The only real mail thats addressed to me and also isnt some sort of ad like my credit card company trying to give me a balance transfer promo is like once every few months.
I dont check my box often unless im expecting something and its often full of junk.
I ain’t spending even more effort to deal with a community box far away, so they’re gonna be shoving shit in there with no room to keep shoving.
Oh, and most of the mail i get is for past people who lived here even though i keep doing return to sender on their shit.
All the ever deliver to my home is junk. It’s 2026.
If you put a no flyers note on your mailbox they will respect it 90% of the time
The money supply grows at 7% a year, and somehow real estate prices keep going up, goods keep getting made cheaper and cheaper, food keeps degrading in quantity and quality, and we keep losing things we used to consider basic services.
I wonder if they are at all correlated.
yeah I can’t believe how much things are now. Outside of computers and internet related things and more international food stuff everything from the way things ran in the 70’s was perfectly modern and convenient but without so much plastic. I mean friggin lately we have been getting paper towel roles that consistantly have bad perforations. I have lived decades and while maybe once in a great while one would tear badly it was never such a matter of course. It was so unoften you would not remember the last time it happened. Now like ten sheets in every roll won’t tear properly.
It could have something to do with this, which controls how fast the money supply increases, and how much your paychecks purchasing power needs to be debased via monetary inflation. If things get shittier and living standards fall it doesnt really take that into account and is considered out of scope.
https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/subjects-start/prices_and_price_indexes/consumer_price_indexes/faq
Is the CPI a cost of living index?
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is not equivalent to a cost-of-living index (COLI). The CPI has often been used to approximate cost-of-living but it is important to note that the CPI and COLI are not directly comparable.
The CPI is based on a fixed basket of goods and services, which represents the average Canadian household’s spending habits. The CPI measures the average change in retail prices encountered by all consumers in Canada. By contrast, the objective of a COLI is to measure price changes experienced by consumers in maintaining a constant standard of living. A COLI can be linked to the notion of the minimum amount of money that would be necessary in different periods of time to ensure a given level of “well-being”.
In short, the CPI measures the change in the cost of a fixed basket of goods and services, whereas a COLI measures the change in the cost of a fixed level of “well-being”.
Keep people poor and desperate. I honestly just can’t believe how bad it has been getting.
Many subdivisions already do this. The home I used to live in, we had to go to the end of the block to get our mail. It wasn’t a community or HOA or anything. This was, oh, 15 years back.
I’m kind of looking forward to having community mailboxes honestly. I don’t much mail and it’s an excuse to get out of the house.
Yeah. I’ve never had home delivery of mail. Always gone to boxes. I don’t see what the big deal is.
Not everyone is able-bodied, friend. Imagine being a wheelchair user when your neighbours can’t be bothered to shovel and the city hasn’t plowed.
Yes I can because I’ve never had to door mail where I live. As a matter of fact, 75% of Canadian homes don’t have to door mail. This doesn’t seem fair.
Mostly a big deal in dense cities, apparently. Figuring out where to put a great many of them when most of the space is taken up by other things. They’re considering using parking spots for some of them, which has raised questions about the safety of the people accessing them. Other solutions and problems as well. Everywhere I have lived for the last 25 years has had these boxes, and they tend to build spots into new neighbourhoods to support them, but subdivisions aren’t super dense, so I can see why cities might have challenges.
One place I lived had no boxes or home delivery. I had to go the the post office.
I remember the post office having a foyer full of little PO boxes that were loaded from the rear, and most people in town had to go there to get their mail. That was in small town Ontario 40 years ago, but they’d have probably used these super boxes now instead.
That’s small town living.
What do you mean “planning” to. They’ve refused to deliver packages for nearly a decade at this point. Oh sure, they’ll say they’ll deliver, but they never do, just a note telling you to go do their job for them. Literally the only delivery company that has this issue with my place.
Agreed, Canada post is an essential service, and they super suck at delivering packages.
Literally the only delivery company that has this issue with my place.
Sounds like you have a personal problem with CP. Stop using them, jackass.
I do avoid them as much as possible, including paying extra to use alternative shipping. Sometimes there is no other option if a vendor will only ship with CP. Even then, I’ll typically try to find a different vendor for what I need.
April 1 Again?
You mean the proposal from Harper that was lambasted by the Liberals and the union?
Considering Canada Post is billions in debt partly because Canadians no longer care or use the service needs to be addressed. Is it an essential service if no one cares?
Who’s not using the mail service? Every time I go to the post office the line up is at least 5 deep.
Huge decrease in mail delivery over the last 5 years. Number of pieces of mail delivered to homes has gone from 372 in 2006 to 131 in 2024 (Canada Post data).
It’s incredibly disingenuous to look at a public service and say “This costs money to operate” as if it was a bad thing. Like wtf do you expect? It’s obvious and conservatives frame this obvious fact in such a way that garners support for their wanton destuction of our society in the name of profit. Profit for themselves and their friends, which very likely does not include you.
You repeat their spin almost verbatim and with your vote they slowly run our institutions to the ground and hammer in a FOR SALE sign.
You should be fucking ashamed of yourself.
It seems to be used mostly by businesses now: send bills or parcels, send advertising. It still has a role to play, but I do think it needs to be adjusted because of its shifting role.
If they no longer used it, the expense of running it would be very low. So maybe your information is wrong…?
Yup, keep taking the blue pill.
Edit: Okay, I did not know the meaning’s kinda flipped on the current political parlance, so I thought I’d clarify; yeah, keep downing the shovelled reality where “nobody wants to use Canada Post”, instead of thinking about the generations of governments that have continually failed to update and keep Canada Post relevant, while allowing private companies to eat that pie and even allow people with a clear conflict of interest to have a strong influence over Canada Post’s management. So yeah, it’s the original “blue pill” from The Matrix.
Non-unionized private parcel delivery prove delivering door to door can be profitable, but it would mean layoffs from automating more of the processes, and a more flexible workforce that isn’t paid so well that they can retire by age 50 like a millionaire with full pension.
No businesses that take themselves seriously are going to willingly choose to use a logistics, infrastructure, or banking service subject to regular labour disruptions.
Canada Post pension maxes out at 35yrs, and you get hit with major deductions if you retire before 60 even with 30 years. Otherwise its 65 yrs for retirement. https://www.cpcpension.com/homepage/triage_glossary-e.asp#Pensionable-age
This is not dissimilar to any other DB pension.
The pension value is, again, similar to every other pension I’ve seen (AMAPCEO, OPS, etc). If someone can retire early and"like a millionaire" (which is a super outdated valuation), either their spouse has a good pension too, they made smart financial choices, or they got lucky with choices.
In comparison to every other modern country, our nationalized mail service does extremely well and is run **very **efficiently. Like top 1 or 2 in the world well. Source
We shouldn’t be simping for multinational corps who manage to get away with rock bottom delivery pricing by underpaying staff and claiming “this is efficiency”.
This comments section doesn’t feel like a safe place to have this discussion 😅
Why would a service needs to be profitable? Is garbage disposal turning a profit?
Canada Post should be like the armed forces, healthcare, or homeless shelters, a total financial loss in exchange for an essential service.
Non-unionized private parcel delivery prove
that they fucking suck. They dont know how to drive, park, secure their vehicle or even fucking safe drop.
Canada Post is the cheapest and most reliable in this nation for a reason. If you have a problem pickup the fucking phone and complain. Stop going onto Facebook to cry like a bitch.
Ban those private delivery companies. Problem solved.
