Are we done with Canada Post yet?
- Thread starter Skoob
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+Why not outsource CP to Amazon? I see an amazon truck in my neighborhood a couple of times a day. Why can't that truck deliver the mail as well? Geez get creative for Christ's sake.
Because tomorrow Amazon will decide to charge 10 times more for delivering all essential mail, and what are you going to do?
Ford is going to spend $3B dollars next year to give everyone in Ontario $200 dollars. So, that's not even such a big deficit as people try to make it be.
Does healthcare need to be profitable? Does the police need to be profitable? Does the fire department need to be profitable?
The mistake people are making is that they look at Canada Post as for-profit business. It's not and it shouldn't be.
The difference is Ford is not running a company. These are not deficits, they're financial losses.
Canada Post is a proprietary governmental organization... meaning they have a P & L. It is not like health care etc.
Really?How do you get your driver's licence? OHIP? Do you know how people get their disability cheques and so on and so forth. Not even talking that every country must have their own Postal Service to not rely on other country mercy if something goes wrong...
Canada Post should definitely not be egregiously wasteful because they are non-profit neither. Efficiencies and improvements should be a constant with all government operations and the underwriter taxpayers should not be taken for granted .
What difference does it really make? I would rather have Canada Post and don't have $200 then vice versa.
I totally agree. But people here propose to abolish or sell it to private company. Which is an extremely bad solution.
Yes, it's a Crown corporation. But it's owned by the government of Canada which use tax payer money. So, yeah, i would like it to be more efficient and profitable, but saying that P&L matters here is not very accurate.
Cheques... Direct Deposits or deposits on pre-paid cards. It is already being done elsewhere.
Licenses etc... have them printed out real time when the person is there... no need to use mail.
Other countries... ok you have me... but that is where outsourcing to Amazon or other 3rd party comes in. Make them bid on it. It would not be a monopoly. UPS, Fedex, Puralotor (yes this is CP), Amazon all drive deliver.
Snail mail is becoming obsolete... time to think ahead and modernize operations.
Do you understand proprietary governmental funds and operations? Geez... hint the world is not flat.
Do you? Does proprietary governmental funds need to profitable? Can the government issue loans to the proprietary governmental funds?
Simple. I don't look at Canada Post as a business that needs to post profit. I look at Canada Post as an essential service. The way is structured is irrelevant to me as at the end of the day Canada Post is owned by Canadian government.
