Big changes coming to Canada Post
Summary: La discusión se centra en los cambios propuestos por Canada Post, que podrían acabar con la entrega a domicilio. cottagewoman comparte un enlace sobre un posible amago de huelga del sindicato CUPW. reallynicestamps propone una entrega reducida a tres días semanales para hogares, sugiriendo que ciertos cambios no afectarían demasiado en comunidades pequeñas, mientras que a negocios seguirían con cinco días. Otros como postit4me expresan preocupación por el impacto en personas discapacitadas y negocios desde casa. easoss menciona que el impacto será mayor en áreas rurales. Se mencionan dudas respecto a sugerencias gubernamentales, como cambiar de aéreo a terrestre para ciertos envíos, lo que podría afectar los tiempos de entrega. Hay un debate sobre el salario de los trabajadores postales, que algunos consideran alto mientras que otros señalan que puede no ser suficiente en ciudades grandes.
This could portend a CUPW strike
thebossorder
·10 months agoi 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
·10 months agoDon'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.
ilikehockeyjerseys
·10 months ago"The government is also instructing the postal service to adjust its letter mail delivery standards by moving non-urgent mail by ground instead of air. This change is expected to increase the time it takes to deliver letter mail from an average of three to four days to an average of three to seven days."
As someone who has sent 10,000+ oversized pieces of lettermail over the last few years I find this to be hilarious. Don't get me wrong, lettermail is a fantastic service at the price point, but there must be some sort of "kayfabe" about delivery standard times, where for the sake of communicating this message, Canada Post is pretending they are actually followed for lettermail.
Lettermail has never been 3-4 days. It is sometimes 3-4 days. It is sometimes 3-4 weeks. Luck of the draw. In a perfect world, if this change meant lettermail takes a week or two, that wouldn't be a problem for sellers so long as it was consistent. The issue is going to be if instead of taking 2-4 weeks, it takes 5-8 weeks.
It's very obvious to me that the model based on oversized lettermail selling is dead. If I didn't already have inventory as a sunk cost, there is no way I would enter that market.
flipistics
·10 months ago@ilikehockeyjerseys I've never had issues with lettermail delivery times and used to ship media and small books that way all the time. In fact, I had one person get it in under 24 hours (and they definitely weren't local). I don't think I've EVER had one take 3-4 weeks, at least not that I know of. I stopped shipping lettermail in the aftermath of last year's postal strike when there WERE massive delays, but those delays were from the strike and not the norm. When this current strike is finally over and things get back to normal, I'll be happy to ship that way again.
sapphyres-designer-jewellery
·10 months ago$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
·10 months agoDon'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.
marnotom!
·10 months agoI'm getting the impression that $31/hr is more like the top of the wage range.
A lot of sites that I'm checking are giving figures more like $23-25 as averages or medians, depending on the position and the location.
Here's what the Govmint Job Bank has for wage figures for letter carriers right now:
https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/marketreport/wages-occupation/15239/ca
sapphyres-designer-jewellery
·10 months agoI looked at that, if they were getting $25 an hour, it would be 50K a year full time (with no overtime).
Where I work we have a pretty good benefits package (with increasing vacation after years of employment, being able to choose which benefits we would like that are important to us - medical, dental, flexible work at home schedules). The postal workers have good benefits too, but I don't envy what they get since I have a pretty good deal at my work.
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dinomitesales
·10 months agoReports are that CUPW Atlantic has already walked out on strike following the Minister's address.
john_koenig99
·10 months agoSource? Couldn't find anything online.
sapphyres-designer-jewellery
·10 months agodinomite made a post with a copy of a memo.
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easoss
·10 months agoLiving in the city, this announcement isn't much of anything. However it will have more large repercussions for people in rural areas.
reallynicestamps
·10 months agoI'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.
marnotom!
·10 months agoExactly. 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.
mrdutch1001
·10 months ago"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
·10 months agoWhere 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.
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recped
·10 months agoWhere I work, we need mail every day.
I don't think anyone has ever recommended changing the current delivery schedule for business /commercial addresses.
sapphyres-designer-jewellery
·10 months agoWas 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
·10 months agoWhat 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
·10 months ago"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
·10 months agoand 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!
john_koenig99
·10 months agoSo 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.