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musicyouneed · ‎09-27-2025

Take out your crystal ball regarding Canada Post. What do you think is going to happen? Are the postal workers going to be on strike till Christmas? Canada Post has 45 days to produce a plan re the proposed changes, are the postal workers going to stay out till then or longer?

I am hoping that by mid month Oct the government orders them back to work with arbitration. I am hoping that the government says that Canada Post has to work within it's budget and that they are not going to be bailed out by the tax payer. They need to cut about 20% of their workforce. Canada post workers are not going to like that one bit. It is going to get ugly.

What does your crystal ball say?

flipistics · ‎09-27-2025

I think by November 1st at the latest (more likely two weeks or so) they'll order them back to work until after Christmas and the various plans and reviews are completed. I think the union will defy the order. Who knows what happens then.

The smarter move might be to declare them an essential service and then take the union up on binding arbitration based on the new mandate. It's going to be ugly one way or the other.

musicyouneed · ‎09-28-2025

I like this guy from CBC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvMw6RazmrI

silverpinups · ‎09-28-2025

The government will order them back to work before mid October. This knee jerk reaction to striking by CUPW wasn't very thought out and the postal workers will be starving soon without their pay checks.

They already said months earlier that they couldn't afford to go on strike and CUPW as depleted their strike pay for it's members with the last strike in Nov/24.

visual-sound · ‎09-28-2025

Canada Post is losing $10 million dollars a DAY! Let's go on strike for more money.

skylarstuff · ‎09-28-2025

Make them an essential service. Like in the USA. End of problem, and no more businesses being held hostage.

byto253 · ‎09-28-2025

Though you have to get a bit of a laugh about CBC continually hammering on CP losing 4 billion dollars over the last 7 years, during which time the CBC has received subsidies of at least $10 billion. Who is bankrupt?

And the CBC does not allow any comments on the video. My vote is defund the CBC and make CP an essential service.

john_koenig99 · ‎09-28-2025

Don't know and don't care about it anymore.

I dropped more than half on my listings (no auctions for the time being), and will use ChitChats if anything gets sold...It was already slow as molassess, thanks to the Big Orange in Washington, anyways.

lotzofuniquegoodies · ‎09-28-2025

@byto253 wrote:
Though you have to get a bit of a laugh about CBC continually hammering on CP losing 4 billion dollars over the last 7 years, during which time the CBC has received subsidies of at least $10 billion. Who is bankrupt?

And the CBC does not allow any comments on the video. My vote is defund the CBC and make CP an essential service.

Guess this means Free Tuesday's in October is DOA!!

byto253 · ‎09-28-2025

I'm thinking 2 weeks. Government does not want to appear to hasty but not let it drag to long.

thebossorder · ‎09-28-2025

i dont know but i sure hope soon. they lose 10 millions a day ? good cut costs, employees, make it essential and worse case taxe me to sustain it. its like 25 cents a day for every people living in canada ...

reallynicestamps · ‎09-28-2025

I suggest making residential delivery three days a week , but including Saturdays. This would reduce the number of carriers needed but give a wanted (if unnecessary) bonus to home delivery.

Business delivries stay at five days a week.

Residential parcel delivery, where the money is, goes to six days a week.

There will be a lot of scheduling necessary to make the carriers' work weeks stay the agreed five days, but some might enjoy variety. They seem to change their chosen walks pretty often anyway.

No cutbacks in unionized staff.

If they go for rotating strikes, with Mississauga, Winnipeg, and Vancouver being more random and shorter than the last couple of times, they might retain some good will from the general public.

musicyouneed · ‎09-28-2025

The more I think about this it would be hard for the union workers to just go back to work without being legislated. What are they going to say, oops we made a mistake by going on strike. The strike fund is broke and at $25 hr the workers are loosing about $1,000 a week. Taking that into consideration, they will be out for at least 2 to 3 weeks until they get legislated back. If they don't get legislated back I feel it will be a long strike.

I'm really mad. Changes should have been made to the Post Office over the years to adjust to the times. Definately changes need to be made and about 20% of the workforce let go. So of the 55,000 employees, 10,000 or so should be let go.

I used to work for the government and I remember in 2012. It was bad, they offered buyouts and early retirements to many of the employees and then everyone was merit rated. I survived but did have to change jobs within the public service, my dream job no longer existed, but I had a job.

2012 Cuts:
The Harper government targeted 19,200 positions, achieving more than half of that target in the first six months of the fiscal year.

sapphyres-designer-jewellery · ‎09-29-2025

@musicyouneed wrote:

I'm really mad. Changes should have been made to the Post Office over the years to adjust to the times. Definately changes need to be made and about 20% of the workforce let go. So of the 55,000 employees, 10,000 or so should be let go.

Me too (mad that is).

I'm trying to save my business amidst all the US tariffs and trying to get buyers to trust me because I feel that all trust has been lost with US buyers. It's an uphill battle to try and make sales.

And then a bunch of shenanigans go on at Canada Post wrecking what little I have left to work with.

To say it makes me angry is a complete understatement.

C.

musicyouneed · ‎09-29-2025

"No cutbacks in unionized staff. "

They have to get rid of some of the unionized staff. 65% of the operating expenses are wages. I think they have to let go of 20% of the staff. Some will retire, some will get buyouts, some will change positions, and some will be let go.

In 2024, Canada Post reported that labour and employee benefits constituted 64.9% of their total operating expenses. This means that for every dollar Canada Post spent on its operations, almost 65 cents went to employee compensation and benefits, with daily labour costs alone exceeding $10 million in that year.

katlover1952 · ‎09-29-2025

Both great ideas!

katlover1952 · ‎09-29-2025

Feeling exactly the same.

lotzofuniquegoodies · ‎09-30-2025

@katlover1952 wrote:
Feeling exactly the same.

@katlover1952

@musicyouneed

@sapphyres-designer-jewellery

IF CP (Corp) and its employees are going to be doing damage control when this gets eventually resolved, small businesses etc are going to be doing the same x 100 to build back any trust with their customers. For many there just aren't alternatives.

As for eBay caring....should they? I'm thinking if they did they wouldn't have attached an inaccurate banner to our listings!! Heyy...just saying!!