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[–] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 66 points 3 months ago (32 children)

Good. Eliminating all door to door deliveries is not the answer and whoever came up with that rationale needs to removed immediately.

And again, for the people in the back: Canada post is a service. It doesn’t make money. It costs money. Same way public healthcare does.

Why are they trying to spin it as a business that needs to generate profit or undertake cost cutting measures to exist and continue providing services that are still being widely used?

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago (14 children)

Because the service you mention is paid for with postage, not taxes. Their shortfall was 841 million last year. Who is supposed to pay for that?
I have direct to door delivery right now. Every day I get flyers for assholes that want to buy my house for pennies on the dollar, and actual mail maybe twice a week.
Why are we paying for delivery the other 3 days?
The simple reality is that daily direct to door delivery isn't necessary any more, and if I had to go for a 5 minute walk to collect my mail 3 times a week, I'd be fine with that.

[–] Feyr@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

One thing the USPS does well is sending me an email every morning with a picture of every mail piece that's going to be delivered that day. Then I can decide if it's worth checking the mailbox

I can go weeks without checking it

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca -2 points 3 months ago

I go weeks without checking mine and I don't have that feature. Nothing is really time sensitive.

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