Canada Post

[500channelsurfer]

It is unacceptable that this company insists on going on unreformed, while being guaranteed funding through taxpayer-funded subsidy.

As mail volumes decline, Canada Post needs to expand its services, which necessarily will be via its outlets, everything from secure package delivery holding (avoid porch poaching), recharge and re-battery your cellphone, recharge your electric car, pick up your grocery basket, pay your public utilities (gas, taxes, telecom, electric bill), help Revenue Canada by being a service outlet for them too, combine with recycling centres for people to drop off their cans, bottles and valuable used and recycleable metals, identity confirmation and photo for your driver's license and passport, service Canada Savings Bonds, etc.

There is no shortage of employment nor services to provide. Mail should be delivered 2-3 times per week instead of coming every day to new, large, inconvenient and ugly community mailboxes that people will only access 2-3 times per week anyway. Employees can be re-assigned to outlets from redundant door-to-door assignment.

There are many communities in Canada that lack banking, big box stores large grocery stores, Costco, etc. but they all have a Canada Post outlet. This is a valuable go-between that is not being utilized.

I don't understand how this has not been brough to Parliament for consideration even if through private member's bill. Current administrations have been both unimaginative and dogmatic regarding this company.

Edited April 17 by 500channelsurfer

[August1991]

5 hours ago, 500channelsurfer said:

It is unacceptable that this company insists on going on unreformed, while being guaranteed funding through taxpayer-funded subsidy.

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I agree.

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But people in various parts of Canada should receive mail, have access to the Internet, speak to federal bureaucrats in French/English.

[Barquentine]

12 hours ago, 500channelsurfer said:

everything from secure package delivery holding (avoid porch poaching), recharge and re-battery your cellphone, recharge your electric car, pick up your grocery basket, pay your public utilities (gas, taxes, telecom, electric bill), help Revenue Canada by being a service outlet for them too, combine with recycling centres for people to drop off their cans, bottles and valuable used and recycleable metals, identity confirmation and photo for your driver's license and passport, service Canada Savings Bonds, etc.

That's a ridiculous list. Recyling? Doing thingt anybody can do online? Recharging cars?

[herbie]

15 hours ago, 500channelsurfer said:

It is unacceptable that this company insists on going on unreformed,

It's not. 

The ultra-conservative BS has to be nipped in the bud. Abandoning the CBC and now the Post Office? Wanna privatize CPP, EI and schools next?

Canada has the infrastructure to take over the bulk of parcel delivery and lower the cost for consumers. It could also implement an email in Post Office services for people without computers and Internet, even provide low cost in home mail terminals if needed.

[eyeball]

I've driven or boated into town to check the same post box for almost 50 years now.

I kind of expected drones would be dropping/picking things up by now. It's not that I'm in any particular hurry but the future never did come fast enough for my liking.