BS: Canada Post's Seasonal Gift

Subject: BS: Canada Post's Seasonal Gift
From: ragdall
Date: 11 Dec 13 - 09:21 PM

Canada Post's Seasonal Gift to their employees and Urban residents will be an end to door-to-door delivery and higher postal rates.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/critics-blast-canada-post-s-plan-to-phase-out-door-to-door-delivery-1.1584625

This will create serious problems for those of us who are facing decreasing mobility and will end employment for many postal workers.
Merry Whatever-you-celebrate!

rags

Subject: RE: BS: Canada Post's Seasonal Gift
From: gnu
Date: 11 Dec 13 - 10:16 PM

Who cares about old people, rags? Certainly not our present government.

Subject: RE: BS: Canada Post's Seasonal Gift
From: bobad
Date: 11 Dec 13 - 10:50 PM

Canada Toast

Subject: RE: BS: Canada Post's Seasonal Gift
From: ragdall
Date: 11 Dec 13 - 10:51 PM

gnu,
Maybe this goes hand in hand with decreasing the money spent on caring for the elderly? If enough of us perish from the cold or pneumonia from trying to retrieve our pension cheques, it will be win-win for the government.

Welcome to my world:
Today's weather. My little car kept bogging down trying to get around on the streets today. There is no way that I could use my walker to go even one block to pick up mail.
rags

Subject: RE: BS: Canada Post's Seasonal Gift
From: gnu
Date: 12 Dec 13 - 06:43 AM

Oh dear, rags! We haven't had any amount of snow yet. Of course, even your snow pic isn't as bad as Ed's. THAT'S a whiteout! >;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Canada Post's Seasonal Gift
From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 12 Dec 13 - 07:22 AM

:)
Some people can read almost anything into a blank page

Subject: RE: BS: Canada Post's Seasonal Gift
From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 12 Dec 13 - 07:26 AM

Not too long ago local folks were laid off, as the phone company plans to phase out the Yellow pages phone book. I suspect the future jobs-servicers associated with paper are uncertain, except in "the wiping" sector.

Subject: RE: BS: Canada Post's Seasonal Gift
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 12 Dec 13 - 07:44 AM

rags! get away from that cold wet white weather - Sydney is so much warmer!

I was reading about Canada post's woes in my local paper - doubling postage & cutting services - are you sure you're not already in Australia?

Scrooge McAusPost raised overseas christmas stamps from $1.60 to $2.60, & a tiny little cardboard-covered CD cost $6.25 to send overseas!!!!!

sandra ('We'll all be ruined, said Hanrahan' - line from a famous Australian poem where a farmer is talking about the drought & other miseries)

Subject: RE: BS: Canada Post's Seasonal Gift
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Dec 13 - 10:36 AM

In the US there are already many urban places that have 'community' boxes. The practice is obviously much more cost effective for the postal service. For individuals, it can be a problem. My sis had to rely on her neighbor bringing her her mail; asking that favor bothered her a great deal.

Rural areas have individual mail boxes- but because they are at the street or road, they are often the equivalent of half a city block away from the front door.

In apartment houses, a line of community boxes (indoors) is standard.

Like most/many people my mail box gets little use these days. I use direct-to-the-bank check/cheque service, and most of my communications are done by email and cell phone.

Subject: RE: BS: Canada Post's Seasonal Gift
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 12 Dec 13 - 07:25 PM

ragdall- yep, have to get someone to pick up our mail as well. Being disabled by age, we get books, CDs, clothes, etc. by mail.

Subject: RE: BS: Canada Post's Seasonal Gift
From: gnu
Date: 13 Dec 13 - 05:57 AM

So, there are 1B less pieces of mail but they are going to open 10,000 new franchise post offices over 5 years?

http://trinitytoday.ca/2013/12/youll-pay-1-stamp-wont-get-mail-delivered-door-urban-areas/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_cam

Subject: RE: BS: Canada Post's Seasonal Gift
From: gnu
Date: 18 Dec 13 - 08:00 AM

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/12/16/ethan-cox-how-to-save-canada-post/