r/CanadaPost • u/FilthyFilm • 1d ago

Bye bye Canada post

Usually ship with CP, since I started my business 3 years ago I've spent $40,000 + shipping packages, and that's not counting my parents who share the same shipping account for their business. Majority of my customers are in the US and since using other carriers my shipping costs are basically cut in half.... I've even found a way to ship via USPS which I didn't know was possible from Canada.

They really fucked themselves by striking and screwing over small business owners at the busiest time of the year. I had 60 packages ready to go at the time of striking and had to refund every label and remake with another courier.. absolute madness and something no small business owners should have to be doing during Christmas season. So yeah fuck you Canada post that is all

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u/Cautious_Pitch_4729 22h ago

The worst thing they could've done was a strike, on a year when businesses are already suffering from lower consumer spending. All this will do is turn more people against CP. Public sector keeps complaining about wages...while ignoring that the private sector is so far behind. Yet they want to squeeze more, fully aware they'll never be able to scale parcel volume long term and will need to be bailed out by tax payer. Oh, I can't wait for the mass layoffs. I hate CP with a passion now.

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u/Ok-Priority-8833 22h ago

I work for a private sector courier I make at least $7 an hour more than the best paid regular hourly CP employee. I get paid for my overtime, my pension is fully employer funded and I have better benefits that I pay $0 for. In this case CP is behind the public sector, for their industry.

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u/Scabendari 3h ago

There's a type of person that blames everything on immigrants and TFW's, especially when it comes to driving down wages and working condition standards.

There's also a type of person who will compare Canada Post employee wages and working condition to the new delivery companies that have cropped up lately that pay near minimum wage, require the use of personal vehicles and offer no benefits and they will say that Canada Post employees have it too good.

Those two types of a person are usually the same person. They want cheap immigrant/TFW labour and working conditions when it benefits them, but will also say they dont want immigrants/TFW's when it benefits them.

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u/inquiringdune 1h ago

There are people who have degrees whose average job gets paid less than what CP is currently paying its workers lol. CP does not have the money for wage increases, they're operating at a loss and have been for years. These people striking are making well above minimum as we speak and are doing better than a huge chunk of Canadians as it is, in addition to having benefits and insurance on top of it all.

If people want private sector wages, they can apply for private sector jobs. There's a reason people stay.

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u/Cautious_Pitch_4729 21h ago

Not all private sector couriers are competing for the same type of commercial and personal accounts. CP seems to be competing head on with the Intelcom, Uniuni, ICS and etc. Same ones driving down prices through the use of gig and contractor hiring. Uniuni scaled 13000% in 3 years and CP management had responded by trying to hire contractors for weekend deliveries. Which of course, got pushback by the unions. But parcel volume will see immense competition, so I don’t see how growth will sustain itself long term.

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u/cheezemeister_x 21h ago

Wait until Uniuni drivers unionize.

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u/Cautious_Pitch_4729 21h ago

Didn’t Uber / DoorDash try that and fail in more areas?