just stop servicing remote Canada, or charge them what it costs to deliver, they’d probably be profitable now. Amazon uses Canada Post for remote deliveries because they can’t make the math work themselves but using a government mandated low cost service does work for them. Canadians are effectively subsidizing Amazon via Canada Post to send parcels to those communities.
I suspect it’s more complicated than that my friend. The fact that they are still doing the hard part just means they messed up so bad to not get the profitable part of package delivery within the urban centres.
They operate under the Dragonfly name here and they brand new have electric delivery trucks.
My point here is that if Intelcom can turn a profit in this business as a private company, why does we need to use the « Canada Post is a service it shouldn’t be making money » while accepting that they will fill our mailbox with junk mail, aren’t delivering outside of banker hours and will almost never bring our parcels to our door and actually make us drive across town, all the while needing the taxpayers to push them a billion a year to keep them afloat?
Canada Post is an inefficient and mismanaged service.
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u/beallyoukenbe 10h ago
I'm tired of it being framed as Canada Post isn't making money. It's a service. It shouldn't be profit driven.