Resolution on Canadian Postal Service Charter and Cuts to Public Postal Service and Jobs

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.

WHEREAS these cuts are indicative of a Canada Post that increasingly puts commercial interests before the public interest.

WHEREAS the government’s Canadian Postal Service Charter does not adequately protect the public interest or the public nature of our post office, especially when Canada Post is considering cuts to public postal service or privatizing part of its operations
(e.g. post offices, call centre, etc.)

BE IT RESOLVED THAT the (name of group or municipality) write a letter to Rob Merrifield, the Minister responsible for Canada Post and ask that he 1) instruct Canada Post to stop cutting public postal service and jobs and start acting like the public service people want it to be 2) consult with the public, municipalities, members of Parliament, postal unions and other major stakeholders to dramatically improve the Canadian Postal Service Charter.

MAILING INFORMATION

Please send your resolution to:  Rob Merrifield, Minister of State for Transport, Place de Ville, Tower C, 29th Floor, 330 Sparks Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0N5.

Please send copies of your resolution to:

1. Denis Lemelin, President, Canadian Union of Postal Workers, 377 Bank Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 1Y3
2. Your member of Parliament. You can get your MP’s name, phone number and address by calling 1-800 463-6868 (at no charge) or going to the Parliament of Canada website: http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/index.asp?Language=E
3. Hans Cunningham, President, Federation of Canadian Municipalities
   24 Clarence Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 5P3

For further information

Contact George Floresco, 3rd National Vice President, Canadian Union of Postal Workers, 377 Bank Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 1Y3, (613-236-7238 ext 7909)