Proposed Canada Post price hike could make sending mail more expensive
Proposed Canada Post price hike could make sending mail more expensive
Sending a letter could cost a little more next year as Canada Post has proposed a price hike on stamps. In a news release, the Crown corporation st...
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"Every year, there are fewer letters to deliver to more addresses, adding significant cost pressures to the Corporation on top of continued inflationary pressures," stated Canada Post.
I wonder how long before it becomes a parcel only service.
Maybe it's just me, but I can't see that as a valid justification for raising prices. True, letter deliveries are down. But it's not like Canada Post is lacking business through parcel delivery. Why can't they combine the 2? Or have one subsidize the other.
Why does someone who doesn't have access to my apartment building mailbox come drop amazon packages in the lobby, instead of a canada post worker who can leave it in a drop box in the mail room and put the key in my mailbox?
Problem is that the prices were originally arranged to that first-class lettermail subsidized the rest of the services. Then the amount of lettermail tanked, and the pricing structure never quite straightened itself out afterwards. Someone has to sit down and rethink it from scratch, and so far no one's been willing to do that.
We still need the postal service, though—it serves smaller and remote communities that the couriers would prefer not to deal with.
- conservatives hate things the poors can get value from
- they decided canada post was a business that had to turn a profit, like the Americans did
- now the books have to balance, because that's how governments fund things with no taxes is by increased user fees so they're more dramatically impacted by the ebb and flow of spending and thus die.
- then the cons like PP get to laugh into their quiches at the struggles of the poors
The main users of Canada Post are businesses anyway: junk mail. I get maybe one actual letter from a non-business per year. I doubt my experience is out of the ordinary. Subsidizing Canada Post out of tax revenue would just be subsidizing those businesses that use it to flood our boxes with fliers and coupons.
If we’re going to subsidize it then we should probably move to weekly delivery, rather than daily, and stop delivery of junk mail altogether. But that would cost a lot of postal worker jobs, which seems to be the main purpose of keeping Canada Post in existence.
they HAD a parcel-only service. They separated it. Hello PUROLATOR, the least effective courier service on the planet. They can't find my 31-story building while they're standing 100ft from it. Like, LOOK UP, IDIOT. And so I have to go to the airport almost, to get my package, if they haven't just thrown it into the ditch and cursed at it in French or something. "Alors, avez ca trou-d'eau la-bas, putain!" or so.