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Canada Post Forced Back To Work

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 Posted 06/26/2011  12:06 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add coinmandan to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
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 Posted 06/26/2011  10:41 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add tamarin to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I'm glad to see it over. I have a bunch of recently graded ICCS coins stuck in transit. For some strange reason they mailed them back on the eve of the lockout. They're almost all UNC Victoria large cents I've bought here and there in the last year. I didn't pay more than $30 for any one of them. I'm hoping for some MS-63's but who knows? It's amazing what you can pick up if you only get around.
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 Posted 06/27/2011  04:20 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Dottir to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I just read the news that they'll all be back on the job on Tuesday.

I'm glad for those of you waiting for mail and package deliveries hung up in the strike and lockout.

I wonder how much of a backlog of International mail is stuck and built up by now. Overwhelming I'll bet
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 Posted 06/27/2011  12:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Ugly to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Well expect it to be slow for a while. Personally I didn't expect it to end this way. I fully expected the Tories to just back off and let it go. Now that they haven't, I would suggest the union is in line for a proper hammering with the arbitrator because the Union execs are too stupid and greedy to make a reasonable offer that might get chosen over Canada Post's.
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 Posted 06/27/2011  12:12 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add flotsam to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
wow thanks for the update. I was wondering what was going to happen.`

I heard a starting position at Canada Post was $21 / hour. Not bad work if you can get it for someone without a university degree.
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 Posted 06/27/2011  1:05 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add littlemoney to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Canadian consumers and businesses can expect to start receiving mail on Tuesday, June 28.

Post offices that were closed will start to reopen on Tuesday and resume regular operations.

All mailboxes will be unsealed starting on Monday and ready to receive mail as soon as possible.
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 Posted 06/29/2011  5:49 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Dottir to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Landlords should be happy. Those who were receiving rent monies, and others receiving payments direct to them for disability and welfare recipients did NOT get their monies/cheques and had to wait until the mail was working again, hoping this would happen before rent due date was passed. Recipients however, could pick theirs up at their local offices serving them IF they had transport to do so.

Landlords are not obliged to accommodate mail strikes when their rent is due. Most would, but some would be swift with eviction notices for late/non payment of rent due on time. Mind you, it could be a good opportunity to try and turf really bad tenants

You'd think places vitally dependent on people receiving via snailmail - whatever - like survival money - pensions, disabilities, assistance, etc, would have an established alternate plan to fall back on immediately when short notice, or no notice, events come down , simply because "strikes and poop CAN and DOES happen swiftly sometimes. Its just how it is.

As to wages. I've never made sense out of how people decide what wages should be paid for what work. They're all over the place and seems to not have much to do with types of work, work experience or skills and educational training.
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 Posted 06/30/2011  12:30 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add MrCanada to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The question to me is how relevant is the post office. I use it only for some checks apart from this I find the curiors cheaper. It;s cheaper for an envelope but not for packages.
This should be privatised .
In my own opinion.
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 Posted 06/30/2011  01:11 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add wrestling_135 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank goodness, I am still waiting for a business transaction lol They took my money and held onto it... I don't like that!
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 Posted 06/30/2011  09:04 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Ugly to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I'm actually against privatizing the post office. Only a Crown Corp can reasonably be forced to provide service to the middle of nowhere like they are. Couriers to rural areas are not only NOT CHEAP they are inconsistent.

This is not England, Canada is a truly massive piece of real estate with a low population. Only the cities would get decent service under privatization and the last thing this country needs is another drop in a core service that many rely on. What I want to see is Canada Post and it's employees concentrating on their core services and then privatize the non core services under biddable contracts. Their logistics division is actually quite good and their previous acquisition of Purolator got them in the game as far as competing with couriers. Yes there are changes to be made but I don't agree with a blanket sell off in this case. Where it made perfect sense to spin off Petro Canada, it's not the same with the Post Office.

I've lived all over this country and participated in it's communities from Wrecked Beach to months of darkness and meals of codfish. I'm confident that the tools are in place to make the Post office relevant provided we don't all vote orange next election.
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