Canada Post reports $315 million loss as workers’ strike hits one week

[@rodsvintagesxschannel.3095]

Release our parcels to other carriers...we paid for services not rendered.

[@maxsavage3998]

Contact management they CEOS have destroyed the post office

[@fabienneisore7831]

And they worked for salaries unpaid and no contract for over a year.

[@r.o.o.k.]

​@@fabienneisore7831Your point? What does that have to do with them keeping packages that consumers payed them to deliver.

[@allin4once]

"Unpaid salaries", what are u talking about??? No one was nor paid. Quit your disinformation BS.​@fabienneisore7831

[@Ladybug83me]

Something needs to change with this company so this can't happen again. It's not fair to everyone that the mail they paid for is being held . Not right .

[@amyle3950]

Canadians deserve better than what Canada Post is offering. If you can’t serve the public with integrity and efficiency, perhaps it’s time to reconsider your role. We depend on reliable delivery of our mail and parcels, not to be held hostage to labor disputes. Using the busiest season of the year as leverage is not just unfair-it’s deeply unethical. As a small business owner, I would never take a customer’s money if I knew I couldn’t deliver what they paid for. Yet, here we are: you’ve taken our money, our parcels, and our trust, using them as bargaining chips.Forcing people to wait indefinitely for your ongoing negotiations is simply not efficient. Life doesn’t pause, and neither can our businesses or the need to send mail. This is not the way to earn the respect of the people you serve. We as your customers are disappointed, not just with Canada Post but with the unions too. It’s time to legislate workers back to work or offering us a alternative service during the disruption. We deserve better. Do better.

[@johnstephenson2428]

I absolutely agree with you.

[@InsignificantSpeckOfDust]

The quick cut scene to a delivery guy handing the lady a parcel is completely staged....never in my entire life has a Canada Post employee ever handed me a parcel at my door. GTFOH.

[@rayray8687]

And there just happened to be a camera person there! That was comical.

[@InsignificantSpeckOfDust]

@@rayray8687 Right?

[@maxsavage3998]

Get out more bud

[@johntitorii6676]

They just put a paper in mail box that says attempted delivery lol , serious attitude among them

[@TheSilverlady1980]

Services were already paid…this is holding mail and parcels for ransom. Find another carrier that appreciates their job and their clients.

[@jumbome7420]

No that’s not what it is

[@kamranscent]

​@@jumbome7420look at this keyboard warrior...

[@1Freakzilla]

24 vice presidents … employees being sent on social justice paid trips . Terrible business model not capitalizing on postal banking , weekend delivery … then you ask for 30 dollar an hour wages ? For sorting mail and delivering admail? Of course you are going to fail.

[@maxsavage3998]

30? 3/4 making 22 to 26. And since you think delivering is so easy why dont you try it for a month. Cpc has the highest turnover and injury rate..so cmon down be trained slave

[@fabienneisore7831]

Last I check it's not a coop. Employees don't direct management.

[@1Freakzilla]

@@maxsavage3998 I carried for 15 years. Worked on both sides of the fence , corporate , and 15 as a carrier. With the exception of new employees most people are in the high twenties. I’ve carried longer and in harsher climate then you have ever done , I think you need to watch the assumptions who you are talking to.

[@barrroger1162]

Today I had to lay off 14 people and next week I’ll probably file for bankruptcy but nobody cares anyways

[@fabienneisore7831]

Get a business continuity plan.

[@jumbome7420]

lol cool story but you definitely don’t own a business. Good try though

[@Ladybug83me]

The company needs to change things so this cannot happen again. It's not fair that the mail we paid for is sitting there. Not right. Passports too that we need . Not right. If they want higher wages then Canada needs to raise the minimum wage for everyone. This job does not require any special education or qualifications yet they make above what the majority of people earn.

[@johnstephenson2428]

It's gonna be interesting when Canada Post workers realize they've striked themselves out of a job.

[@rottenrobbie7]

Canada Post Corporation had a year to put a serious offer on the table, the strike and lockout could have been avoided and can be ended by them at any time. They haven't at time of writing. Instead they hope to let public inconvenience and media fed outrage be the story that gives them the best chance at union busting with binding arbitration that keep Canadian wages low. For the less Holmsian in the "con" camp, that's *your* wages. The minister himself scolded the executive at Canada Post for inflexibility in the evolution of the company. Translation: wringing hands over decreasing mail volumes with no eye to expand services to compensate, like postal banking. The gov't just snapped out nearly 3 billion to another corporation and the public didn't know anything about it until it was all over. We can fund what our own gov't acknowledges as a public service never intended to be run for profit. Canadian postal workers stood in the breach for Canadians during Covid as essential workers when shopping at stores was difficult to impossible. They delivered, and at that time laid down their rights to collective bargaining to help their fellow Canadians weather the crisis, some laying down their lives for the effort. They've been without a renewed contract for years and nothing to combat the cost of living. These workers are Canadians, many of whom don't make enough to cover living expenses, some forced to purchase their own vehicles for delivery, having no company vehicle provided. Canadian workers owe it to nobody to live paycheck to paycheck or worse. They deserve our support.

[@hubertkaminski1812]

Just lay the all off, hire new workers. Plenty of people in Canada would love to have an easy job with all the benefits like they do. If they don't feel like working go live on the street. Lazy asses.

[@paul-jp1rb]

We should file for a class action lawsuit, some of us are awaiting important documents in the mail for our careera

[@richardkeller4892]

Maybe cut management instead of making cuts to mail carriers that already had more than a 15% cut. Last time management was scolded by arbitrators, and management lied about not delivering all parcels before Christmas and these lies lost them business.

[@ADobbin1]

Perhaps if they didn't go on strike every 4 years and didn't keep losing packages they would have more people paying them to ship.

[@fabienneisore7831]

Perhaps if their contract was renewed in a timely manner they would not need to go on strike?

[@BlintVidz]

They charge too much for parcels...

[@maxsavage3998]

You aint bright bud

[@fabienneisore7831]

Ask FedEx and Pyro their rates.

[@erikreitav5841]

No they don’t! Canada post parcel rates are significantly cheaper then Purolator or fedex!

[@horsehaircreationsbykaren]

Really? They are the cheapest by far. Small parcel that can letter mail anywhere in Canada, $3. Any courier, minimum $68, find me cheaper, I dare ya!

[@manywordsyvr]

They're the cheapest coast to coast. Facts.

[@WhiskerSupremacy]

Purple hair... Oh now I know what's up...

[@trevorgwelch7412]

I've been getting the wrong mail for 8 years . Post office said " Nothing they can do about it "

[@Paaacss]

Unfortunately we deliver by address. The sender is the one who is messing this up, not the post office.

[@Ladybug83me]

Same . I've even wrote on it wrong address yet keep getting the exact same persons mail

[@bennyblunto973]

Canada post literally doesn’t knock my door. They just leave a “sorry we missed you” sticker and drive off even though I’m waiting all day by the door….

[@jumbome7420]

lol when you literally strike yourself out of a job

[@SamoelPrince]

Canada post service is expensive compared to other countries

[@NinjaRunningWild]

Socialism for you.

[@666dynomax]

Usps is a real postal service. Cheap also

[@SamoelPrince]

@666dynomax true, however there is nothing in Canada cheap, not just post service.. But USPS is subsidized by the US government..

[@fabienneisore7831]

Canada is not other countries. Still cheaper that private companies.

[@SamoelPrince]

@@fabienneisore7831 it is almost the same price with private companies..

[@Paaacss]

You guys got some random old dude to speak who happens to have a masters in economics from 1974. Come on. This dude doesn't even understand. "It's a parcel company now, not a lettermail company." It's a service that is self funded by profits. Since 2018, CPC is permitted to re invest all profits into it's own service rather than giving it back to the government. CPC is mandated to deliver lettermail. They aren't FedEx or another private courier who was designed to be profitable. It's a service people. We don't audit the police or transit system. Also, your taxes don't pay for Canada Post so don't worry.

[@shauncameron8390]

But the police is needed no matter what. And transit is a city thing.

[@Paaacss]

True but what about those rural areas that all the small for profit private companies won't go to. CPC goes to them. Also, you'd be surprised by how much lettermail is actually sent. Just because it's down, does not mean it's obsolete. Businesses use lettermail in mass. The only thing that's really down is bills and personal letters that people used to send to eachother. That being said, there's still a ton of christmas cards. Also, Santa letters, which we do for free, is still huuuuge lol

[@jackjackthompson5771]

@@Paaacssa huge amount is junk mail, because they charge for it. It’s artificial demand. Self licking ice cream cone. Service is poor, customer service is ridiculous, and they use monopoly or captive clients to pay inflated benefits to themselves. These people could care less about anything except retirement…useless

[@Ladybug83me]

Many seniors still use lettermail such as my mother .

[@UnstoppableLuck]

I like it, not one piece of cluttery advertisement flyer dropped in my mail box. Down with Canada Post.

[@califoo]

You can easily stop junk mail by putting a red dot on your mailbox.

[@fabienneisore7831]

They only deliver it😂

[@Jackie-o3b]

They are not worth the cost to Canadians

[@makavelie85]

Force them to go back to work 🤬

[@SamoelPrince]

Force? They can't do that

[@Grace-zb3px]

Can I ask why?

[@makavelie85]

They’re holding people hostage who need their mails, passports, etc., etc.

[@LaSenzas]

So your all for a company who only cries poor at negotiation time? Who drags its heels hoping the government will step in and tell them to get back to work like they always have.? Who cries a loss but the CEO is fine with accepting his over 400,000 salary and gives everyone above the workers on strike a yearly bonus? A company that openly admits to investing back into the company by building a sorting plant. Then puts the cart before the horse and buys a fleet of EV’s that have sat in a parking lot for a year because they still need to put in charging stations… CP management lies and is running the postal service into the ground to line their own pockets and your mad at the people on strike? This is not about money to the workers. It’s also about health and safety, protecting pensions and benefits, equal wages for new employees and how CP wants them to do their job. Cp is not only running the company into the ground they are trying to do the same to their employees. There is more to it than what you see on the news.

[@Wolverine1987]

@SamoelPrince yes, the government can

[@curtismuise3300]

I'm with Canada Post. The employees should be happy they still have a job.

[@SamoelPrince]

@@curtismuise3300 bwahaha bwahaha

[@LaSenzas]

Yea because they are so happy having to make the decision to strike before Christmas with no money, no benefits and the high cost of living. How about you educate yourself and not go by what you see on 2-3 min segments on the news. 🤦‍♀️

[@earleagleson5912]

You must be in management in Canada Post.

[@deanfournel7532]

Guess what, Canadians don't want to keep paying for expensive federal workers in a failing business. Everything paid for by taxes must be audited and if it's found to be failing, it's time for a change and cut it loose.

[@danielbouchard6106]

We understand but why always during the holidays!! Like always use us as weapons! My biz is suffering

[@Paaacss]

Sorry..It's just how the deadline works. Our contract ended Feb 2023...We must have negotiations for 20 months before a work disruption can occur. The first legal day was like Nov. 4th. It's just how it goes. I just wish CPC would give us a decent wage so people can work one job lol.

[@camd5348]

Use the competition.

[@h2oboater]

They are going to put themselves out of business anyway . Most companies that switch to couriers and see how much more efficient it is to ship , will not return to Canada Post. Canada Post is headed down the same road as Cooperage . ☹️☹️

[@ADobbin1]

Because it's cold. Strikers are less enthusiastic because of the cold, and more desperate for a full pay check coming up to Christmas so are more likely to cave faster. Auto industry is the same.

[@marcelcharette265]

@@Paaacss I think you need a raise. I'd like to raise my boot to your behind ya lazy varmint. LOL Just kidding. No, you guys need to make a lot more than $22/h. I'd say at least in the $25-30 range. I don't mind paying a little more for the few packages I send. Good luck, I hope this turns out well for you. Local 721 Ironworkers and Local 183 Laborer's are behind you I'm sure.

[@dougssoldiers1929]

The vampiric Postal Union has sucked almost 4 BILLION dollars out of Canada Post in losses since 2018. Time for massive layoffs, not signing bonuses and pay increases.

[@beefweiner]

the loss should impact negotiations. if you do a bad job you should not get a raise.

[@kathleenmartin1079]

Agreed but it's not the workers who are doing a bad job, it's management making bad investments and giving themselves $450,000 salary plus bonuses even though they are "losing money"

[@toyler6513]

Boycott CP

[@janchangchou777]

The operation for courier as Canada Post ( government delivery organization ), basically involve 3 parts , the superior is Civic/customer , then the lower parties,Company and Worker union . If the strike as 2018 , rotation strike , the civic / customer affection were small , so we didn’t care the strike . But the strike in this time , these two lower parties compete for own gain profit to hurt and sacrifice the superior part, civic/customer . So we must fire the Canada Post Company and worker union . All customers and civics who have parcels are processing in the facility of Canada post make “class action” to lawsuit Canada Post for missing delivery promise

[@Ladybug83me]

Some thing need to change with the company. It's not fair to people that their mail is being held. Not right. They need to change it so this cannot happen

[@frp704]

To All Media Organization in Canada . . . . Please ask Canada Post Management The Following 1) Whose Fault is it if Sales Volumes are down for the last few years. 2) Why did Management give themselves Bonuses and Incentives this year if they are are making losses 3) Did they offer Bonuses and Incentives to Union Members 4) Do they say Investments in a new state of the art mail processing plant is part of the loss 5) Do they say that part of the loss is also because they purchased new EV Delivery Van's which are not being used ? Why were they purchased. 6) Is the Management negotiating for 1 year with the Union and allowed the strike to happen in the peak period ? 7) Who is responsible for the mismanagement and incompetency of running the corporation that keep loosing profit year after year ? I Urge the All The Canadian Media to push Canada Post Spokesperson to answer these questions.

[@CanadianFitted]

They make that much money a week but can’t pay a living wage? How embarrassing 😅

[@vonkruel]

A 24% pay increase over 4 years, from a corporation that's already losing quite a bit of money...? Great, simply _shift_ the burden of higher prices onto other Canadians, who are often already struggling to pay those higher prices themselves. Postal workers shouldn't assume that everyone will come back to use the service again after they've been screwed this way. How many jobs do they want to see cut, in the aftermath of the strike? I know not to allow anything else to fall into the hands of Canada Post, but if my belongings are held hostage in this labor dispute for even a few weeks, it will be years before I trust Canada Post with my parcels again. At this point I'm just about ready to write off Canada Post. Just give me my parcels.

[@maxsavage3998]

Why dont you try working as a letter carrier with this new scummy contract they are getting lets see if you won't shut your trap next time

[@vonkruel]

@@maxsavage3998 I'll shut my trap after I have my bloody packages.

[@Ladybug83me]

​@@maxsavage3998 lol it's better than most other people's working minimum wage

[@maxsavage3998]

@Ladybug83me ask the carriers starting at 23$hour walking 30k for 8hours..see if the work is better

[@maxsavage3998]

@@vonkruelwhen management pays its people the industry standard and not nickle and dime them then you will get your package. Blame the filthy rich 13 ceos and countless vps making 6figures

[@jeepstuff4004]

It’s not a public service, it’s a useless service

[@bibianodsouza1757]

To All Media Organization in Canada . . . . Please ask Canada Post Management The Following 1) Whose Fault is it if Sales Volumes are down for the last few years. 2) Why did Management give themselves Bonuses and Incentives this year if they are are making losses 3) Did they offer Bonuses and Incentives to Union Members 4) Do they say Investments in a new state of the art mail processing plant is part of the loss 5) Do they say that part of the loss is also because they purchased new EV Delivery Van's which are not being used ? Why were they purchased. 6) Is the Management negotiating for 1 year with the Union and allowed the strike to happen in the peak period ? I Urge the All The Canadian Media to push Canada Post Spokesperson to answer these questions. Thank You P.S. Most responses to this post are from Management !!!

[@JohnsonCook-t1q]

Canada post should be sold and it will be placed by uber and skip the dishes drivers called amed and totodeweer problem solved 😊

[@agbero2k]

Silly company

[@Pokerrr]

Silly lazy workers** I work in construction (real hard job) walking a lot lifting heavy etc don't you think we need better paycheck as well? But we aren't crying like those princes sht up.

[@jaschan2006]

Hmm if the loss is real that means there is less money to meet postal workers’ ask for more pay and other things. Sure you could cut management’s pay but what manager would agree to this? The main problem is the public will be turned against them AND people have alternative choices for couriers

[@shauncameron8390]

Namely those who live in the city.

[@LaSenzas]

Government needs to do an audit and investigate. Cries a loss but in 2023 brags about investing in building a sorting plant and a fleet of EV’s. The same EV’s that have been sitting in a parking lot for a year or more because they didn’t put in charging stations. Mismanagement? Hiding funds thru investing in 2023 so they cry a loss in 2024 during negotiations. Theres more to the negotiations than money. There health and safety, protection for pensions, benefits, equal pay for new employees, protection for postal service and if mismanagement is running the postal service into the ground what is happening with the employees. Maybe they’ve had enough and that’s why they’re on strike. CP has had a year to negotiate with the union on a contract but as always they drag their heels with the hopes of them being ordered back to work as they always are. Maybe we should just let them do their thing without judgment. It’s Christmas time, they’re on strike with families and no pay or benefits. It’s a serious situation and more to it than what’s on the news.

[@Wolverine1987]

Government needs to step in and stop this madness.

[@LaSenzas]

@@Wolverine1987 No, they need to let them have their right to negotiate a fair contract to prevent a repeat on 1978. What do you think happens when you keep taking peoples rights away?

[@tonyfulford3175]

You actually expect "Common Sense" from Justin Trudeau ? Put down the crack pipe. He always does the complete opposite of what needs to be done.

[@thomasworthington4135]

How much would the taxpayers save by elimatinatibg managemnet bonususes . If they arent running a profitable buissness what is the bonus for.

[@fabienneisore7831]

It's a public service, it never made a profit since the 2008 market crash that pushed them in the red. Cash to save banks, not your mail delivery....

[@LaSenzas]

It’s not suppose to make a profit only be sustainable. The bonus lines management pockets.

[@butchukoydeleon9401]

Just give them what they want and make them Work harder😂

[@LaSenzas]

So your all for a company who only cries poor at negotiation time? Who drags its heels hoping the government will step in and tell them to get back to work like they always have.? Who cries a loss but the CEO is fine with accepting his over 400,000 salary and gives everyone above the workers on strike a yearly bonus? A company that openly admits to investing back into the company by building a sorting plant. Then puts the cart before the horse and buys a fleet of EV’s that have sat in a parking lot for a year because they still need to put in charging stations… CP management lies and is running the postal service into the ground to line their own pockets and your mad at the people on strike? This is not all about money to the workers. It’s also about health and safety, protecting pensions and benefits, equal wages for new employees and how CP wants them to do their job. Cp is not only running the company into the ground they are trying to do the same to their employees. There is more to it than what you see on the news. The workers already work hard and have had enough.

[@noahandcadenceadventures8764]

Not many people sympathize with them. The majority of people's wages haven't gone up either. They can't pout to get their way. Worse yet dissrupt peoples lives right before Christmas. Shame

[@Loyster14]

Canada Post employees had every opportunity to go on strike well before a month and a half apx before Christmas! The union is not complcite in this iether! Know that Canada Post has lost over 3 billion dollars in the last 3 years they actually believe that asking for more is reasonable! As for the comment by a union official that taxpayers do not pay Canada Post wages and salary maybe they should retink that or recant that statement! Without buying stamps at inflated prices ! Paying for overpriced envelopes, delivery fees, and salaries of executives that should have been fired without severance managers , supervisors . As for the outside and inside employees , some have part times job like working at a golf course, not for the money but for golf privileges that don't show up for their schedules there at times. If those union officials and union members haven't noticed, you are losing rapidly any type of support or sympathy . Go back work which you have paid well for and stop holding those who are colateral damage in this hostage !

[@musicmusic6788]

Call it Ukraine Post and watch the Money Flow 💰

[@BobPerkins-v1y]

Canada post is too top heavy!

[@klausr3581]

My mailwomen didn't even deliver the parcels, she would put a note in my mailbox where to pick it up.

[@johntitorii6676]

Same ... somthin fishy

[@chaseadams628]

Same, not what it used to be

[@Funkyphresh]

I don't believe that's at all the fault of your mailwoman or the courier, it's whoever sent your parcel that's requesting a signature before your parcel can be released to you, so that leaves them no choice but to leave a note card where to pick up and sign for your parcel.

[@CBT5777]

And the rich get richer and the poor and middle class get the shaft.

[@jeepstuff4004]

They always lose money

[@shauncameron8390]

But they're government-protected.

[@nopenever705]

Putting themselves out of a job by striking

[@LaSenzas]

So your all for a company who only cries poor at negotiation time? Who drags its heels hoping the government will step in and tell them to get back to work like they always have.? Who cries a loss but the CEO is fine with accepting his over 400,000 salary and gives everyone above the workers on strike a yearly bonus? A company that openly admits to investing back into the company by building a sorting plant. Then puts the cart before the horse and buys a fleet of EV’s that have sat in a parking lot for a year because they still need to put in charging stations… CP management lies and is running the postal service into the ground to line their own pockets and your mad at the people on strike? This is not about money to the workers. It’s also about health and safety and how CP wants them to do their job. Cp is not only running the company into the ground they are trying to do the same to their employees. There is more to it than what you see on the news.

[@Ladybug83me]

​@@LaSenzas be happy you have a job making well over minimum wage ! With benefits too ! Your job requires 0 education or qualifications. Yes a boss will always make significantly more than everyone. Always ..

[@LaSenzas]

@@Ladybug83me it’s more than about money or do you not know what negotiations are about? There protecting jobs, health and safety, protecting pensions and benefits and other things that CUPW has already won thru the years like maternity leave etc. They loose those things other workers can expect to loose them things as well. If the job was so easy there wouldn’t be such a high turnover rate of employees and the injury rate wouldn’t be the worst of any job in Canada. People need to research and not just except what’s being told on the news.

[@anthonymichaels257]

I want my airfryer from Amazon 😢😢😢😢😢

[@SamoelPrince]

@@anthonymichaels257 amazon doesn't use them, they use different couriers..

[@r.o.o.k.]

​@@SamoelPrinceOnly if it's fulfilled from Amazon directly.

[@Pokerrr]

Bro amazon dosent use canada post lol.

[@SamoelPrince]

@@r.o.o.k. Never got any amazon from Canada post they have their own delivery drivers, and they do contracts third party shopping companies..

[@anthonymichaels257]

@@Pokerrr I use a flex delivery address because of porch pirates. It's only Canada Post.

[@h2oboater]

Time to sell Canada Post and let a private company run this .... Let them lean it and make it profitable and affordable. They want a raise and they are loosing hundreds of Millions ?? Thats like trying to do an Ocean Voyage on a Sinking Vessel . It just don't work !! 😕😕

[@acpalestine3296]

If it’s privatized, the company might make money by overcharging us triple the price . It’s the public who gets hurt . It’s not a good idea

[@Grace-zb3px]

Privatize? Who’s wants to buy it? Are you kidding?

[@shauncameron8390]

@@acpalestine3296 Not really but if it was privatized, rural areas would not be served at all.

[@acpalestine3296]

@@shauncameron8390 true 👍🏻.

[@Goldsavergamer]

Private is not the answer and giving raises when CP is bleeding money ain’t the answer either. Reduce overhead, management and employee side , reduce service to fit the needs of today( ie 3 days a week delivery) it’s the only to survive. They should consider themselves lucky they still have jobs… simple fact, people don’t physically mail things as much as they used to. Get rid of the union too - they not doing you any favours .