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dipmicro · ‎12-12-2013

In their ongoing effort to work less for more money while at the same time giving our overweight nation more opportunities for daily exercise, CanadaPost intends to phase out door mailboxes in favor of community mailboxes over next 5 yrs:

http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/assets/pdf/aboutus/5_en.pdf

I did not know we actually did have door-to-door delivery, as it implies pickup 🙂

dipmicro · ‎12-12-2013

Gives the new meaning to Item Not Received.

- Sir, we sent you a bill a month ago, did you receive it ?
- Sorry, it never made it to my door.

phlyonthewall · ‎12-12-2013

It's not so much the door to door mailbox issue that bothers me. It's the raising of stamps by 37%, how do explain to my customers that I have to raise my shipping when I already get heat over what I charge ? I don'y make anything of shipping and yet I have to raise my prices.

reallynicestamps · ‎12-12-2013

Canada has never demonetized any stamps since 1867. In fact, you can still use Newfoundland stamps on Canadian mail.

dipmicro · ‎12-12-2013

You get "heat" for charging $2 shipping?

Took me some time to find this info, they do not particularly advertise it. CanadaPost seem to think that increasing the price of stamp will bring extra $200M. What happens if most of the mail that would get sent will not due to the price hike and instead of extra 200M it will result in additional loss. Add cost of installing community mailboxes. On another hand union will not allow them reduce the carriers.

CanadaPost is trying to commit suicide and IMO it's about time.

marnotom! · ‎12-12-2013

@dipmicro wrote:

Took me some time to find this info, they do not particularly advertise it. CanadaPost seem to think that increasing the price of stamp will bring extra $200M. What happens if most of the mail that would get sent will not due to the price hike and instead of extra 200M it will result in additional loss. Add cost of installing community mailboxes. On another hand union will not allow them reduce the carriers.

Businesses worth their salt will factor in a decline in sales volume when doing the number-crunching related to an increase in price of its goods and services. Say what you will about how Canada Post is run, but I don't think anybody there is naive enough to think that its lettermail division is going to remain stable or that its decline is going to continue at the same rate for the next half decade or so.