Our Vision of the Post Office
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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July 9, 2010
The Senate’s Standing Committee on National Finance rejected four measures in the federal budget bill, including a clause that would partially deregulate Canada Post (Part 15 of C-9).
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June 24, 2010
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January 29, 2009
The federal Conservatives and Canada Post Corporation (CPC) might call P3s “Public Private Partnerships”, but for working families, P3s are all about privatization.
P3’s are another way of contracting out public services. Instead of governments and Crown corporations (like Canada Post) providing public services, the private sector gets involved in financing, designing, building, operating, and owning public services, facilities and infrastructure.
The federal Conservatives, P3s and the global economic meltdown
The federal Conservatives recently filled the top positions at PPP Canada Inc., a Crown corporation tasked to speed up the privatization of public services.
Communities suffering from the fall-out of the global financial crisis and in urgent need of public infrastructure funds will suffer unnecessarily because P3s are plagued by secrecy, lack of public accountability, legal disputes and lengthy time delays.
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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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That's what Canada Post thinks. Canada Post says that it has 200 large customers that make or break the
corporation and that it needs to keep its eyes on the people who pay the bills.
So what about the rest of us? You know, the 33 million folks who make up this country. The people who
built a...
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Our vision of the post office (Document)
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Our vision of the post office (Leaflet)
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