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Should Canada Post make money? NDP’s new leader Avi Lewis doesn’t think so
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But it’s a public service. So of course…. Ain’t it that obvious?
Not for profit is fine, but it also shouldn’t loose $1 billion a year
Should Canada post burn money? Have you see our budget? If it was your household budget, what would you do?
Shouldn’t need to make money necessarily but there should certainly be an upper limit on how much it can lose
I don’t think the issue is making money. It’s not losing money.
What an atrocious headline. I realize that this may be semantics, but Canada Post hasn’t „made money“ for years. As the article points out, it had $1.3 billion in operating losses in 2024, and over $4.5 billion in losses since 2018.
>Canada Post reported about $1.3 billion in operating losses in 2024
This story repeatedly uses the word ‚losses‘ instead of ‚costs‘. It’s the cost of running a public service. What were the fire department losses same year?
Cost neutral sure? Subsidise all the remote communities sure.
It still needs to be a efficient system, it was self sustaining in the past, it needs to be changed to fit current reality.
That requires A LOT of change.
I think Canadians are on board for it not being a profit making enterprise.
But that does not mean losing billions every year is acceptable either.
Well, then we don’t need to pay all them salaries and high wages either if its to be essential service.
Losing billions a year is a far cry from being self sufficient let alone being profitable.
Resources are limited. Funds used to support Canada Post could well be used to fund healthcare. Not a business doesn’t mean no accountabilities.
As a lifelong conservative.
They don’t need to make money, but they also can’t be a black hole…
Provide the service but charge the users what it costs… we don’t need to subsidize mail delivery
While a postal service is an essential public service (hard to run a business effectively in a country without a reliable, inexpensive postal service – trust me, Argentina and many South American countries know), the postal service doesn’t have to lose money hard over fist.
That’s why I support Canada Post’s own idea of opening a Postal Bank like they have in France and many other countries.
Not only will it provide much-needed competition to the major banks, but profits can help offset losses in the mail delivery arm. Also Canada Post would no longer have to go to the government for a bailout cap-in-hand, it could finance itself.
It’s win-win-win for Canada’s economy and taxpayers, which I why I support Avi Lewis’ policy plank for a Postal Bank.
Can it not be a profitable business and be a service?
Should we be content with inefficient government corporations?
Many postal systems have gotten into very profitable banking – postal banks are quite common in Europe and Asia.
And he’s correct.
I’m so tired of these people that can’t see past their own nose as if the economy is an infinite number of closed boxes instead of a living organism. They can’t comprehend how something unprofitable can actually boost the overall economy by its sheer existence.
we should let kids deliver fliers
People should be able to bank with the post office.
This whole argument is so deeply flawed.
You can remove Canada Post’s mandate to be financially self-sustaining, but that doesn’t excuse the enormous waste in the organization. The people suggesting it seem to think that, once its a public service, we can just accept the enormous overtime pay, the archaic routing systems, or the need to modernize.
The idea that Canada Post should be perennially backstopped by taxpayer dollars treats it like a jobs program. It’s why CUPW so consistently behaves like the financial well-being of their employer has no impact on their members‘ employment: they just don’t think it should.
But the fact is that **Canada Post does not exist to provide jobs for Canada Post workers. It exists to provide a postal service to Canadians.** It can do so profitably, and it should.
Swiss Post, the public postal service for Switzerland, takes in no tax money and maintains a profitable state owned enterprise.
China Post, the public postal service for China, maintains revenue through banking services and e-commerce partnerships.
La Poste, a postal service partially owned by France, also has banking services and stays profitable.
For our public postal service, we should look around the world to see which things factor into the success of other public postal services, and we should consider doing those successful things. We don’t need to be losing 1 billion a year.
Essential for delivering junk mail? Huh? That’s what my mail box is full of all the time.
Definitely not make profits. They service areas where 3rd party couriers like FedEx and UPS won’t service due to profit driven issues.
Translation: he wants taxpayers to fill the billion dollar hole every year.
I don’t know, should schools make money? should the fire department make money?
Do people want to continue paying for door to door mail service or do they want lower taxes or other services ?
This is NDP trying to save government jobs. Not actually using tax dollars well.
Im in my 40s and have not had door to door service my entire adult life. Most havnt if you don’t have a higher price home in a city center.
This is where NDP will lose people.
If they said we are cutting this and putting it 100 % into local transit they would be better off. This is a losing issue and NDP will keep liberal voters liberal.
It’s a public crown corp, supposed to keep the business afloat and offer the best price/value for the service.
That doesn’t mean they need to chase high profit, also doesn’t mean they can constantly lose billions of dollars a year.
It’s goal should be revenue neutral. Not make and not cost taxpayers.
Canada Post has a cross-country postal infrastructure that reaches they very furthest regions of the country. If dismantled, this type of infrastructure won’t be rebuilt. The only way to further take advantage of it and innovate on it is to maintain and invest into it.
Canada needs to changed to a public service and not a crown corporation. Yes, changes definitely need to be made and stop some of the bleeding. But it is a public service that all Canadians should have the right to have access to (to some degree). And yes, if needed tax money may have to go into it.