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Slapshot1

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Well, Harper and his cronies are putting more people out of work today by phasing in their 5 year plan to cut out door to door mail delivery. I would assume that the jobs being cut will be the people close to retirement and will be offered early retirement packages. Do you like the idea?
 

manni

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They need to hire security to watch over the super-mailboxes. Tons of them being broken into and mail being stolen.
or design a better, surdier mailbox if they're too cheap to hire security.
 

take8easy

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As much as I would hate to see anyone losing her/his job, I think this is just sign of time. We lived in a house for 12 years (in Surrey, mind you) and never had it broken into. But that is not suggesting that all the mail boxes are safe.

Many companies have cut jobs because of new technology. Computers nowadays do so much work. People are traveling less because many meetings are held online. I have a friend in hotel business and he knows it first hand.

As much as I am against the Harper govt for the new bill, I think Canada post had to do what it had to do. Yes, the money saved should be spend on sturdier mail boxes.
From what I understand that with a doctor's note, those who are unable to walk etc. would be able to get the mail delivered to the door.

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Slapshot1

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Not much of an issue out this way, other than the once a year Costco cheque, and maybe the odd insurance reimbursement for massages (therapeutic ones lol), I only get bills. If thieves want them, they can have them (and pay them too). Living outside of the city, I've had to stop at one of those community boxes which I have to supply the lock for, but it's not a big deal, I drive right past them at least twice a day.
As far as the job losses are concerned, the ones losing their jobs had better go in for training for something, as I've never seen a better paying unskilled career anywhere.
 

tadolder

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The mail boxes are being upgraded, it was announced a yr ago when they first said they were phasing out home delivery. The mail boxes are broken into all over the place, not just rough areas.
 

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with less and less snail mail these days, Canada Post has to do something to remain viable... because the alternative to Community Mail Boxes is keeping all the mail at the local postal installation and giving everyone a PO box (which I don't think would be financially sound). how resistant do you think people will be to that?

and the jobs being affected at the door to door delivery people, if they have enough seniority, they will likely bump someone out of somewhere else ... it'll be the new hires that get the bum rush of this.

full disclosure, I work for Canada Post, and I'd like to remain working for them for the next 20-30 years. (and what PeaceGuy said)
 

westwoody

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That would require walking up to the front door of multiple residences
My mailbox today had a Shaw blurb and home insurance blurb. Three days a week there is nothing.
A thief might have to hit dozens of homes before getting anything worthwhile.
If you think Canada Post is bad some of the big courier companies are infinitely worse.
DHL is super fast, UPS is bad, FedEX is fucking horrible. If you get anything shipped from overseas they all rob you for "brokerage" fees. FedEx charged 20% brokerage on billet parts from Europe, on top of the duty and PST+GST.
 

leoghaire

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What is intended is to mostly do this by attrition; as people retire, die, quit (or are drugged and dragged off to the rendering plant by Stephen's men in black) they will just not fill the positions. Very few will actually wind up unemployed by this, just a bunch of high paid union jobs disappearing into the sunset like they should have done when the milk men went the way of the passenger pigeon. Not that I'm against high paid union jobs but with the volume of snail mail dropping year after year there does need to be a reasonable amount of work to be done in order to justify paying someone to show up.
that is exactly what is going to happen. There will be very few lay-offs. Many people would have started looking for a new job or working on a back up plan when they first heard about it. It wasn't kept secret.
Furthermore, I have no issues with this at all. I have never in my memory had door to door mail delivery. Earliest memory is the big green box that we had to supply our own lock before getting the big grey community mail boxes. 40+ years and don't recall anyone ever breaking in to our mail box. had it knocked over a couple times, usually back upright the next day. Nothing send by snail mail is so urgent that it can't wait a couple of days. If it's important they will call or e-mail.
 
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