· Letter Mail Delivery Standards: Canada Post will introduce flexibilities to reflect today’s lower volumes. The average household receives just two letters per week, yet operations remain designed for far higher volumes. By adjusting standards so that non-urgent mail can move by ground instead of air, the corporation will save more than $20 million per year.
· Community Mailbox Conversions: The government is lifting the moratorium on community mailbox conversions. Currently, three-quarters of Canadians already receive mail through community, apartment, or rural mailboxes, while one-quarter still receive door-to-door delivery. Canada Post will be authorized to convert the remaining 4 million addresses to community mailboxes, generating close to $400 million in annual savings.
· Postal Network Modernization: The moratorium on rural post offices, in place since 1994, will also be lifted. The rural moratorium was imposed in 1994 and covers close to 4000 locations. It has not evolved in 30 years, but Canada has changed. This means that areas that used to be rural may now be suburban or even urban, but are still required to operate as rural post offices. Canada Post must return to the government with a plan to modernize and right-size its network.
‘Transformation’. More like getting gutted like what you see typically from failing companies run by fools and those seeking an easy way out.
Lots of companies also fail by sticking with tried and true methods and refuse to change in changing times.
You would think that after 6-7 six of straight losses they would have gotten an idea that their referenced “tried and true” methods didn’t work? Geez, did they, the management, c-suite and board just wait another quarter, got their pay cheques, and said “it wasn’t my problem/job”. Union employees have absolutely no say on how Canada Post is managed and operated on the big picture level - so who’s job IS it then? Why aren’t any of these people in management getting fired/let go?