Another Canada Post strike

xmontrealer said:

Canada Post wants the government to force the union to vote on it's "Final Offer".

The government said it won't force a vote, and stated that the two parties must come to a mutual agreement.

That hasn't worked since the strike last year, and isn't working now.

Imho the government doesn't want to force anything more at this point, as it doesn't want to appear to be the "bad guy" to labour.

Instead they'll sit back and allow the issue to fester until it does become a full-blown strike, with unfortunate consequences for Canadian individuals and businesses.

Cowards!

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Skoob said:

Last time they went on strike, most companies had to scramble. Since then, they've worked on moving away from dependencies on Canada Post. Most of the revenue comes from companies. That revenue is not coming back.

So every time Canada Post threatens to go on strike, they are only contributing to their own demise.

These union hacks live in a bubble and feel entitled to more and more regardless of how well the company is doing.

Canada can't afford to give Canada Post $1 billion+ loan to stay afloat only for them to keep losing money every year.

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xmontrealer said:

That may be so, but I consider some basic model of a relatively inexpensive, yet timely, postal service to be essential for many individual Canadians and small businesses.

Perhaps reduced delivery days to each address, but at least once a week, if not twice.

They should be considered an "essential service", and not permitted to strike. Binding arbitration being the only acceptable alternative.

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xmontrealer said:

For me it's my morning candy with breakfast. Early morning home delivery, politics (with a conservative bias), pro-Semitic, anti-Hamas, sports, entertainment news, etc. What more can I ask for at breakfast?

I have a New York Times digital subscription for up-to-the-minute news and more serious content, with a "left" bias, plus a weekly subscription to The New Yorker magazine for interesting articles, anti-Trump political comments, and of course the great cartoons.

And TERB for the really important stuff lol

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Skoob said:

Binding arbitration to keep an organization that has not adapted with the times is a waste of time, money and effort.
They face a dilemma: wanting to keep a large unionized workforce employed while demand dwindles. That doesn't work in most other businesses and doesn't work here.

The government would be better off subsidizing private mail delivery than lending money we don't have to keep an inefficient dinosaur alive.

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xmontrealer said:

In the situation you envision, what should the charge be for the private mail delivery of a standard No.10 envelope of usual weight, to be sent anywhere in Canada with, say, a 7 to 10 day delivery standard, which is what Canada Post can usually do today for $1.23?

And how much money do you think the government would have to subsidize a private mail service to maintain that rate?

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Skoob said:

The amount of small-large businesses using Canada post has been dwindling for many years. They've already found alternatives that work for them, especially after being held hostage by the last strike.
Sending paper mail is bad for the environment so it needs to be drastically reduced.
Even if Canada post subsidizes the cost of postage at the current rate, it would still be saving money by shedding all of the operational costs.

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xmontrealer said:

You didn't mention how important Canada Post is to individual Canadians, especially seniors.

Nor did you attempt to estimate how much the subsidies would cost the government. Of course how could you know how much that would be?

As far as paper mail and the environment, the junk mail I receive far outweighs any actual important mail I receive or send, although I imagine it helps to mitigate the operating costs of Canada Post.

Let's agree to disagree...

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farquhar said:

It's the individual Banks that set the limits for E-transfers; the limit has to be high enough in order to render cheques obsolete.

I can send an E-transfer up to $7,500/day with BMO, which should be sufficient for most payments to Contractors.

CIBC, by comparison, has the ceiling set at $3,000/day.

Interac should force all participants in the E-transfer service to have one standardized set of limits.

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K Douglas said:

I'm with RBC they won't go beyond $3K either. I asked for a $5K limit and they refused. I've been banking with them for 25+ years.

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Vinson said:

Is the postal strike threat over? I was going to order something.

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xmontrealer said:

Far from over. The government won't force the union to vote on Canada Post's "Final Offer" from last week, and won't force Canada Post to agree to the union's request for "fair and binding arbitration".

So I think a full-blown strike is inevitable, and the government won't do anything to stop it, except perhaps to allow a full strike to run for 4 or more weeks, and then force the workers back to work again for another few months or so.

Taking us back to the same stalemate.

In other words, kicking the can down the road...

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xmontrealer said:

How would the average person or small business who has to mail small items, or mail payments because they don't have internet access or knowledge, afford the extreme cost differences.

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JohnLarue said:

you either adapt and grow or you wither and die

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xmontrealer said:

not that there's anything wrong with that given the current state of Canada's economy and unemployment rate...

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