Honestly??? Canada Post is soooo slow, FedEX can deliver way faster and cheaper. Takes almost two weeks to send letter to Van and just as long if Special Delivery ect.. And we don’t get daily mail anymore.

I don’t mind Canada Post; I use them for sending parcels periodically and of course, the occasional letter.

But I wonder why CUPW is approaching city council? Shouldn’t they be approaching the alleged 63% and asking them if they’re willing to pay for home delivery? That’s what they should be doing; if you want personalized mail delivery you should be given the opportunity to pay for it yourself and get it.

Canada Post in the banking business….where do I sign up?? Can’t wait.

Personally, I would prefer to see the door to door mail delivery continue. However, if they wanted to cut it back to three days a week, to save costs, that would be fine with me!

Didn’t our postal rate jump 20% at the beginning of the month. Shouldn’t that be enough to cover the rising cost of labor.

Canada Post used to offer banking services through the Post Office Savings Bank.

That was put in place originally to serve communities too small to attract a branch of one of the major banks. It was discontinued quite a number of years ago. Due mainly to lack of use, I believe.

The CUPW should look very closely at their proposal to get the Post Office re-involved in offering banking services.

I believe that they, like most people, are awed by the dollar figures the major banks report as their profits, but fail to recognise that, taken as a percentage of the volume of business they do, bank profits, as well as many, probably most, other business profits, are actually FALLING.

This is one of the main reasons for ongoing business consolidation. Already a great number of Credit Unions throughout BC have merged with one another. But by merging they’re only staving off their eventual demise, not increasing their profits relative to the increased volume of their business.

It won’t be long before the big banks will be back before the government asking again to be allowed to merge with one another.

I have lived in a neighborhood with a box down the road for the last 16 years. It is a fine way to get mail. It works and its cheaper than a mail worker walking around to every house. On my street there are 2 guys in wheel chairs and over the years we’ve had numerous seniors. They all seem to get their mail. One day there may not be a mail service. Thank the electronic replacements for that.

Posted by: PGguy1234 on April 28 2014 8:36 AM
I have lived in a neighborhood with a box down the road for the last 16 years. It is a fine way to get mail.

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I’ve never had mail delivered to any house I’ve ever lived in. When I was a kid we had a “post office” which was run out of a house down the street where we picked up our mail. When the lady who ran the place retired we started with the community boxes. That was probably 40 years ago.

I used to live in a house in the lower mainland and even then we had community boxes.

FedEx only serves markets it can profit in.

The Postal service is not loosing money,they just want more profit.I would like to see house delivery continue in order to keep people employed.If they want to cut jobs maybe they should start at the top.

I recollect the sky definitely did not fall when they phased out home delivery of milk. But ah, that’s different. Right? How will seniors ever get their milk without hardship?

I’m with Harbinger 100%.

***Attention Postal Workers. Door to door service is no longer relevant. Sorry.***

Posted by: oldman1 on April 28 2014 9:47 AM
The Postal service is not loosing money,they just want more profit.I would like to see house delivery continue in order to keep people employed.If they want to cut jobs maybe they should start at the top.

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Keeping people employed is all fine and dandy so long as the people who are getting the service are the ones who pay for that service. Are you willing to pay $100 a month out of your pocket to keep the letter carriers employed?

$100 a month? Obviously some people can’t read. They had profits and dividends paid to government every year of the last 18 save for one year with a worker strike. So where does this $100 a month BS come from?

Delivery service is part and parcel of running a national postal service and it should continue. Those that oppose Canada Post in its existing form are actually for privatization of the service, which then puts in jeopardy the service many rural and isolated communities still count on for access to the outside world.

If Canada Post feels they can profit from selling pre paid debit cards and what not then I say give them a chance to continue making profits and serving all Canadians.

City council should support Canada Post because otherwise who is going to pay for changes to the system… not Canada Post, but rather the property tax payer paying the $1000 for the change over in traffic issues for these new community boxes.

Posted by: Eagleone on April 28 2014 1:22 PM
$100 a month? Obviously some people can’t read. They had profits and dividends paid to government every year of the last 18 save for one year with a worker strike. So where does this $100 a month BS come from?

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I made the number up obviously. I have no idea how much they will need to be charging those who wish to get their mail hand delivered.

I can read quite well thank you very much. And I also know better then to believe any figures thrown out by a group pf people who are solely concerned with their own well-being. It tends to throw some bias into their argument.

I’m surprised you’re not blaming Israel for the state of the post office. How unlike you.

I’ll buy the post office. I’ll buy Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto. Every one else can buy the remainder. Post office? A business or a service? You can’t have both. You pay with postage or you pay through yer taxes. Make a decision.

Bills received and paid for over the net. Communication with family and friend via email and social media. That about leaves bulk mail better known as junk and that is still delivered but now the mailbox is on the corner and not nailed to the side of the house.
If your are still considering a run for council eagleone you should be posting under your real name on what the city’s response should be on this issue. This also holds true for your comment on the Ranch Inn the other day and especially on the floride issue which will be on the ballot this fall.

Ben/Elaine posted guidelines for potential candidates which you are clearly not following. In case you want to review

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Axman if we were to get into the privatization debate, which is where this is designed to go to… then your comment would have legs.

Also Axman writes, “I also know better then to believe any figures thrown out by a group pf people who are solely concerned with their own well-being.”

LOL something about the pot calling the kettle black….

ewitt… not yet committed to that. For all I know a great candidate may come along that I could vote for? I say I may run, because I don’t want to throw away another vote and I think we have 70% of the population that just wants an option where they know what they are getting.

If I decide to run, then that is when the crazies will come out of the wood work… the likes of lonesomesparrow and axman and their ilk. That and I don’t have $80,000 to commit to a campaign, so if I do decide to run then it will likely be a short insurgency like campaign without any donations and a lot of foot work and direct talk. Just an option on the ballot that could get elected if 5000 have had enough of the regular non options they have to choose from.

I do however have a potential platform sketched out, that I update from time to time just in case. I would love the opportunity to see some of these ideas at least debated, so regardless I will likely be throwing these ideas out for consideration prior to the election.

I read a lot and I am guilty of absorbing other peoples ideas as my own… so I think I at least have an awareness of the issues, which is more than can be said for the majority of our current council.

“If I decide to run, then that is when the crazies will come out of the wood work… the likes of lonesomesparrow and axman and their ilk. “

Dude, when it comes to “crazies” you’re at the top of the class.

The Canadian postal service has been mostly relegated to distribution of junk mail.

I do not need door to door service for that.

So that will be… what? At least 30 letter carrier workers out of jobs? Let’s see, at $40,000 x 30 positions = $1,200,000 per year not going into our local economy. If half of those workers need to relocate to other places or cities to find work, that’s 15 more workers and their families leaving Prince George. Hmm… and everyone wonders why Prince George continues to stagnate?

Most all the Natural Gas meter readers are gone now as well. Lots more worker salaries not contributing to the local economy, lots more families moving out of PG. Oh well….

After re -reading sober I said HUH ? as well. Must not drink and comment , must not drink and comment. :) If they quit delivery mail and I don’t get bills anymore does that mean I don’t have to pay them ? I am old school . I like the paper mail , and newspapers, bring back 1970. I liked it much better then :)

Do not call it junk mail. It should be referred to as “direct advertising literature”. Got that?

I would also think that Canada Post is also being paid well for delivering advertising literature.

oldman1…anything with postage that enters the post office doors has to be delivered. Wouldn’t want the PO to censor or discriminate when it comes to delivering your mail would ya? BTW. Those Dick Harris mailings? Well, they are not “junk mail”. Full postage on them is paid like a first class letter from Grandma to you from D.H.’s office. It’s in his MP budget. Just so ya know.