Resolutions

Resolution on People’s Postal Declaration
(July 23, 2010 / Our Vision of the Post Office / Resolutions)

WHEREAS Canada Post is spending $2.5 billion on new plants, vehicles, equipment and other items to modernize our public post office. WHEREAS the corporation is expecting to save millions annually from modernization, largely through productivity gains that pave the way for Canada Post to eliminate thousands of jobs in communities all across the country. WHEREAS Canada Post is also making cuts to service by closing post offices, eliminating rural home delivery, removing street letterboxes...

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Resolution on Canadian Postal Service Charter and Cuts to Public Postal Service and Jobs
(July 23, 2010 / Our Vision of the Post Office / Resolutions)

WHEREAS Canada Post plans on cutting thousands of jobs in hundreds of communities across the country by modernizing and reviewing its operations and privatizing philatelic and call centres. WHEREAS Canada Post is also cutting services by eliminating rural mail box delivery, closing post offices, removing street letter boxes and other means. WHEREAS these cuts are indicative of a Canada Post that increasingly puts commercial interests before the public interest. WHEREAS the...

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Resolution: Save Public Post Offices and Rural Delivery
(July 22, 2009 / Strategic Review of Canada Post / Resolutions)

WHEREAS the report of the Canada Post Corporation Strategic Review (CPCSR) recommends that the current moratorium on post office closures in rural and small towns be replaced with a mechanism involving new rules and procedures, including the ability to replace public post offices with private outlets. WHEREAS the report also recommends that rural mailbox delivery be reconsidered. WHEREAS these recommendations, if implemented by the federal government, would undermine public postal service...

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Resolution for Municipalities on the Canada Post Corporation Strategic Review
(July 7, 2008 / Strategic Review of Canada Post / Resolutions)

WHEREAS the Canada Post Corporation Strategic Review, which was launched by the federal government on April 21, 2008, is looking at deregulating our public post office (i.e. reducing or removing Canada Post’s exclusive privilege on letters) WHEREAS it will become increasingly difficult for our public post office to provide affordable service to everyone, no matter where they live, if the government erodes or eliminates the very mechanism that funds universal postal service - the...

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Canada Post: A Public Institution
(October 18, 2006 / Our Vision of the Post Office / Resolutions)

WHEREAS Canada Post is a Crown corporation that is mandated by law to provide basic customary postal service while operating on a financially self-sustaining basis. WHEREAS Crown corporations like Canada Post have both public and commercial activities, but are distinct from commercial enterprises in that they are designed to serve the public interest, not maximize profit. WHEREAS the federal government has asked Canada Post to act like a commercial enterprise that generates commercial...

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