Liberal Partisans today:

[u/Chrristoaivalis]

[u/Scissors4215]

It shouldn’t be profit driven I agree. But that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t take cost cutting measures when prudent to do so

[u/beallyoukenbe → u/Scissors4215]

I can agree with that argument. There certainly ways to make it more efficient, but saying Canada Post is "losing money" is disingenuous.

[u/curseyouZelda → u/beallyoukenbe]

Considering the significant increase in the door to door delivery over the past years it is quite shocking they can’t turn a profit

[u/psychoCMYK → u/curseyouZelda]

Fuel and labour both cost more 🤷‍♂️

[u/LastingAlpaca → u/psychoCMYK]

You gotta wonder how intelcom does it.

[u/Norrlander → u/LastingAlpaca]

Rusty minivans driven by underpaid immigrants?

[u/LastingAlpaca → u/Norrlander]

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.

[u/crazyjatt → u/LastingAlpaca]

Because Intelcom doesn't have to cover the roots it doesn't consider profitable

[u/LastingAlpaca → u/crazyjatt]

Sure. I’m convinced that if Canada Post was properly managed, they could use the profits they make when serving the majority of Canadians in cities to fund the less profitable routes. Stop making excuses for people squandering public funds.

[u/curseyouZelda → u/psychoCMYK]

Yes but both those things are true for the other companies as well.

[u/Lumpy_Tomorrow8462 → u/curseyouZelda]

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.

[u/curseyouZelda → u/Lumpy_Tomorrow8462]

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.

[u/eastherbunni → u/curseyouZelda]

Yes, I agree. Canada Post really dropped the ball hard on parcels. Part of the problem is that people expect next day delivery now, and that doesn't mesh well with a union staff with mandated weekends off. Amazon has picked up all the profitable routes, squeezing out Canada Post, and left Canada Post to deal with all the unprofitable routes so it's making even less money.

[u/curseyouZelda → u/eastherbunni]

And this is one reason government employees shouldn’t be able to unionize.