They can keep their parcel service but they should not be allowed to own Purolator which is in direct competition with other delivery companies.
Privatize Canada Post Parcel Delivery
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They can keep their parcel service but they should not be allowed to own Purolator which is in direct competition with other delivery companies.
I agree a crown corporation should not own a private company it goes against the postal act of Canada
In my experience, our local RPOs are more concerned with security of the mail, because they can be fired for messing up, whereas Canada Post employees seemingly can't be fired for much of anything.
No, Liberalman, you are quite incorrect on all of thesse comments. I'd say you don't know about any of this, and you are just listening to the rumours. Yes, I've heard these rumours.
Thank you TenPenny, you are quite right.
"Canada Post employees seemingly can't be fired for much of anything/"
Since they're union, probably be more difficult to fire them
Probably? So just another guess? Why don't you find out for real. It's not up to a union to hire or fire employees.
Do you not get that unions stand up for their members. More difficult to fire them.
Liberalman, I work at a Canada Post RETAIL OUTLET, and I say you don't know what you're talking about..
I will say again, Canada Post sets the prices, not the business owners.
"If you don't like Canada Post, you are more than welcome to go to UPS or FedEx.
Actually, maybe we would prefer if you did go somewhere else.."
Yup, defiantly go private, just look how well the U.S. postal service is doing since doing that.
Some US associates are talking about "un-privatizing" the US postal system.
The irony is, several of them are hard-core Bakersfield Republicans.
They use Fedex for most things special, but there's still a tonne of day-to-day jazz people need the Postal Service for, and it just hasn't been working.
From what I read, the US Postal service is an "independent establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United States" and has been like that since 1971. So what is this talk of un-privatizing the postal system?
If memory serves, Greyhound is subsidized by taxpayers to cover some of the not-so-busy-routes. The problem with privatization is that nobody wants to deliver mail to Champion Alberta or Minto New Brunswick. Unfortunately, Canada is a large country with a low population density and the demand for postal service is being eroded away with newer technology. I doubt any decent company would be interested in buying Canada Post.
Don't know about the big cities but in most places you have to pay extra to have it delivered to the door. In our area, there is no door to door with Greyhound. There is with Purolator.
I did some investigative research and got in contact with the American postal union and I asked the question if the United States Postal Services or USPS, has gone private or is in a process of going private and they would not answer the question just kept passing me to other departments then I contacted the USPS and they did the same thing so as a last resort I contacted the Democrats in Washington D.C and they told me that the USPS is still under the government.
Because of the secrecy of the American postal union and the USPS I have to assume that President Obama is on the verge of selling off government services to reduce the size of the American government to save money.
Okay, I just did some quick reading...
It used to be a Department (what Canucks call a Ministry) until '71when Nixon "privatized" it as much as he could into what Canucks would call a "Crown Corporation".
Nixon couldn't go any further because the existence of the postal service as a public service is in the US Constitution.