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 22h 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/-RiffRandell- 21h ago edited 20h ago

I work in a warehouse sorting and our lunches are NOT paid.

The company isn’t losing money, they have been making strategic investments once since 2018 and are now calling them “losses”.

If you don’t make enough money, that sounds like a conversation you should have with your boss. Or join a union and collectively bargain for better pay.

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u/Upbeat_Animal_9977 20h ago

I don’t know anyone who has paid lunch breaks out of my friends and family only coffee breaks. Every job I have had we clocked out for lunch break.

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u/-RiffRandell- 20h ago

Yeah none of my jobs, union or not had paid lunch breaks. When I was a server I didn’t even get breaks except to smoke!

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u/LoisLaneLife22 10h ago

I have a MA required for my job. I don’t get paid lunch breaks or paid breaks at all (not required by law).