The only real mail thats addressed to me and also isnt some sort of ad like my credit card company trying to give me a balance transfer promo is like once every few months.
I dont check my box often unless im expecting something and its often full of junk.
I ain’t spending even more effort to deal with a community box far away, so they’re gonna be shoving shit in there with no room to keep shoving.
Oh, and most of the mail i get is for past people who lived here even though i keep doing return to sender on their shit.
All the ever deliver to my home is junk. It’s 2026.
The money supply grows at 7% a year, and somehow real estate prices keep going up, goods keep getting made cheaper and cheaper, food keeps degrading in quantity and quality, and we keep losing things we used to consider basic services.
I wonder if they are at all correlated.
Keep people poor and desperate. I honestly just can’t believe how bad it has been getting.
April 1 Again?
What do you mean “planning” to. They’ve refused to deliver packages for nearly a decade at this point. Oh sure, they’ll say they’ll deliver, but they never do, just a note telling you to go do their job for them. Literally the only delivery company that has this issue with my place.
Literally the only delivery company that has this issue with my place.
Sounds like you have a personal problem with CP. Stop using them, jackass.
I do avoid them as much as possible, including paying extra to use alternative shipping. Sometimes there is no other option if a vendor will only ship with CP. Even then, I’ll typically try to find a different vendor for what I need.
Many subdivisions already do this. The home I used to live in, we had to go to the end of the block to get our mail. It wasn’t a community or HOA or anything. This was, oh, 15 years back.
Yeah. I’ve never had home delivery of mail. Always gone to boxes. I don’t see what the big deal is.
Not everyone is able-bodied, friend. Imagine being a wheelchair user when your neighbours can’t be bothered to shovel and the city hasn’t plowed.
Yes I can because I’ve never had to door mail where I live. As a matter of fact, 75% of Canadian homes don’t have to door mail. This doesn’t seem fair.
Mostly a big deal in dense cities, apparently. Figuring out where to put a great many of them when most of the space is taken up by other things. They’re considering using parking spots for some of them, which has raised questions about the safety of the people accessing them. Other solutions and problems as well. Everywhere I have lived for the last 25 years has had these boxes, and they tend to build spots into new neighbourhoods to support them, but subdivisions aren’t super dense, so I can see why cities might have challenges.
One place I lived had no boxes or home delivery. I had to go the the post office.
I remember the post office having a foyer full of little PO boxes that were loaded from the rear, and most people in town had to go there to get their mail. That was in small town Ontario 40 years ago, but they’d have probably used these super boxes now instead.
That’s small town living.
You mean the proposal from Harper that was lambasted by the Liberals and the union?
Considering Canada Post is billions in debt partly because Canadians no longer care or use the service needs to be addressed. Is it an essential service if no one cares?
Who’s not using the mail service? Every time I go to the post office the line up is at least 5 deep.
Huge decrease in mail delivery over the last 5 years. Number of pieces of mail delivered to homes has gone from 372 in 2006 to 131 in 2024 (Canada Post data).
It’s incredibly disingenuous to look at a public service and say “This costs money to operate” as if it was a bad thing. Like wtf do you expect? It’s obvious and conservatives frame this obvious fact in such a way that garners support for their wanton destuction of our society in the name of profit. Profit for themselves and their friends, which very likely does not include you.
You repeat their spin almost verbatim and with your vote they slowly run our institutions to the ground and hammer in a FOR SALE sign.
You should be fucking ashamed of yourself.
It seems to be used mostly by businesses now: send bills or parcels, send advertising. It still has a role to play, but I do think it needs to be adjusted because of its shifting role.
If they no longer used it, the expense of running it would be very low. So maybe your information is wrong…?
Yup, keep taking the blue pill.
Edit: Okay, I did not know the meaning’s kinda flipped on the current political parlance, so I thought I’d clarify; yeah, keep downing the shovelled reality where “nobody wants to use Canada Post”, instead of thinking about the generations of governments that have continually failed to update and keep Canada Post relevant, while allowing private companies to eat that pie and even allow people with a clear conflict of interest to have a strong influence over Canada Post’s management. So yeah, it’s the original “blue pill” from The Matrix.
Non-unionized private parcel delivery prove delivering door to door can be profitable, but it would mean layoffs from automating more of the processes, and a more flexible workforce that isn’t paid so well that they can retire by age 50 like a millionaire with full pension.
No businesses that take themselves seriously are going to willingly choose to use a logistics, infrastructure, or banking service subject to regular labour disruptions.
Non-unionized private parcel delivery prove
that they fucking suck. They dont know how to drive, park, secure their vehicle or even fucking safe drop.
Canada Post is the cheapest and most reliable in this nation for a reason. If you have a problem pickup the fucking phone and complain. Stop going onto Facebook to cry like a bitch.
Why would a service needs to be profitable? Is garbage disposal turning a profit?
Canada Post should be like the armed forces, healthcare, or homeless shelters, a total financial loss in exchange for an essential service.
Ban those private delivery companies. Problem solved.
