This is the kind of government thinking that drives me nuts. You have a crown corporation that exists to do one service - deliver mail. Their volumes have dropped and are continuing to drop.
Instead of just downsizing the business (and reducing service) to reflect reality, they are trying to get into new businesses to justify their existence.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repor...rticle2402074/
Mike Holman
Money Smarts Blog Investing and Personal Finance
Are they going to deliver junk mail to each of our e-Inboxes?
any bills I recieve online come to one email address I have already, cost to tax payers for me to maintain this service = $0...They need to figure out how to make themselves profitable again be it negotiating labour costs, raising fees or cutting services if they wish to survive....I think I've only used 1 book of stamps in the 9 years I've been in my own place and I'm probably not alone in my age group or younger, almost anything i need to send to someone can be done quicker and easier online or via fax. 90% of the mail I recieve is unsolicited junk anyway.
Another dying business model because of the internet. (not saying it's a bad thing, just stating the fact)
Yup you can send it right to my junk mail that I never look at.Originally Posted by ddkay
They should do something useful that reflects the changes in their industry. IE set up electronic mailboxes for people to retrieve their internet purchases 24/7 like in Germany. Not very expensive and encourages people to use their service (which is superior to private UPS/Fedex scam artists imo) I love internet shopping but hate chasing down packages. How do people who run these organizations have no clue? They could also do weekend deliveries, seeing as Sunday is no longer sacrilege for anything else in Canada...
When everyone thinks the same they don't think at all
Two day a week delivery, cut 1/2 of their staff. Dying business in a dying industry. Only growth is coming from the package side.
Full pension at 55 or 25 years, whatever comes first? My head is so explodey right now.
I did an entire graduate degree with a postie. He sorted his mail and then walked his route for 2-3 hours in the morning and went to school the rest of the day. My landlord at the time was also a postie; same work schedule.
I know I've complained about these two guys and used the same anecdote but holy moley. The funny thing is that these two guys didn't know each other or have any connection...it isn't like they schemed to get these great schedules - I was lead to believe that once you get enough work years in, that's what's available.
They can also get rid of door to door delivery and install supermailboxes in older neighborhoods. I also agree with cutting the frequency of delivery.
I'm not sure why they view ePost as a failed model. I've been using it for years and love it; I'd prefer to get all my bills that way. If they improved the interface and spent some effort marketing ePost so the number of service providers participating in the program increased beyond the current pathetic number, it would be fine.
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