Posted on 09/26/2025 9:03:49 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Postal workers in Canada have gone on strike after the government warned of an “existential crisis” and ordered sweeping changes to the national service – including an end to door-to-door delivery within the decade.
The union representing Canada Post employees described the proposed changes as “an attack” on its workers who have struggled to compete with a surge in private courier services.
The strike, announced by the union late on Thursday, marks the second time in the last 12 months that the country’s postal services have ground to a halt. Mail and parcels will not be processed or delivered for the duration of the strike and no new items will be accepted.
“Canada Post’s operations will shut down during a national strike, affecting millions of Canadians and businesses across the country,” the mail service said.
Joël Lightbound, the public works minister, said Canada Post has become “effectively insolvent”, even after lending the postal service C$1bn, adding that repeated financial bailouts were not a long-term solution for an organization that has lost more than $4bn since 2018. In its most recent quarter, Canada Post recorded its highest-ever quarterly loss of $407m.
“It provides an essential service to Canadians, and in particular to rural, remote and Indigenous communities, and Canadians are rightfully attached to it and want it saved,” said Lightbound, adding that the postal service “is now facing an existential crisis”.
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Evidently they don’t have federal judges to override the government up there eh?
The usual timetable for postal strikes in Canada is for the government to wait 2-3 weeks to see if collective bargaining brings a solution, then force the matter to arbitration and make the workers end their strike. The postal workers’ union are probably out of luck trying to get any higher wages in the current economic climate, and the post office revenues are always in decline as more people turn to courier services. The article makes it sound as though the strike is about a proposed end to home delivery, but that issue just surfaced after the workers had already reached a strike deadline, so it is more of a game changer than a cause for the strike. I live in a fairly small place and we already don’t have home delivery, we go to a central post office to pick up our mail. I guess everyone will be doing that in Canada by 2030. There is a labor relations board in Canada so this won’t get in front of courts of law at any point, the board has a mandate to force compulsory arbitration in sectors that are between vital services (like police) and everyday unions (like factory workers whose strikes are not supervised by the board at all). The post office is a “crown corporation” meaning it is part of the government but run by an appointed board of directors, not by politicians. Most of the postal workers probably vote for the NDP not the governing Liberals. So the NDP is likely to make retaining home delivery of mail a policy for the next election whenever that may be, and it could be as soon as next year since Carney only governs by the pleasure of at least one opposition party.
This is a continuation of the strike that was quashed by a bill passed by the trudeau government before the ludicrous “election”, and the order ran out with NO progress between the parties.
The canadian government has NEVER IN MY LIFETIME bargained in “good faith” with ANY of its employees, private or public.
I was a fedgov employee several times, and got absolutely screwed over, stolen from, and unfairly treated EVERY time. That’s why I stopped even applying for positions there.
I will only mention in passing the regional origins bias that I experienced.
Of course nobody NEEDS mail...
But I beg of you,
Just walk away...
Approximately half of federal postal employees will be laid off.
Never fear...
The government of Denmark has decided to vigorously compete against the non-government parcel and package delivery business.
Most of the terminated postal employees will be hired back to work in the now expanding government parcel and package delivery business.
I saw a video on the current state of things in Canada. It’s bad, very bad.
Almost all the same problems we have here but multiple times worse:
Home/land ownership, unaffordable
Food, expensive
Immigration, about 1/4 of Canada now foreign born (!)
Jobs , hard to find
Rent is now so bad many women are reportedly trading sex for it in good old Canada: (this may not be the same video I saw, there are many)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-pTwBd548I
So what do they expect the people to do to get their mail?
Flood the local PO while it’s open, hoping to be able to pick it up themselves?
If they’re going to cut services, they should cut the rates as well.
When I made the mistake of residential rentals, I was propositioned twice!
(Once by a 16 year-old GF of a Marijuana dealer!)
It’s only getting worse in Canada.
RRSP Death Tax EXPOSED | $660,000 CRA Bill Leaves Canadians With Nothing
https://youtube.com/watch?v=c0OukNP1vZ8&si=QYbr_mVtzEKQ8UEL
Just getting this straight.
You were renting out a property and was approached for favors by 2 people for free rent for FWB?
In Canada?
“Flood the local PO while it’s open, hoping to be able to pick it up themselves?”
In ten years that could be happening here as well.
I have used a private personal mail box for decades—not a big deal once it becomes part of your routine.
What will fill the landfills with all the junkmail stopped?
It’s not mail, it’s just junkmail....junkmail delivery.
Strike , well mail delivery has stopped
“ So what do they expect the people to do to get their mail?”
In many locations, have a mailbox that covers 15 or so homes. No one would even have to walk one block. The Mail carrier can put the mail in by opening the back and sliding the mail into individual slots. The slots are opened in the front with a key for for each house . I had this when I lived in a townhouse. I used to walk near single-family homes and the carrier had to walk up about 20 steep steps for each home along my walking route.
Almost everything that comes by USPS is junk mail anyway. That annoyance needs to be addressed by Congress. Junk mail senders must be paying a very low rate.
I have heard that mail delivery in Canada is really bad. Poor service, packages lost or damaged, etc. My own experience bears that out.
Since, I believe, there is no constitutional mandate in Canada for governmental mail delivery (as in the USA), maybe scrapping the whole system is what that country needs.
I’d love to see some of their provinces (other than Quebec and Ontario) become US states!
A single political donation in the US leads to a literal avalanche of junk mail, same goes for just about any charity.
Congress will never do anything about it.
My parents had a big mailbox at the end of their street.
Had the mail for the whole street.
They lived on the corner, so it was right next to them.
Not Canada...
The operative term is door-to-door. Maybe you’ve seen those apartment style mailboxes popping up in suburbs, servicing 10-20 homes per box. You’ll have to walk across the street, or down a few houses.
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