No Mail To Or From Canada Due To Canadian Postal Strike

They're predicted to run out of money completely by mid 2025. That's why the corporation isn't negotiating with the union. And there doesn't appear to be a lot of sympathy from the public. The union is demanding a 24% wage increase over the next 4 years. The last 4 years saw an inflationary increase in Canada of 16% so this is ridiculous even by Canadian standards.

They're also against contract workers delivering on nights and weekends, something that other carriers have been doing since the stone age, because the union wants only perm full time workers to do this work, something that isn't sustainable financially and isn't in keeping with how the competition already does it. But unions only care about increasing their membership, not whether or not a business is economically viable.

Pity, I have personalized greeting cards this year I would've loved to send out. Other than that, the impact of their strike has been zilch. All this while the competition continues to eat their lunch.

The ones who are really suffering are those in remote areas, who can only receive deliveries and mail via Canada Post. Other carriers won't do last mile deliveries there as it's cost prohibitive.

If Canada Post is to survive, they need to make money on the short range delivery routes to support the cost of the remote carrying costs. But they won't modernize, and the union won't let them anyway.

Will be interesting to see how this ultimately plays out over the not-so-long run. The Canada Post corporation is in deep financial trouble, whether or not they reach a deal in this instance.

I don't care, do you?

R1, yeah, I am normally sympathetic to the rights of workers, but it seems wrong of the postal workers to go on strike right before Christmas when Canadians are trying to send their Christmas cards and gifts through the mail to their loved ones.

Pretty much r2. That's the extent of his leadership on any issue.

Whenever there's a strike people will complain bitterly about being inconvenienced. That's the point of a strike. I don't have a lot of sympathy for people like r3 who side against organized labor because of some mild inconvenience.

No, Canada!

Organized labour in Canada has too much power, especially in the public sector. Americans are largely unaware of this as unions do not hold nearly the same power in their country. The CP union is at least in part responsible for preventing the type of workforce modernization that would have allowed them to keep pace with its competitors.

Many here think in binary terms (unions GOOD, companies BAD because we are leftists so we HAVE TO think that way). It's a very tired Marxist talking point.