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September 24, 2010
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I am writing, as both a user and an owner of Canada Post, to voice my concern about the future of our public post office.
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September 10, 2010
Canada Post is investing $2.5 billion in new equipment and methods. In this time of economic restraint, we have to make sure the investment is a good deal for you.
You deserve to share in the benefits of modernization and efficiency. The savings must be reinvested and shared with the public and the postal workers.
After all is said and done, it’s still the workers who make your postal service strong.
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May 3, 2010
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.
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May 3, 2010
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.
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June 24, 2010
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April 29, 2010
We the undersigned believe that Canada Post should share the benefits of postal modernization with the public in the form of improved public postal service and jobs.
We want a modern post office that:
-is universal, public, affordable and green.
-maintains and improves services.
-works for people and employees.
-provides good jobs in communities.
-promotes economic growth and healthy communities.
-is service-oriented and financially viable.
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November 5, 2009
Petition to the House of Commons
WHEREAS the federal government is allowing Canada Post to close public post offices in spite of a moratorium on closures in rural and small towns.
WHEREAS the government expects Canada Post to inform people at least one month prior to closing, moving or amalgamating their public post office and explore options that address people’s concerns
WHEREAS a month is an inadequate amount of time for a whole community to discuss a closure and explore options.
WHEREAS public post offices connect communities throughout this vast land, helping us to overcome differences and distances.
WHEREAS public post offices play a key role in our social and economic life by providing the infrastructure that healthy communities need to thrive and businesses need to grow.
We call on the Government of Canada to instruct Canada Post to maintain and improve its network of public post offices and to consult with the public, their elected representatives, postal unions and other major stakeholders to develop a uniform and democratic process for making changes to this network.
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October 15, 2009
In June 2009, the federal government introduced Bill C-44, an Act to amend the Canada Post Corporation Act (virtually identical to Bill C-14). If approved, this bill would partially deregulate Canada Post by removing international letters from Canada Post’s exclusive privilege to handle letters.
Bill C-44 is currently being debated in the House of Commons. The single most important action you can take to help defeat Bill C-44 is to contact your member of Parliament (MP).
CUPW has produced a letter to MPs on Bill C-44 and a leaflet which explains Bill C-44 in the context of the Canada Post Corporation Strategic Review.
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October 15, 2009
Last year, the federal government conducted a very quick and quiet review of our post office called the Canada Post Corporation Strategic Review (CPCSR). The government did not hold public hearings during the CPCSR and is not consulting with the public on CPCSR report recommendations.
The CPCSR report, which was released in April 2009, recommended against postal deregulation, but with the exception that international letters be removed from Canada Post's exclusive privilege to handle letters. The government accepted this recommendation in June 2009 when it introduced Bill C-44.
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July 22, 2009
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 and jobs in our community and fundamentally change the nature of Canada Post’s retail and delivery network.
WHEREAS the report proposes that Canada Post’s highly inadequate community consultation process be used when closing or “rationalizing” a post office/outlet and that a similar process be used when replacing rural mailbox delivery with delivery to a community box, green box or post office.
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June 25, 2009
WHEREAS the federal government is considering ending the current moratorium on post office closures.
WHEREAS the federal government has introduced legislation to legalize the activities of remailers, which
will erode the revenues of Canada Post Corporation needed to maintain its current Universal Service
Obligation.
WHEREAS our public post office plays a key role in our social and economic life by providing the
infrastructure that healthy communities need to thrive and businesses need to grow.
We call on the Government of Canada to maintain the moratorium on post office closures and withdraw the
legislation to legalize remailers.
We also call upon the Government of Canada to instruct Canada Post to maintain, expand and improve
postal services.
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September 2, 2008
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July 7, 2008
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 diffic...
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June 12, 2008
The Canadian Labour Congress is concerned because the federal government is considering deregulation of
our public post office through its strategic review of Canada Post. The Canadian Labour Congress is worried
that as a result of this review; the federal government will either reduce or eliminat...
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February 28, 2008
The community of Pointe-Saint-Charles, which is l
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November 14, 2007
The federal government has introduced Bill C-14, an Act to amend the Canada Post Corporation Act .
If passed, Bill C-14 would partially deregulate Canada Post by removing international letters from Canada
Post's exclusive privilege to deliver letters.
CUPW believes that it will become increa...
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July 31, 2007
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July 31, 2007
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April 25, 2007
Right-wingers have been chasing their dream of taking down the post office since the Conservatives came to
power last year. International mailers have been lobbying members of Parliament from all parties and the
federal government now appears to be considering a reduction in Canada Post's exclusiv...
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April 20, 2007
Dear Customer,
Re: Door-to-door mail delivery
It has come to the attention of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers that Canada Post is planning to
replace the door-to-door mail delivery you currently have with centralized mailboxes.
It is our understanding that the Carleton Condomi...
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April 20, 2007
Please send the petition with original signatures to the CUPW National Office as per the address
at the bottom of the petition. DO NOT RETURN BY FAX.
WHEREAS Canada Post is opening privately-run post offices or franchises instead of public post offices run
by Canada Post.
WH...
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April 20, 2007
Please send the petition with original signatures to the CUPW National Office as per the address
at the bottom of the petition. DO NOT RETURN BY FAX.
WHEREAS Canada Post is switching residents from door-to-door mail delivery to community mailbox
delivery.
WHEREAS residents w...
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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 ente...
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Our vision of the post office (Leaflet)
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Please send the petition with original signatures to the CUPW National Office as per the address at the bottom of the petition. DO NOT RETURN BY FAX. WHEREAS the federal government is allowing Canada Post to close post offices in spite of a moratorium on closures in rural and small towns. WHERE...
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Please send the petition with original signatures by September 14th, 2005 to the CUPW Quebec Regional Office as per the address at the bottom of the petition. DO NOT RETURN BY FAX. We, the undersigned, draw the attention of the House to the following: THAT a well-functioning public post-office i...
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