Canada Post - Huge losses

Jayell said:
Carriers are required, and expected, to make one legitimate attempt. Anything less is laziness.
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When I had my biz, I shipped an average of 150 domestic packages a week with CPC, about 1/2 were 20KG or more. My customers were operating home based businesses, I'd say almost all of them were satisfied. When I did get complaints, they were often repeats from the customers reporting from the same destinations and the complaint was always carding packages.

I used to offer CPC my client's video of the carrier's carding packages without attempting delivery. They didn't want the videos.
 
Evoex said:
New contract discussion details being released; 7 day delivery is the goal.
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Does that mean delivering mail/parcels 7 days a week OR improving delivery standards to 7 days?
 
How about improving on me having something shipped from Markham and Brussels on the same day and the package from Brussels beats the package from Markham to my door.
 
raginduck said:
Expanding the delivery days will only mean bigger losses for CP in the end.
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You expect a government agency to make good decisions?

Seven day a week delivery combined with less frequent delivery to each address may be a reasonable short-term improvement. Our resident CP experts say there isn't storage room for once a week delivery to each address. Seven day a week delivery and every other or every third day hit on each address may be possible to accommodate within existing space.
 
GreyGhost said:
You expect a government agency to make good decisions?

Seven day a week delivery combined with less frequent delivery to each address may be a reasonable short-term improvement. Our resident CP experts say there isn't storage room for once a week delivery to each address. Seven day a week delivery and every other or every third day hit on each address may be possible to accommodate within existing space.
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I'm pleased with the service I get when sending a few parcels a year and it's more convenient than a courier.

Since I'm the only one in the country that gives a damn about government budgets I would accept slower service if the savings weren't squandered. Cut mail deliveries to twice a week and cut a similar number of workers. Storage space isn't as easy to fix.

The real solution is for the government to think of ways of taking back enough business to justify the service we now have. The words think and government don't work well together. Competition is foreign to them.

Can you pay / negotiate your taxes with anyone but the CRA? Deal with anyone but Border Security? Fly other than Air Canada? Take a train other than Via rail? You must be polite or get cut off no matter the absurdity of the procedure. And wait
 
nobbie48 said:
I'm pleased with the service I get when sending a few parcels a year and it's more convenient than a courier.

Since I'm the only one in the country that gives a damn about government budgets I would accept slower service if the savings weren't squandered. Cut mail deliveries to twice a week and cut a similar number of workers. Storage space isn't as easy to fix.

The real solution is for the government to think of ways of taking back enough business to justify the service we now have. The words think and government don't work well together. Competition is foreign to them.

Can you pay / negotiate your taxes with anyone but the CRA? Deal with anyone but Border Security? Fly other than Air Canada? Take a train other than Via rail? You must be polite or get cut off no matter the absurdity of the procedure. And wait
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Lettermail is going away.. that has nothing to do with competition.
The solution is CP needing to adjust its business to the changing demands. The government and its mandate is one of the obstacles making it difficult for CP to do.
 
raginduck said:
Lettermail is going away.. that has nothing to do with competition.
The solution is CP needing to adjust its business to the changing demands. The government and its mandate is one of the obstacles making it difficult for CP to do.
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Luddites will suffer the most. Sadly some traditions were very heartwarming. A friend used to hand address Christmas cards and put in a personalized note, all done with a fountain pen. The personalized touch was nice. You were a person not a serial number or email address.

We now get a mixed bag of group family emails or a group mailing.

A lot of social services have the same problem. How big does a municipality have to be to justify an ambulance service, or a hospital and what scope of hospital, ranging from a first aid clinic to digital imagery and full surgery? Fire departments are similar.

We all deserve decent social services but what is reasonable care if people isolate themselves.
 
raginduck said:
Did you read the report?
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I read it, nothing new - postal services around the globe have to adapt. Canada Post is not late in understanding their challenges, they have been ranting for years.

They are guilty of poorly adapting to a new digital world. CPC owned home parcel delivery, sadly they fiddled while that business burned.

Now the Feds need to step aside to let CPC sink or swim. Then CPC needs to take ownership for success.
 
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