So ban themselves too? Might want to lookup who is the majority shareholder of purolator…
Let’s not make an untenable situation even worse. Also government intervention in the marketplace never ends well, and it’s time to face the facts. Mail as it was, is no longer viable. That’s going to suck for a lot of people, and I mean that sucks for sure, I’m not a heartless bastard. But, it pretty clearly isn’t functional.
Crown corporations hold monopolies in Canada all the time. Canada Post is only losing money, because it’s only delivering mail. Instead of that service including packages, the Canadian government allowed them to outsource those services to private contractors. That’s when they started losing money. Privatization is how all good services eventually die. They need to take that back, and start providing more than just mail delivery, if they’re going to stay solvent.
Expanding Canada Post has been a disaster every time it’s been tried. They are always too slow to respond, and it’s always been just an endless suck of funds. I’m thinking about their stores concepts, the Facebook wanna be marketplace. There’s been a lot of turds over the years. Big old confused and bloated crown corp, like we’ve all seen this one.
Is it mismanaged, for sure it has been. I agree on the precipice that privatization usually sucks, that’s not what I’m really arguing for. But when we say if they are going to be solvent, they need to do more than mail delivery, like right there that’s the gist. Mail delivery isn’t ever going to be a solvent endeavor. So now the question is, OK so where’s the fine line here then, like what’s enough and how much are we willing to burn, what’s not enough and what is too much cash spent? Canada Postal Workers Union though, just drew a line in the sand so hard that I’m not sure how they envision coming out of this one on top, like the institution is belly up for all intents and purposes. On the flip side, the executives obviously fucked this one up pretty hard too.
I dunno, it’s a real son of a situation, that’s for sure. One that isn’t likely going to end well for either side, no matter what falls out here.
Canada Post hasn’t been “expanded” at all, though. It’s been carved up and sold off over the last 10 to 15 years, thanks to the Harper government’s intervention in the way they are allowed to operate. Prior to 2010, CP was one of the most efficient and profitable institutions in Canada.
But thanks to the Harper government, they stopped providing the kinds of services that are now dominated by private companies, who all swooped in to fill the void created by those decisions to “cut operating costs”. Those jobs used to be all done by Canada Post. Now they’re all being done by FedEx etc.
This was a deliberate effort by the Harper government to starve Canad Post of revenue, in order to hasten the shift to a fully privatized delivery system. We’re just watching the final results of those decisions now.
So ban themselves too? Might want to lookup who is the majority shareholder of purolator…
Let’s not make an untenable situation even worse. Also government intervention in the marketplace never ends well, and it’s time to face the facts. Mail as it was, is no longer viable. That’s going to suck for a lot of people, and I mean that sucks for sure, I’m not a heartless bastard. But, it pretty clearly isn’t functional.
Crown corporations hold monopolies in Canada all the time. Canada Post is only losing money, because it’s only delivering mail. Instead of that service including packages, the Canadian government allowed them to outsource those services to private contractors. That’s when they started losing money. Privatization is how all good services eventually die. They need to take that back, and start providing more than just mail delivery, if they’re going to stay solvent.
Expanding Canada Post has been a disaster every time it’s been tried. They are always too slow to respond, and it’s always been just an endless suck of funds. I’m thinking about their stores concepts, the Facebook wanna be marketplace. There’s been a lot of turds over the years. Big old confused and bloated crown corp, like we’ve all seen this one.
Is it mismanaged, for sure it has been. I agree on the precipice that privatization usually sucks, that’s not what I’m really arguing for. But when we say if they are going to be solvent, they need to do more than mail delivery, like right there that’s the gist. Mail delivery isn’t ever going to be a solvent endeavor. So now the question is, OK so where’s the fine line here then, like what’s enough and how much are we willing to burn, what’s not enough and what is too much cash spent? Canada Postal Workers Union though, just drew a line in the sand so hard that I’m not sure how they envision coming out of this one on top, like the institution is belly up for all intents and purposes. On the flip side, the executives obviously fucked this one up pretty hard too.
I dunno, it’s a real son of a situation, that’s for sure. One that isn’t likely going to end well for either side, no matter what falls out here.
Canada Post hasn’t been “expanded” at all, though. It’s been carved up and sold off over the last 10 to 15 years, thanks to the Harper government’s intervention in the way they are allowed to operate. Prior to 2010, CP was one of the most efficient and profitable institutions in Canada.
But thanks to the Harper government, they stopped providing the kinds of services that are now dominated by private companies, who all swooped in to fill the void created by those decisions to “cut operating costs”. Those jobs used to be all done by Canada Post. Now they’re all being done by FedEx etc.
This was a deliberate effort by the Harper government to starve Canad Post of revenue, in order to hasten the shift to a fully privatized delivery system. We’re just watching the final results of those decisions now.
Yes the fact that USB c can charge all phones now is horrible how could the EU have done this to the world.