Resolution on People’s Postal Declaration

WHEREAS Canada Post is spending $2.5 billion on new plants, vehicles, equipment and other items to modernize our public post office.

WHEREAS the corporation is expecting to save millions annually from modernization, largely through productivity gains that pave the way for Canada Post to eliminate thousands of jobs in communities all across the country.

WHEREAS Canada Post is also making cuts to service by closing post offices, eliminating rural home delivery, removing street letterboxes and other means.

WHEREAS the gains flowing from postal modernization could be used to preserve and improve public postal services and jobs.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT (name of group or municipality) agrees to sign the People’s Postal Declaration which calls on Canada Post 1) to share the benefits of postal modernization with the people who own Canada Post – the public; 2) to pursue more socially responsible objectives as it transforms our post office for the future.

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).