Stamp Price to Increase, Home Delivery To Be Axed
Cost of stamps will be boosted by end of March 2014.- photo 250News
Prince George, B.C .- Say goodbye to door to door delivery and hello to higher prices for stamps.
The changes are part of a five point plan announced this morning by Canada Post.
Canada Post says with more people opting for online mail to send and receive letters, and a shift to Canada Post delivering more parcels as a result of online purchases, the new plan will make Canada Post financially sustainable.
The one third of Canadian households which currently receive door to door delivery, will see that phased out over the next 5 years. Instead, community mail boxes will be put in place.
Canada Post says this one move will see the most significant cost savings , as labour costs are reduced. It says most of the job losses will come through attrition as much of the mail carrying labour force is coming close to retirement. “The staffing reduction will be managed in accordance with collective agreements including job security provisions” says Canada Post. The Union, CUPW, says it was blindsided by this news, having heard nothing about the plan until it was released earlier this morning.
The other major change is one that will see everyone paying more for postage.
As of March 31, 2014, a single stamp will cost $1.00. If you purchase stamps in a booklet or roll, the price goes down to .85 cents a stamp and if your company uses a postage meter, the cost is further reduced to .75 cents a stamp.
Other changes in the five point plan are:
1.Labour Costs: There will be job cuts. Canada Post says it will “bring the cost of labour in line with its competitors through attrition and collective p bargaining over time. Canada Post says it will also “take the necessary steps to permanently address the sustainability of its pension plan.
2. Streamlining Operations: improved computerized sorting equipment, consolidation of sorting operations, more fuel efficient vehicles for delivery.
3. Postal franchises: More franchise postal outlets in existing stores as the stores have better parking and longer hours.
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Hopefully Smithers and Telkwa outlets will be saved
This list continues to grow..
BlackBerry: 5000 + 4500 job losses
BMO: 1000 job losses
Heinz: 1000 job losses
Potash: 1000 job losses
Sears: 1000 job losses
Sun Media: 200 job losses
Encana: 1000 job losses
Kellogg: 500 job losses
Faurecia (Bradford): 550 job losses
AO Smith (Fergus): 260 job losses
Caterpillar: 450 job losses
Loblaws: 800 job losses
Canada Post: 6000-8000 job losses (over 5 years)
Let me know when the strong economy starts.
Oops, forgot one.
Pacific Newspaper Group: 200 when they sell their printing plant in Vancouver.
Why, are they special?
Smithers and Telkwa that is.
Soon to see an increase in TFW’s landing at our borders.
Because they are Smithers and Telkwa.
The US Mail is in a similar situation. But then Telkwa is not urban. It is one thing to walk the mail to the door and another thing to drive it around to roadside mailboxes.
The people who will really suffer are those who are handicapped and have great difficulty to go to group boxes.
Of course, anyone who has moved to a new subdivision in the last 15 to 20 years has not been getting deliveries to houses anyway. We must not forget that. So everyone else will now fall into line.
Can someone please post the names of the companies who have been increasing staff just so that they are given equal time.
who will my dog go berserk at now…?
Canada Post will need to supply paper recycling bins at all of these new mailbox sites. If they don’t people will simply throw their junk mail on the ground or even better, stick it in the outgoing mail box.
I know I won’t be taking all their junkmail home with me. :-)
With the move to electronic billing and payments I cannot remember the last time I wrote a cheque and dropped it in the mail to pay a bill.
I like the community mailbox that we have, can leave town for a day or two and the mail is at least somewhat safe- and even if someone does break in they are more than welcome to the A&W burger offer or other junk mail that appears most days. Bonus it even comes with a slot for unaddressed mail;)
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“Can someone please post the names of the companies who have been increasing staff just so that they are given equal time.” Prince George City Manager’s office: Communication and Citizen Engagement division
^5 lonesome sparrow …. LOL
My junk mail comes with the newspaper …..
Oh … except Shaw’s monthly useless letter asking us to go back to their lousy cable service …. what a waste of paper.
I cancelled the paper during Nicholson’s time as it seemed the only purpose of the black and white part was to protect the pretty colorful flyers inside. The black and white also helped for it’s only other use- help disguise what is sitting on the bottom of the birdcage;)
I didn’t realize they still delivered the mail door to door. I’ve had community mail boxes for as long as I can remember now. Even when I lived in the Lower Mainland.
“Of course, anyone who has moved to a new subdivision in the last 15 to 20 years has not been getting deliveries to houses anyway. We must not forget that. So everyone else will now fall into line”
Yup. I had a community mailbox in PG and I have one here in Ottawa. No biggie, it works.
Canada Post is obselete. Goodbye.
If it wasn’t for junk mail, Canada post would be even more in the red than it already is.
I get very little in terms of legitimate mail nowadays. It’s all electronic.
I see no reason to prop up Canada post when its service has largely become obsolete.
I agree with the suggestion above that there should be recycling bins beside the community mailboxes so we don’t have to take the junkmail home.
I can live without door to door service, don’t have it now…but the constant increase in stamps & parcels postage really burns.
I used to mail parcels of books to 3rd world village libraries – can’t do that now at $24+ for a 2kg parcel. It’s cheaper to buy books online from a company with free worldwide shipping, than to buy a used book in PG and mail it from here.
A small corner store operator in the lower mainland told me about 15 years ago they made $20,000 annually for the contract to have a postal outlet. Without it they didn’t know if they’d be able to stay in business.
It’s not junk mail. It’s direct advertising literature. Get with the program, eh.
I can live without door to door service, don’t have it now…but the constant increase in stamps & parcels postage really burns.
I used to mail parcels of books to 3rd world village libraries – can’t do that now at $24+ for a 2kg parcel. It’s cheaper to buy books online from a company with free worldwide shipping, than to buy a used book in PG and mail it from here.
A small corner store operator in the lower mainland told me about 15 years ago they made $20,000 annually for the contract to have a postal outlet. Without it they didn’t know if they’d be able to stay in business.
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