The 160 page report: https://infopost.ca/wp-c/u/2025/05/canada-post-iic-report-2025.pdf
Report key findings: https://infopost.ca/wp-c/u/2025/05/f1-iic-key-findings.pdf
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Amend the Postal Charter. It cannot continue to require impossible-to-meet delivery standards. Daily door-to-door letter mail delivery for individual addresses should be phased out and community mailboxes established wherever practicable. Daily delivery to businesses should be maintained.
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The moratoriums on rural post office closures and community mailbox conversions should be lifted. There is no persuasive case for a moratorium on closure of once rural, now urban, post offices. Canada Post already has the Delivery Accommodation Program in place for Canadians who cannot access community mailboxes. It should be reviewed and, if need be, enhanced, and it should continue.
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Include in the two collective agreements all items agreed to in collective bargaining prior to the labour dispute. Parties should attempt to narrow differences in all partially agreed-upon items. New collective agreements should include and reflect tentative agreements (subject to agreement as a whole) reached in Commission-facilitated mediation (RSMC and STDP).
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Negotiate changes to the collective agreements. Canada Post must have the flexibility to hire part-time employees working part-time hours to deliver parcels on the weekend and to assist with volume during the week. These employees should be paid the same rates and be subject to the same terms and conditions as regular employees, including access to pro rata benefits, or payments in lieu, and pension. Priority for these positions should be given to existing employees.
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Negotiate changes to the Urban collective agreement. There is no justification for collective agreement provisions that preclude an employer from assigning work for hours already paid (except by voluntary overtime).
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Negotiate changes to the collective agreements. Pilot and then introduce dynamic routing. Canada Post must also be able to change routes daily to reflect volumes to avoid trapped time and overtime.
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Amend the time-consuming approval process for postage increases
I don’t think postal service should be for profit, I think why is self evident except in an oft repeated line like “to those whose paycheques rely on not understanding.”
How about we just move away from expecting crown corporations that provide a public service to operate like a for-profit company.
This! Of course it’s insolvent.
We’re expecting a gov’t service that is in the same category as “maintaining property rights” to opperate as a for profit business? Stupid. If we want a national mail service we need to pay for it.
Might as well ask the military to be self-financing 🙄
Military operated with civil asset forfeiture.
I can see the American army doing that, rolling through Kabul packing everything up (except people) and putting it on planes back to Arkansas
It sucks but it’s necessary. Daily delivery is expensive, and they need to be able to reroute people. The volume doesn’t justify the model we’re used to. If we want it to survive at all it has to adapt.
Keeping the post offices especially in rural areas is the big thing and expanding outside postal services seems like a viable way of doing it.
The problem is circular with the mail volume. When we absolutely justified daily delivery they were making 194m gross profits in 2014 now they’re losing 750m a year. Either they’ll have to justify going door to door for another reason or we’ll have to cover the nearly the complete cost of doing so.
Would like to see Canada Post survive this. Post is changing so Canada Post should too.
