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lotzofuniquegoodies · ‎08-29-2024

What will happen to eBay sellers when or if....

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/canada-post-at-critical-juncture-financial-situation-unsustainable-b...

https://globalnews.ca/video/10724990/business-matters-canada-post-chair-says-company-at-critical-jun... CP story at the 1:00 mark

Not everyone has access to Chit Chats etc and UPS/Fedex would not be realistic for most.

brettjet38 · ‎08-29-2024

This is Government Propaganda, they want to turn Canada Post into a parcel delivery service and all the workers into part-time (25 hours per week) delivery employees.

And they want to deliver later in the day and into the evening, do you think the overpaid old-timers will want to start later in the day, lol?

This is about automation and getting rid of white-collar supervisors and posties who have had routes for decades.

Also, they are going to eliminate all walking routes and want to reduce letter (not parcels) delivery to 3 times a week.

How do I know, my friend is a postie and we have been talking about this for 2 years already...

byto253 · ‎08-29-2024

Some changes are going to be needed. The world of communication has shifted and the 1970s model for letter delivery is looking pretty outdated. But management of any big organization, public or private, will try to use that as a shield to push through other things like making more and more people part-time.

dinomitesales · ‎08-29-2024

Canada Post isn't going anywhere in the near future. There will be changes but it's not going to *poof* out of existence.

Also, take any recent statements from Canada Post with a grain of salt - they're staring down the barrel of a strike and want to raise as much sympathy for the company as possible in an attempt to make the union look like the bad guys for wanting more.

lotzofuniquegoodies · ‎08-29-2024

@dinomitesales wrote:
Canada Post isn't going anywhere in the near future. There will be changes but it's not going to *poof* out of existence.

Also, take any recent statements from Canada Post with a grain of salt - they're staring down the barrel of a strike and want to raise as much sympathy for the company as possible in an attempt to make the union look like the bad guys for wanting more.

@dinomitesales

The neverending price increases...recent example the small prepaid box.... are not helping. A buck difference for next size up. Weird pricing strategy. More affordable something is the more likely people will continue to utilize. Same thing happens with the buses every time they have their like clockwork increase. Folks cut their usage.

ypdc_dennis · ‎08-30-2024

@lotzofuniquegoodies wrote:
...recent example the small prepaid box.... are not helping. A buck difference for next size up. Weird pricing strategy.

You mean the Extra Small box versus the Small box. Price change just means it is a very popular box versus the other sizes. It still keeps selling out at my local outlet (which I have not seen happening with the other sizes).

lotzofuniquegoodies · ‎08-30-2024

@ypdc_dennis wrote:
@lotzofuniquegoodies wrote:
...recent example the small prepaid box.... are not helping. A buck difference for next size up. Weird pricing strategy.
You mean the Extra Small box versus the Small box. Price change just means it is a very popular box versus the other sizes. It still keeps selling out at my local outlet (which I have not seen happening with the other sizes).

Personally, for me the item has to both fit and has to be at least Mb, Ont or farther east. At 16.99 savings are pennies for anything local. At 16.99 +GST it was a good value...price break. 17.99 +GST..Not so much. Would be an awesome buy if you just sell the same item all day long. In my case, I don't.

mrdutch1001 · ‎08-30-2024

no need for "the sky is falling! the sky is falling!"...

We will do what we always have done over past decades when strikes,pending strikes,lockouts,walkouts have occurred...

Accept,adjust,adapt and carry on!

marnotom! · ‎08-30-2024

This isn’t about eBay sellers. This is about almost 40 million Canadians dependent on a reliable, far-reaching national postal system as one part of the economy’s backbone.

This Global News piece isn’t as hysterical but instead does a pretty good job of laying out some of CPC’s challenges and some possibly partial fixes:

https://globalnews.ca/news/10480192/canada-post-financial-challenges/

reallynicestamps · ‎08-30-2024

I see no problem with domestic letter delivery moving to three days a week. I suspect on many routes, including my own, that this is already the norm.

We rarely get mail on Wednesdays,usually on Mondays and Thursdays, although I confess I have not kept a record of this, but I do include "junk mail" deliveries with this observation.

This is differerent from packages which arrive any day of the week, even occasionally on Saturdays around Christmas.

And also from business mail, which can be more time dependent.

darak10 · ‎09-09-2024

Canada Post is run by complete morons. I and most other sellers who have done this long enough could each write our own book of the short sighted decisions they have made to hoop themselves out of being a viable, profitable business.

They are like Air Canada when the sky was falling with them 15 years ago - they are too big to fail. At the end of the day the feds will bail them out in worst case scenario situations. As someone said earlier this is propaganda intended to bust the union, not like it would take much to knock the wind out of CUPW. As unions go they are the weakest and most ineffectual one I'm aware of.

The major downside to this scenario is you cant go and buy a boatload of shares of their near penny stock on the TSX for peanuts, sit on it for years, then make out like a bloody bandit when the stock finally recovers, like I did with AC.