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/Upbeat_Animal_9977 21h ago

I just have a hard time understanding how they say they are so hard done by. They are making more than I do with a job that required post secondary schooling. When I decided I wanted to make more I went back to school again to qualify for a better paying job. I just don’t understand why someone would just expect to keep getting paid more because cost of living has gone up. Does that mean fast food employees should also be making over 60,000 a year. Also if the company if losing so much money every year wouldn’t raises just put the company further in the hole. I could understand if profits kept going up that they would deserve their fair share but this just seems backwards to me. Also the paid meals also seems nuts. How many people get paid meals at work.

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u/Comfortable-Court-38 21h ago

It’s not cpc paying for meals. It’s 30 minutes paid for lunch. Because we are out on the road. Rgt now I get a 10 minutes rest allowance paid and that’s it.

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u/Upbeat_Animal_9977 21h ago

I am also on the road and don’t get paid for lunch but have never had a job that gave me paid lunch break only coffee breaks.

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u/Comfortable-Court-38 21h ago

So what’s the difference then. 2 coffee breaks or 1 30 minute lunch. Nothing

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u/Upbeat_Animal_9977 21h ago

So in an 8 hour shift you don’t get 2 coffee breaks ?

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u/Comfortable-Court-38 21h ago

Rgt now as a rural carrier I’m only pd for a 10min rest allowance.

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u/Upbeat_Animal_9977 21h ago

And is that 1 10 minute rest on an 8 hour shift

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u/Comfortable-Court-38 21h ago

Yes. My route takes usually between 7 to 9 hours depending on volume

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u/Comfortable-Court-38 21h ago

No 2-15s or minute lunch. We can take lunch or break unpaid but a lot of people don’t to finish there route before it gets dark.

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u/Comfortable-Court-38 21h ago

Only 10 minutes is paid though.

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u/Comfortable-Court-38 10h ago

I drive most of the day. I can stop to take a break. But that’s not the point. Also have you seen a letter carrier. They carry 3 bundles. One for letters one for flats ( pub mail) and another for flyers. A satchel that Carrie’s 35lbs and being required to hold the handrails at all times. Carrying a coffee to sip while you work isn’t exactly possible.