Video: New $200m Canada Post Richmond BC plant causing major mail delays says...
Union claims technical issues with sorting system at new multi-million dollar plant A $200-million Canada Post processing plant that opened in Richmond, B.C. earlier this year is experiencing technical...
View ArticleFedEx takes a page from Canada Post playbook with new locations at Home Hardware
TORONTO As more Canadians turn to online shopping, courier operator FedEx hopes an agreement to open shipping centres at Home Hardware Stores Ltd. will help it grab a larger piece of the growing...
View ArticleIssa Postal Reform bill discussion allows residents to pay ‘fee’ to continue...
National Association of Postal Supervisors released the following draft of Congressman Darrell Issa’s Postal Reform bill discussion. It appears Issa is taking a suggestion from Canada Post regarding...
View ArticlePostal Workers to Canada Post: Turn It Around By Creating New and Better...
OTTAWA,May 5, 2014 – The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) is stepping up its campaign for better postal services and innovations such as postal banking in the wake of Canada Post’s latest...
View ArticleCanada Post segment reports operating loss of $269 million in 2013 as...
Loss before tax reduced to $125 million, mostly from the sale of plant in downtown Vancouver May 5, 2014 -Ottawa (Ont.) – The Canada Post segment today reported an operating loss of $269 million for...
View ArticleSurvey Says: Most Canadians Want To Keep Door-To-Door Delivery
OTTAWA, May 20, 2014 — /CNW/ – Canada Post’s plan to cut door-to-door delivery is getting the thumbs down from most Canadians, a new poll has found. 60% of respondents to a Stratcom survey* oppose...
View ArticleMore than 70 cities band together in effort to save Canada Post’s...
Cities across the country have launched an effort to preserve door-to-door mail delivery, even as the first cuts loom this fall. Canada Post announced last December it would begin phasing out...
View ArticlePostal Banking to the rescue in both Canada and the U.S.
OTTAWA, June 4, 2014 /CNW/ – A study of banks and payday lending companies in the United States and Canada shows a real need for a postal bank exists, especially in areas where post offices abound but...
View ArticleVideo: Canada Postal Union releases list of first homes to lose door-to-door...
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers has released a preliminary list of where community mailboxes will be installed in Winnipeg this summer and fall. Two parts of northwest Winnipeg, specifically homes...
View ArticleCanada Post seeks feedback on community mailboxes
Canada Post, which is ending home delivery in urban areas, recently began going door to door to answer customers’ questions. The Canadian postal service plans to cut costs by ending home delivery in...
View ArticleCUPW: Canada Post $62 million profit proves cuts are unnecessary
OTTAWA, Aug. 27, 2014 /CNW/ – Canada Post’s latest profits prove what postal workers have been saying all along: alternatives to cutting postal service should not be dismissed. “When our post office...
View ArticleCanada: Edmonton postal workers may sell bus passes, report potholes in pilot...
EDMONTON, CANADA – Postal workers could start reporting potholes, messy yards and burned out street lights as part of a new City of Edmonton pilot project. Council’s community services committee voted...
View ArticleCanada: Thieves vandalized new community mailboxes
Update: posted wrong story: One of the new Canada Post community mailboxes in Repentigny was vandalized early Saturday morning. A photo posted on Facebook shows a box on Lavigne St. with black paint...
View ArticlePostal workers take Canada Post to court to save home delivery
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers is launching a constitutional challenge of Canada Post’s plan to axe door-to-door home mail delivery OTTAWA – Representatives from seniors’ groups and organizations...
View ArticleCanada Post begins phasing out door-to-door mail delivery
Despite protests and a court challenge, 10 communities across the country, including Winnipeg, Calgary and Ottawa, are making the switch from door-to-door mail delivery to community mailboxes starting...
View ArticleThieves crack Canada Post ‘superboxes’ in Surrey BC
CTV Vancouver: Thieves target new mailboxes February 8, 2015 – The end of Canada Post’s door-to-door service has introduced a new problem in Surrey, B.C.: a rise in community mailbox break-ins. Thieves...
View ArticleCanada Post suspending controversial community mailboxes program
October 26, 2015 OTTAWA (Ont.) – Canada Post is temporarily suspending future deployment of the program to convert door-to-door mail delivery to community mailboxes. We will work collaboratively with...
View ArticleUSPS monitors possible work stoppage at Canada Post
The Postal Service is monitoring a possible strike or work stoppage affecting Canada Post. Canada Post is the postal operator that performs delivery in Canada of U.S. shipments of First-Class Mail...
View ArticlePostal Workers ask Canada Post to extend contract talks
OTTAWA, June 28, 2016 /CNW/ – Postal workers are asking Canada Post management for a two-week extension on the cooling-off period that would otherwise entail a termination of their contract on July...
View ArticleCUPW: Why Is Canada Post Hiding The Huge Surplus In The Pension Plan?
CPC spokespeople are always talking about the deficit in the Canada Post Pension Plan. But they never mention that the plan also has a huge surplus. And while the surplus is growing, the deficit is...
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