Loss before tax reduced to $125 million, mostly from the sale of plant in downtown Vancouver May 5, 2014 -Ottawa (Ont.) – The Canada Post segment today reported an operating loss of $269 million for 2013 as Transaction Mail volumes continued to erode, falling 30 per cent per address1 since they began to decline in […]
OTTAWA,May 5, 2014 – The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) is stepping up its campaign for better postal services and innovations such as postal banking in the wake of Canada Post’s latest annual report. “Our postal system is a valuable public service available to all who live in this country and that’s how it […]
National Association of Postal Supervisors released the following draft of Congressman Darrell Issa’s Postal Reform bill discussion. It appears Issa is taking a suggestion from Canada Post regarding the ‘pay for fee’ door-to’ door delivery NAPS: Rep. Darrell Issa (D-CA), chair of the House oversight committee, is drafting a new stripped-down postal bill that he […]
TORONTO As more Canadians turn to online shopping, courier operator FedEx hopes an agreement to open shipping centres at Home Hardware Stores Ltd. will help it grab a larger piece of the growing e-commerce market. Federal Express Canada Ltd. said Wednesday that the centres, which serve as mini-hubs, will offer more “points of access” for […]
Union claims technical issues with sorting system at new multi-million dollar plant A $200-million Canada Post processing plant that opened in Richmond, B.C. earlier this year is experiencing technical difficulties with its automated sorting system, creating backlogs and delays in mail delivery services, according to union officials and customers. Canada Post recently closed its old […]
Price hikes go into effect on Monday. The Canada Post price hikes taking effect next week might do the crown corporation more harm than good, a small business advocate says. Stamp prices increase from $0.63 to $0.85 on Monday, a raise aimed at helping to make up for the decline in demand for mail delivery. […]
Protest against the plan to terminate door to door mail delivery hit Toronto streets and the mass media on Saturday afternoon, March 15. Close to 100 people answered the call of Socialist Action and braved freezing high winds to picket the constituency office of Conservative Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver at Lawrence Ave. […]
As the post office starts phasing out door-to-door home delivery, it is unveiling an updated community mailbox, with flatter slots and bigger parcel boxes. “These boxes are meant for the realities of today and the future,” said Canada Post spokesman Jon Hamilton. “The future is less mail in the box, and more boxes in the […]
Approximately 60 people braved the latest winter storm to attend a Town Hall meeting hosted by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers Local 790 to protest the expected changes to Canada Post operations announced late in 2013. The meeting, held to protest the five changes to Canada Post operations, was chaired by Brenda Muscoby-Yanke, President […]
OTTAWA, Feb. 10, 2014 /CNW/ – Canada Post Corporation (CPC) conducted a secret four-year study on postal banking, which seems to indicate that getting into financial services would be “a win-win strategy” and a “proven money-maker” for the corporation. CPC’s research study was stopped cold in the fall of 2013, just before the post office […]