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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Such is the damage wrought by its incompetent management that a once-profitable public corporation is now effectively insolvent.
There needs to be more clarity and more accountability to the Canadian people. Reform of this cherished institution will undoubtedly be painful, and we have already heard the Corporation’s solutions and opinions by business and by customers—however, nothing should be done without hearing and respecting the opinions and experience of Canada Post’s workforce. They have been the ones who made Canada Post a success in the past, and their knowledge and expertise is the key to making it a success again.