Canada Post strike

[odjickfan]

This is why I very seldom do trades outside of Canada. No cheap option unless you do plain white envelope.

I am still doing trades outside Canada, but only low-end in PWEs. Always fun to move some small cards :)

[RGM81]

Postal service resumes tomorrow

[theboxbreaker96]

Germany doesn't have to deliver that mail over a great distance and to remote communities.

Correct. Delivering to low populated rural communities isn't profitable infact it brings heavy losses. The USPS has the same issue. Im a mail carrier for USPS

[RGM81]

Correct. Delivering to low populated rural communities isn't profitable infact it brings heavy losses. The USPS has the same issue. Im a mail carrier for USPS

This is what so many of the "shut down Canada Post" people utterly fail to realize. FedEx is not going to deliver your Christmas card to your weird uncle in remote northern BC for $1.20. Canada Post will. They are the only service provider with the scope and scale to do this because they are an entity that serves Canadians, not the bottom line.

[doniceage]

This is what so many of the "shut down Canada Post" people utterly fail to realize. FedEx is not going to deliver your Christmas card to your weird uncle in remote northern BC for $1.20. Canada Post will. They are the only service provider with the scope and scale to do this because they are an entity that serves Canadians, not the bottom line.

It is one of those services that you will realize when it is no longer exists and the charges are increased tenfold. Of course snail mail has been going down for years. I think I read somewhere that as many Digital e-mails and notification are sent in one day that the USPS gets in a whole year (just take that in LOL). I never understand why the mail was slowing down as the need to make the system more efficient and in order to do that they will downsize the sorting hubs which will hurt the many members of the Postal Union if it does not take as many workers if some are done away with. Any Union for the postal workers will balk but who knows what the results will be. The below is a good read for the U.S. members as I wondered why some mail was sent out of state to be sorted which made no sense logistically or in the speed of delivery but guess it is the bottom line of keeping the cost down. I assume those north of the border will have to look into this if they plan on trying to keep the costs down.

https://labornotes.org/2024/10/conso...postal-service

Don