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cottagewoman · ‎09-25-2025

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/livestory/canada-post-free-to-end-home-delivery-as-part-of-plan-to-...

This could portend a CUPW strike

john_koenig99 · ‎09-25-2025

@cottagewoman wrote:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/livestory/canada-post-free-to-end-home-delivery-as-part-of-plan-to-...

This could portend a CUPW strike

So be it. Might as well get it over with.

Hopefully followed by swift legislation, ordering them back to work. If they don't comply, terminate. Simple.

reallynicestamps · ‎09-25-2025

I'd prefer extending delivery to three times a week, including Saturdays for residential addresses and five days a week for businesses.

No change for businesses, and the "extra" day would feel good to the rest.

But no one listens to me.

easoss · ‎09-25-2025

Living in the city, this announcement isn't much of anything. However it will have more large repercussions for people in rural areas.

marnotom! · ‎09-25-2025

@reallynicestamps wrote:

I'd prefer extending delivery to three times a week, including Saturdays for residential addresses and five days a week for businesses.

No change for businesses, and the "extra" day would feel good to the rest.
But no one listens to me.

Exactly. There are days where I receive no mail or just a single piece, and that piece is usually addressed admail. Three days a week wouldn't make much difference to me.

Saturday could be an additional day for parcel or Xpresspost delivery. I'm not too fussed about not receiving regular letters on the weekend.

I live in a small town, but it's big enough to have streets with sidewalks and traffic lights. I don't know where they'd be able to put community mailboxes in my neighbourhood.

dinomitesales · ‎09-25-2025

Reports are that CUPW Atlantic has already walked out on strike following the Minister's address.

mrdutch1001 · ‎09-25-2025

"There are days where I receive no mail or just a single piece, and that piece is usually addressed admail."

Exactly! likewise here, so for me delivery twice per week would be sufficient(beginning of the week and end of the week would be ideal for me).... But, even after having spent half my life living in rural areas, I do feel that mail 3 times per week would be quite sufficient there too.

Businesses need to be dealt with differently than residential and/or individuals. But these are only my opinions, so whatever Canada Post decides, we all will have to accept,adapt to, adjust to and carry on!

sapphyres-designer-jewellery · ‎09-25-2025

@mrdutch1001 wrote:
"There are days where I receive no mail or just a single piece, and that piece is usually addressed admail."
Exactly! likewise here, so for me delivery twice per week would be sufficient(beginning of the week and end of the week would be ideal for me).... But, even after having spent half my life living in rural areas, I do feel that mail 3 times per week would be quite sufficient there too.
Businesses need to be dealt with differently than residential and/or individuals. But these are only my opinions, so whatever Canada Post decides, we all will have to accept,adapt to, adjust to and carry on!

Where I work, we need mail every day. To start with, there's timelines for processing documents, and secondly I spend my entire day opening, scanning and uploading mail. It's a job for one person to do every single day... that's how much mail we get.

C.

recped · ‎09-25-2025

Where I work, we need mail every day.

I don't think anyone has ever recommended changing the current delivery schedule for business /commercial addresses.

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john_koenig99 · ‎09-25-2025

@dinomitesales wrote:
Reports are that CUPW Atlantic has already walked out on strike following the Minister's address.

Source? Couldn't find anything online.

sapphyres-designer-jewellery · ‎09-25-2025

@john_koenig99 wrote:
@dinomitesales wrote:
Reports are that CUPW Atlantic has already walked out on strike following the Minister's address.
Source? Couldn't find anything online.

dinomite made a post with a copy of a memo.

C.

sapphyres-designer-jewellery · ‎09-25-2025

@recped wrote:
Where I work, we need mail every day.

I don't think anyone has ever recommended changing the current delivery schedule for business /commercial addresses.

Was just kind of putting in my two cents to participate in the thread... my eBay business doesn't need mail every day, and at work we don't rely on the mail so much because people submit their forms through other means... but mail is important for some.

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postit4me · ‎09-26-2025

What about the thousands of home businesses and people that work from home? What about the disabled? There is many reasons to keep home delivery these are but a few.

silverpinups · ‎09-26-2025

"What about the thousands of home businesses and people that work from home? What about the disabled? There is many reasons to keep home delivery these are but a few".

People with disabilities and the medically fragile (old age) can apply for home delivery as can home businesses can register their homes as a business.

mrdutch1001 · ‎09-26-2025

and how do these folks buy their groceries? are those all home delivered too? How do these folks keep medical appointments? are those all home visits? C'mon give me a break! What do you think folks did 100 years ago? How do you think folks acquired their mail 100 years ago? It's time folks stopped with this idea that everything has to be instantaneous, spoonfed to us.... entitlement ?

Accept,adjust,adapt and carry on!

thebossorder · ‎09-27-2025

i dont like some of the suggestions the government made, such as using ground instead of air for "non" priority mail. something that would usually take a week or 2 could take months if so.
but they should 100% cut home delivery and make it a paid service.

also i heard the salary for post worker is around 31$ or so ? if true thats actually well over what is needed to pay the bills and afford a good life, people would like up like crazy for such a salary and i think workers who arent happy should just quit. note that this comment is made based on my knowledge of the approx salary

flipistics · ‎09-27-2025

@thebossorder wrote:
i dont like some of the suggestions the government made, such as using ground instead of air for "non" priority mail. something that would usually take a week or 2 could take months if so.
but they should 100% cut home delivery and make it a paid service.

Don't the lower tiers for UPS and Purolator use ground (could be wrong)? Their delivery times are basically the same or very similar. Maybe it would add a few days if going to the other side of the country, but it certainly wouldn't add months.

sapphyres-designer-jewellery · ‎09-27-2025

@thebossorder wrote:
i dont like some of the suggestions the government made, such as using ground instead of air for "non" priority mail. something that would usually take a week or 2 could take months if so.
but they should 100% cut home delivery and make it a paid service.

also i heard the salary for post worker is around 31$ or so ? if true thats actually well over what is needed to pay the bills and afford a good life, people would like up like crazy for such a salary and i think workers who arent happy should just quit. note that this comment is made based on my knowledge of the approx salary

$31 an hour is $60,000 a year. (Without overtime)

If you happen to live in a big city, rent could be $2000 per month, then there's car payments, insurance, groceries, bills...

My partner is a landlord and I have to review rental applications and we've determined that his apartments renting for $1900 a month cannot be afford by a family making $60,000 a year (there are single people who support only themselves, and single people with kids they have to support... not every family is a two-person income).

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recped · ‎09-27-2025

@sapphyres-designer-jewellery wrote:
$31 an hour is $60,000 a year. (Without overtime)

Don't forget the value of their relatively (especially lower middle income employment) juicy benefits package and penion plan.

FYI that $31 amount is a STARTING wage, employees who have been employed by CP for 2 years or less generaly 20 somethings.

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