Union tries to privatize Canada’s postal service
The postal service has delivered mail in Canada since 1693.The first Canadian stamp was designed by Sir Sanford Fleming, in 1851.
Canada’s postal system evolved into Canada Post
Canadian Stamps
, and now delivers more than 10 billion letters and parcels to more than 31 million Canadians as well as businesses and public institutions.
Now, today, Canada Post’s union, The Crown corporation is trying to fight to have part of their operation privatized. By doing so, this would cut more than 300 jobs across the country.
How will this affect Canada’s postal service?
The Public Service Alliance of Canada, has 2,000 members at Canada Post say this decision will badly damage the postal service, and the communities they serve.
Affected locations will include: Edmonton, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Fredericton, and Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
Richard Deslauriers, national president of the Union of Postal and Communications Employees argues, “The privatization of Canada Post has always been an objective of the current management and the conservative federal government.”
By privatizing a service that Canadians have used for decades, will deprive people of a service they have relied on.
It’s no wonder why people have resorted into using other companies to send and receive mail. It’s a shame that Canadians can’t rely on their own postal service. Eventually with enough people shutting out Canada Post all together, they will have no choice except using American postal services such as, Fed EX, UPS etc.
Additionally, Canada is still recovering from a recession, and yet another 300 workers will be laid off in their own country? There isn’t any logic in this. The Crown Corporation is deciding to outsource, which everyone knows is frustrating. Why? Because in order to get a simple question answered always ends up taking several minutes which feels like hours. Call centers located internationally is extremely hard to do business with and when you are the customer looking for a simple solution, to a simple question.
Companies see this as an easy and cost efficient way to run a business. But they fail to understand that it is also hard to train a person in an international country, who is unfamiliar with our country, not to mention our postal service. So now, there will be frustrated workers located in another country as well as frustrated customers in Canada trying to mail.
If Canadians think it’s frustrating to call into Bell, just wait until there is postal question.
