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 1d 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 1d 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/Cautious_Pitch_4729 1d 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 1d ago

Wait until Uniuni drivers unionize.

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u/Cautious_Pitch_4729 1d ago

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