April 28, 2011
Despite its many inaccuracies, the recent report of the Montreal Economic Institute (Canada Post: Opening Up to Competition) is accurate in one respect. The study confirms that public ownership of Canada Post continues to provide Canadians with postage rates that are much lower than those charged by the few privatized post offices in Europe.
The report fails to mention the actual postage rates in the privatized post offices it selects for comparison – Germany, Austria and the Netherlands - so let’s do some easy math. In Canada we pay 59 cents to mail a standard letter. Compare this rate to Germany ($0.77 Can), Austria ($0.77 Can, set to go up soon) and the Netherlands ( $0.64 Can). Our public post office wins hands down.
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January 24, 2011
You will find attached an ad that CUPW and PSAC published in the The Hill Times on January 24, 2011. The Hill Times is an independently-owned newsweekly based in Ottawa. It is published in English and covers parliamentary and government issues, such as appointments at Crown corporations.
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November 18, 2010
What does privatizing a post office mean?
Privatization means selling a public post office to the private sector by selling shares to private investors. Once shares are sold to anyone (even employees), a post office is under pressure to make profits to satisfy investors. In other words, a privatized post office’s main goal is to make profits, not provide service to the public.
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September 23, 2010
Canada Post recently notified the union of its plans to eliminate 560.5 full-time and 119
part-time positions in Winnipeg, Halifax, Hamilton, Montreal, Quebec-Randin, Saskatoon, Saint John, and Toronto. This brings the total of positions destroyed over
the next few years due to employer programs linked to modernization (ie. Postal Transformation, Process Consolidation and
the National Network Review) to about 1050 full-time and 200 part-time. And there are more cuts to come if Canada Post has its way.
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September 24, 2010
Send a letter to your MP
Please click here to download and print out a letter to your MP (no postage necessary).
You can get your MP's name, phone number and address by calling 1-800-463-6868 (at no charge) or by going to the Parliament of Canada website: http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/index.asp?Language=E
Or send an online letter
I am writing, as both a user and an owner of Canada Post, to voice my concern about the future of our public post office.
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September 10, 2010
Canada Post is investing $2.5 billion in new equipment and methods. In this time of economic restraint, we have to make sure the investment is a good deal for you.
You deserve to share in the benefits of modernization and efficiency. The savings must be reinvested and shared with the public and the postal workers.
After all is said and done, it’s still the workers who make your postal service strong.
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May 3, 2010
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.
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May 3, 2010
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.
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July 9, 2010
The Senate’s Standing Committee on National Finance rejected four measures in the federal budget bill, including a clause that would partially deregulate Canada Post (Part 15 of C-9).
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June 24, 2010
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June 24, 2010
CUPW and the Union of Postal Communications
Employees – Public Service Alliance of Canada
(UPCE-PSAC) have joined forces on a campaign
to deal with an unparallelled assault on public
postal service and jobs.
Our objectives
1. Ensure Canada Post does not destroy hundreds
of temporary jobs and thousands of positions
in the course of reviewing and modernizing its
operations.
2. Stop the privatization of Canada Post Call
Centres and the National Philatelic Centre, as
well as the elimination of over 300 jobs.
3. Ensure our public post office shares the
benefits of postal modernization with the
public by preserving and improving public
postal service and jobs in communities across
the country.
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June 11, 2010
The federal government is attempting to push partial deregulation of Canada Post through Parliament in Part 15 of its omnibus budget bill (Bill C-9). Bill C-9 has made it through the House of Commons and is now in the Senate. The Senate Standing Committee on National Finance begins its study of the budget bill on June 14th. The Committee will report to the Senate by July 31st.
A number of Senators have expressed concern about the size and nature of the budget bill. Bill C-9 is filled with a variety of measures that have not been properly examined or debated, including the provision to partially deregulate Canada Post. Progressive Conservative Senator Lowell Murray has made a motion to split the bill. This motion has not yet been discussed.
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June 4, 2010
On Saturday, September 12, 2009, the federal Conservatives quietly announced a Canadian Postal Service Charter that outlines the government’s expectations for Canada Post in regard to service standards and other matters.
The Charter largely reiterates existing policy and includes an expectation that Canada Post will maintain “the moratorium on the closure of rural post offices.”
The Charter also acknowledges that providing postal services to rural areas is an integral part of universal postal service.
While it’s a good start, the Charter isn’t altogether reasonable.
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May 25, 2010
OTTAWA, May 25 - The only public post office in Orleans will be closing its doors unless the public gets involved. Canada Post plans to shut down the Orleans Retail Postal Outlet located at 1479 Youville Drive.
Dan L'Abbé has been working at Canada Post for 34 years and has spent the past 2 years behind the retail counter of the Orleans Post Office. L’Abbe says his customers like the location, right off the Queensway and close to Jeanne D'Arc Boulevard. “I can’t understand why anybody would want to close such a convenient location,” said L’Abbé.
Canada Post is moving its mail operations to a new facility located at the 10th Line and Innes Road. Letter carriers who worked behind the post office at Youville had been overcrowded for years. However, the postal workers say that closing the retail outlet and uprooting the many retail customers who have been using post office boxes and other services at Youville Drive is unacceptable.
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May 21, 2010
Media Advisory
What: Information picket at the Orléans Post Office to protest the closing of the only public post office in the area
When: Tuesday May 25 from 8 am – 11 am.
Where: 1479 Youville Drive, Orléans, Ontario
Who: Denis Lemelin, National President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, is scheduled to speak at 8:30 am.
For more information, contact Dave Jenkins, 613-862-7382 or the Ottawa Local of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers at 613-739-8051.
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