Our Vision of the Post Office

Resolution on People’s Postal Declaration
(July 23, 2010 / Our Vision of the Post Office / Resolutions)

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...

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Resolution on Canadian Postal Service Charter and Cuts to Public Postal Service and Jobs
(July 23, 2010 / Our Vision of the Post Office / Resolutions)

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...

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Canada Post: A Public Institution
(October 18, 2006 / Our Vision of the Post Office / Resolutions)

WHEREAS Canada Post is a Crown corporation that is mandated by law to provide basic customary postal service while operating on a financially self-sustaining basis. WHEREAS Crown corporations like Canada Post have both public and commercial activities, but are distinct from commercial enterprises in that they are designed to serve the public interest, not maximize profit. WHEREAS the federal government has asked Canada Post to act like a commercial enterprise that generates commercial...

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Did we build our public post office for 200 customers?
(October 16, 2006 / Our Vision of the Post Office / Opinion-Editorials)

That's what Canada Post thinks. Canada Post says that it has 200 large customers that make or break the corporation and that it needs to keep its eyes on the people who pay the bills. So what about the rest of us? You know, the 33 million folks who make up this country. The people who built and paid for our public post office. Don't we matter? Canada Post is quick to point out that we have an "emotional" or "historic" relationship to the post office that no longer makes sense. Senior...

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Our vision of the post office (Document)
(October 6, 2006 / Our Vision of the Post Office / Booklets and Manuals)

Our vision of the post office (Document) ...

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Our vision of the post office (Leaflet)
(October 6, 2006 / Our Vision of the Post Office / Leaflets)

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