#canada-post

#canada-post

Canada's national postal service, struggling with billions of dollars in losses and mired in difficult contract negotiations with its union, will end door-to-door delivery and cut other services in a sweeping reorganization aimed at restoring operations to solvency, officials said. "Canada Post is facing an existential crisis," Joël Lightbound, the government minister responsible for the crown corporation, told reporters Thursday. With Canadians receiving fewer letters and private carriers now delivering most parcels, he said, the corporation has lost more than $3.5 billion since 2018 and is on pace to lose more than $1 billion this year alone.

In the political landscape of 2015, Justin Trudeau's alliance with Denis Coderre against Canada Post's modernization revealed a focus on scoring points over sound policymaking.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers has called for a countrywide overtime ban, urging members to refuse work over 40 hours a week to ensure continued negotiations.

It's very, very hard. We're spending too much time trying to keep our business going since COVID... We're always getting blocks.