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April 6, 2013
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Negotiations between Canada Post and its union have not been successful yet. The strike could resume May 22.
It would be good to take care of some tasks sooner if the tasks would be impacted by a resumed Canada Post strike.
Passport not close to expiry. No bank cards or credit cards close to expiry this time. One credit card was caught in the middle of last strike.
Cheques for one account running low and need to be re-ordered.
Gifts to recipients in smaller centres could be an issue. I found out last strike that small alternative couriers don't ship to many smaller places.
1:13 am
October 21, 2013
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These are good ideas to plan for.
Also, online shopping needs should be looked after early. Beware of deadlines for returning items.
7:30 am
January 25, 2024
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How they dare to ask for more money when they cannot handle simple task efficiently?!?
I have and use their app to see when new mail is arriving.
Since Friday 2025.06.27 (including Friday) message is - We're doing maintenance, blah, blah, until July 2.
What kind of 'maintenance' lasts 6 days??????? New app could be developed for that period of time...
8:43 am
October 27, 2013
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You must run a home business to want to know when new mail arrives? We barely check our community superbox more than once a week....or even less. We have to ask each other at the end of each week whether either of us happened to check the box this past week. We are surprised whenever we see something of value, especially time critical value, in there.
8:54 am
January 12, 2019
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It's just a matter of time ... CP will eventually Implode.
Canada needs to find another/better model for mail delivery. Some European countries have different mail delivery models that work quite well ... maybe we should be looking to them.
My Two Centavos,
- Dean
" Live Long, Healthy ... And Prosper! "
9:02 am
October 27, 2013
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There has to be the political will in Ottawa to allow CP to make the necessary changes. CP management may be somewhat inept in what they do but I think they would do much of what is necessary IF Ottawa would let them. Does Carney have the gonads to do that? That drama teacher we had certainly didn't.
10:28 am
September 11, 2013
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It's not just CP and the government involved, the union is the third player here.
Just got my first RRIF withdrawal cheque ever in the mail this week, came super quick, job well-done by all parties involved!
12:34 pm
January 12, 2019
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No Auto-Deposit ⬆️, Bill ?
it's much safer and faster.
And they don't go on strike. 
- Dean
" Live Long, Healthy ... And Prosper! "
3:47 pm
November 18, 2017
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Mail is a critical social responsibility. I wan the feds to supply the support it takes to keep it working. No cancellations of delivery days, no supermailboxes where they're not easily reachable by residents, no putting lettermail off while investing in deliveries - which have to compete with courier outfits.
My apartment building has gone from two containers of paper recycling to four, and they're jammed to the limit every time. All these delivery boxes are choking our recycling chain and consuming our forests.
I get mail every weekday, almost always much of it important, and don't want to lose it! What the heck, tax the cream-skimming delivery outfits!
RetirEd
5:42 pm
October 27, 2013
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It is a business service, not a social service. Allow it to be self-supporting.
6:59 pm
September 11, 2013
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Dean, I moved my RRIF from one broker where I had no linked bank account to the broker connected with my regular bank so next year's and on will be auto-deposit to my account.
Incidentally the original broker would not transfer it out until I had made my 2025 minimum withdrawal first, I guess they are required by tax law to make sure that happens before they transfer it out. Just an fyi for others contemplating transferring their RRIF.
8:28 pm
October 27, 2013
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Bill said
Incidentally the original broker would not transfer it out until I had made my 2025 minimum withdrawal first, I guess they are required by tax law to make sure that happens before they transfer it out. Just an fyi for others contemplating transferring their RRIF.
Yes, that is always the case. The withdrawal for the year is based on portfolio value on Jan 1 of that year and thus the FI is obligated to make that withdrawal before letting it go.
6:24 am
January 25, 2024
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AltaRed said
You must run a home business to want to know when new mail arrives?
No, I do run any business. Going to a community mailbox is one of excuses to do a short run as long as my legs are functioning.
If I do not go to mailbox it will become chocked with junk mail. At least somebody (Canada Post???) installed garbage box beside mailboxes so junk is immediately redelivered to proper addressee.
As for too many junk mail in a mailbox, one can always put a sticker 'no junk mail' or 'no unsolicited mail' in mailbox and such mail should not be deposited.
9:15 am
November 18, 2017
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AltaRed: Mail service is a constitutional obligation.
RetirEd
10:29 am
October 27, 2013
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RetirEd said
AltaRed: Mail service is a constitutional obligation.
There is no stipulation as to what form though (where and how often). Less than one third of CP mail delivery to ~18-19 million addresses remains door-to-door. Millions of addresses have been served by central post offices (and in more recent decades community super boxes in larger urban areas) for decades. People go to that central post office to access their mail via a P.O. Box in the building.
From the time I was born more than 75 years ago in semi-rural Alberta, our mail was always delivered to a central 'local town' post office from which we went to perhaps once a week for mail.
For example, today in the MD of Pincher Creek, AB with perhaps 7000 population overall, there is one central post office in the town of Pincher Creek (and area) with one postal code, another postal code for the postal outlet in a village (Cowley and area), and yet another for a hamlet (Lundbreck and area) in the MD. It has always been that way.
Example:
Mr and Mrs. J. Smith
P.O. Box xxxx
Pincher Creek, AB
T0K 1W0
Neighbouring MD of Crowsnest Pass consists of 3 towns and a hamlet and rural addresses. There are 3 central post offices, each with a postal code and all residents go to one of those central post offices to get their mail from a P.O. Box.
Many of you really have no idea what postal delivery is for the majority of Canadians. Central post offices and community super boxes in larger urban areas are one of the solutions. Time to suck it up!
8:51 am
December 12, 2009
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I don't agree Canada Post needs to be entirely self-sustaining, nor do I believe that is even possible anymore, given the accelerating decline in regular transactional mail.
That said, I do not believe there should be any door-to-door delivery to residential addresses in Canada. I would go so far as to eliminate suburban community mailboxes, too, and instead have mail pick up at contracted retail postal outlets, owned & operated post offices, and a new self-serve, ultra small format parcel pick up zones in established businesses. However, we should do that gradually and start with the elimination of door-to-door delivery and daily delivery of transactional mail. Let's deliver transactional mail to suburban community mailboxes three times per week. Expand parcel delivery to six, maybe seven, days per week.
Don't give me arguments of tired and aged 80+ and 90+ year old seniors. Rather, this is a business opportunity for the private sector to offer mail pick up and delivery services to seniors on a subscription service, or they can move into a condo, where they would arguably be better given their elderly years anyway.
Cheers,
Doug
9:56 am
October 27, 2013
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It can be self-sustaining if $1B of costs are cut out and/or perhaps the cost of postage goes up 50% or so in some coordinated balance to get to net zero. Purolator profits already subsidizes letter mail.
The complaints remind me of Nancy Ruth, Canadian senator, complaining about 'ice cold' Camembert cheese on her first/business class flights in 2015. The Canadian public roasted her for being so 'tone deaf'.
12:19 pm
April 6, 2013
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Tone deaf and dishonest.
Universal mail service is good idea but not a consitutional right in Canada. If one wishes to have home door-to-door delivery every business day, then one must be willing to pay for it, directly through mailing/shipping prices or indirectly through higher taxes.
Some things that were sustainable before, with higher letter mail volumes, aren't now. That Canada Post employee delivering letters door-to-door has not taken a pay cut since mail volumes have declined. With the stories I've read, they are finishing their routes early and still being paid for the whole day.
12:38 pm
April 27, 2017
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Simple solution: privatize. Deutsche Post is doing just fine. It was staged and generally smart how they did it. Most of the profit comes from international part of the business (like DHL).
Unions are also a problem in their domestic market so can work for Canada Post.
3:07 pm
January 12, 2019
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@Mordko ⬆️ ... I heard about that.
And they privatized the mail system in the UK in 2013, and it's also doing well . . .
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What are we waiting for, Canada⁉️
- Dean
" Live Long, Healthy ... And Prosper! "
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