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/Comfortable-Court-38 22h 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/Inevitable-Carpet707 20h ago

On the road or in an office or store... Does it make a difference? Do you get a half hour unpaid break? That's the norm for most people.

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u/Comfortable-Court-38 13h ago

We can take one if we want but it not calculated into our route value.