I needed to get an envelope with a few tax documents to a client that lives in Burlington. The cheapest XPress Post price (3 business days no signature required) was $28.25 including HST from my office in Etobicoke. This same time last year it cost me $19.20 including HST. Almost 50% more. What a load of crap. I refuse to pay that nonsense.
Just shut Canada Post down already
- Thread starter K Douglas
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Best I can do is give all Canada post employees a 200% raise, extra paid 2 weeks vacation, and free day care on site.
Use email document with some docusign type service.
I use Adobe Scan app and Adobe signature to completely avoid printing or posting paper documents.
I use Adobe Scan app and Adobe signature to completely avoid printing or posting paper documents.
For that price, you could have driven them yourself or sent them in an Uber.
How much would Fedex or similar commercial alternates be for the same thing?
I have a Purolator account. They offer next day for $29.99. I don't need that level of service. The client is currently out of the country.
The client wants original documentation back and a physical copy of her tax filings. She's retired and old school.
I don't like putting confidential information in regular mail because the chance of losing it is a lot higher than with XPress Post.
So what would you do if Canada Post was not an option? Sounds like they're still the lowest cost for the service you require.
It's gotten so bad that my office has just resorted to using courier services that tend to be as expensive or slightly cheaper and will get there way faster than mailing something
While certainly Canada Post can use some streamlining and efficiency improvements, including reducing delivery frequency, and cutting out home delivery, with exceptions for those who truly need that, imo it is still an essential service for many Canadians, without any reasonably affordable day-to-day alternatives.
Just like the police, firefighters, and other tax funded essential services...
Just like the police, firefighters, and other tax funded essential services...
My accountant sent us a note 4 years ago that she's going full digital and that all those who needed a hard copy would be invoiced an extra 100$.
She did not lose a single client, as you comply easily or you pay.
I guess you will simply invoice the client, so down the road you won't have to pay.
That's 95% of my clientele everything is in digital form. But the other 5% want physical hard copies. Yes I rebill expenses but with this particular client she is lower income and I try as best to keep her price as low as possible.
Canada Post employees get paid exceptionally for the job they do in comparison to private couriers, and all they do is complain about not having enough. The reality check will be real for this entitled group.
It should be a government service, but it should be the mail only. Not business packages. They use the fact they have a money losing delivery network that is required by law to serve every address to subsidize the small package division to undercut courier companies, including the largest one, which they own. If grandma knits a sweater, she can mail it. If Amazon wants to ship a box, send it through a courier company or their own delivery network, not some artificially subsidized undercutting service.
Depends which courier companies you are talking about. UPS, Fedex and Purolator all make well above what a Canada Post delivery person makes and it's not even close. As well, Canada Post employees also have 10% taken off their gross pay each week for pension contribution, the courier companies all have fully employer paid pensions. The average UPS driver makes north of $100k with basic overtime and many of them work a lot more overtime than that. Canada Post letter carriers have to pound away at the OT to get over $70-75k
i dont think they should be shut down but i definitely think there needs to be some manner of optimization of their workforce and business model
