Strategic Review Panel Must Choose Between Conflicting Visions of Our Public Post Office

The recommendations made by CUPW and CPC management to the Post Office Strategic Review reflect very different visions of the future of our public post office. Soon we will see what vision the panel chooses.

Here are summaries of the recommendations made to the Strategic Review by both CUPW and CPC

 

Summary of CUPW’s 25 Recommendations

N^o1: Review process should be opened to the public.

N^o2: All recommendations should be examined in the context of the environment.

N^o3 - N^o4: CPC should maintain its exclusive privilege. The exclusive privilege should not be revisited until 2018.

N^o5 -N^o7: The government should withdraw Bill C-14 (The Bill to legalize private sector remailers).

N^o8 -N^o10: The government should reorganize the courier industry through a very significant expansion of the parcel delivery services of CPC.

N^o11-N^o12: Permit postage rate increases to recover cost increases. Reduced rates for non-profit organisations.

N^o13 -N^o14: Eliminate targets in the Multi-Year Policy and Financial Framework. CPC, to stop paying dividends.

N^o15 -N^o16: The universal service obligation should include the collection, processing, transmission and delivery for a minimum of five days per week for all products.

N^o17 -N^o19: The moratorium on retail closures should include urban offices.

N^o20: CPC should audit postal services offered to aboriginal peoples and improve services.

N^o21: CPC should cease converting rural mailbox delivery to community mailboxes without consultation.

N^o22: Continue programs such as materials for the use of the blind, publications assistance, the food program and library book rate.

N^o23: No regulatory body. If a regulatory body is established, it must oversee competitors.

N^o24: Make the ombudsperson independent.

N^o25: The government should examine the environmental impact of postal services.

 

Summary of CPC’s 9 Recommendations

N^o1: Exclusive privilege to be eliminated only after CPC has introduced the “modern post” and obtained significant rollbacks in the CUPW collective agreement.

N^o2: Canada Post should be compensated at market rates for any public policy program.

N^o3: Change the moratorium on rural closures to permit more closures.

N^o4: Eliminate the current price cap.

N^o5: Change the solvency rules for the CPC Pension Plan.

N^o6: Increase CPC’s borrowing limit.

N^o7: Appoint a third party to review the CUPW collective agreement and recommend rollbacks with government support in the next negotiations.

N^o8: Establish an employee share ownership plan with non voting shares.

N^o9: Give the CPC Board of Directors the right to increase the pay of CPC’s President and CEO.

 

You be the Judge. Which vision would you choose?