Instead of looking for ways to modernize operations, Canada Post and the Conservatives are taking an axe to long-treasured postal services – killing good jobs, eliminating home delivery, cutting rural post office hours and drastically increasing postage rates.
6,000 to 8,000 workers will lose their jobs and five million households will lose home delivery over the next five years. Worse yet, no real consultation was done by Canada Post, effectively eliminating any opportunity for input from the people who will be most affected.
By cutting services, it is possible that Canada Post will drive away customers and raise the costs. Canada Post offers a public service that needs to be protected.
I oppose the cuts to services recently announced by Canada Post
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home delivery trucks.The Federal Government has also blocked the Post Office from offering internet banking services to compete with the banks. The problem is not with home delivery but with a totally incompetent Canada Post Administration that serves itself but not the Public and a right wing Federal Conservative Government that serves big business and ignores the interests of the average Canadian and the impovershed.