Weekly delivery would be fine for 99 percent of people. Most important mail is electronic now after the last few strikes forced businesses to find a better way. Actually can't think of much of anything that needs mailed anymore. They also do a terrible job at packages and are more expensive, if I ship by courier they will make multiple delivery attempts before asking you to pick up. Which is way better than zero attempts and a card. IMHO the union has made cp irrelevant unfortunately.
I think they tried to eliminate all door to door deliveries years ago and the government (can't think of which one) stopped this process midway through the change due to union opposition about job losses. Here in Orangeville there are streets where some continue to get door to door delivery, while neighbours a few houses away are now using super boxes.
If they go on strike I might not even notice.
It's common, if we strike they lock us out. We gave notice first.
Same here in daHood (Scarborough) I have door to door but any new builds have superboxes.
Up here the change over was in full swing in some of the older neighbourhoods. All of the newer built areas, (anything less than 30 years old), already had super box delivery only. But the older areas had always been door-to-door. It's those areas where super boxes were installed and then as the change was happening it came to a sudden stop. It was just luck of the draw where the line was drawn between home and super box deliveries.
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That has been the case for over a year. So both parties had agreed to extend an expired contract. That last until 12.01am this morning as the company has declined to agree to extend it.
I can't speak to all the 'issues'.STRIKE ON FRIDAY: Here’s What You Need to Know
On the morning of Tuesday, November 12, your National Executive Board issued a 72-hour strike notice to Canada Post for both the Rural Suburban Mail Carriers (RSMC) and Urban Operations bargaining units. The National Executive Board has decided that a nationwide strike of both bargaining units...
I doubt the truth will ever come out but my suspicion is they are underpricing flyers for the work actually involved. Keeping flyer volume up looks good on paper and justifies existence of CP. If they compensated staff for the time required and charged what is required to deliver flyers profitably, almost that entire product line would dry up imo. That would be another step towards irrelevance. It does make it much easier to drop delivery frequency as you have cut 80% of the volume of garbage flowing through so it may be feasible to do delivery every week as storage requirements are hugely cut.
