CUPW has announced an immediate strike, and postal workers are currently walking off the job.
The minister of public works, Joel Lightbound, has announced his intentions to implement all of the recommedations laid out in the Kaplan report, including permanently ending door-to-door delivery and the requirement to deliver mail 5 days a week.
Not sure how he expected labour to respond to 1/3 of the workforce being made redundant.
Why do I need to “do better,” when I have an opinion? You may not agree, and I respect that. A good debate here is how we can progress as a society when it comes to issues like this. Hurling insults at each other doesn’t do that. I understand you may be personally affected by this, like I mean no disrespect or it’s not like I lack compassion for that, I have compassion. But I’m also a realist, we cannot just endlessly burn cash like this on these crown corps because people can’t adjust to new realities. That’s not a so called rich person perspective either, it’s again, a realist one.
Capital is not endless, we do not want to turn into the United States, where we endlessly face government funding shutdowns and unfathomable defecit spending because we shred money like they do. It’s important we run our assets efficiently, and when you are burning billions a year on mainly delivering junk mail to people, it’s kind of mind boggling. That’s not zero sum, it’s common sense. Bills only come (usually) but once a month, if you need to correspond with someone, why does that need to be delivered every day, individually, with hand to hand service?
I’m not for the complete elimination of snail mail either, it still needs to exist. They’ve laid out a path for it to exist, but it’s going to necessarily look a lot different than we are used to it looking. It’s the logical path forward.