It’s nice to see that we no longer trust privatization as a the magic wand that solves public institution problems.
That said I think the 52% support for non-union gig work in Canada Post is indicative of the mindset that needs shifting if Canada is to change course in a way that makes most people better off long term.
Source: https://angusreid.org/canada-post-privatization-strike-service-disruption-vote-union/
38% of people are brain dead.
More like indoctrinated into self-harming beliefs. No one is born with an opinion or understanding on privatization. 🥹
Majority support for non union gig workers? Allow me to present my middle finger you no solidarity having, short-sighted worthless fucks.
That’s a terrible fucking idea.
Privatization in general doesn’t need to be a disaster either as long as good rules are setup, allowing and pushing for competition.
Any core functions for a country (you know, water, electricity, internet) should be under much, much harsher rules to ensure people get good quality of whatever the service is
Internet, for example, is a shitshow in Canada. I’ll get twice more for twice less in Mexico with less interruption. Yes, Rogers, you incompetent idiots, I’m looking at you. Telus isn’t much better but at least slightly more competent on average
Interesting, if a bit tangential, that 72% support reducing delivery frequency while Canada Post is trying to increase delivery frequency by doing weekend deliveries.
Personally, I don’t understand how many things can be so urgent that it’s profitable to deliver as frequently as possible. Surely a single specialised courier for critically fast deliveries (e.g. life saving medicine) would entirely saturate the market.
That’s reducing mail delivery. I think everyone is on the same page about increasing package deliveries.
Packages aren’t mail? Fair enough, I guess I’m the odd one out there.
Everyone except for me might be on the same page about package deliveries, though I still don’t understand why they would be.
Such a dumb and badly run country.
Every TTC subway stop should have a post office in it. The TTC should be run 24hrs a day. You should be able to pick up your package at the post office within the TTC subway stop easily.
Post offices within the GTHA really should be walking distance for most people. Go pick your package up somewhere close by, open 24hrs.
Putting post offices in Shoppers Drug Mart isn’t too bad, but it would be better if they where in 24hr donought shops.
We need to use community postal boxes more.
We need traffic cameras to automatically ticket couriers that block traffic.
We need to get ride of this ‘independent contractor’ nonsense. It’s a scam.
But for this to happen the Fed/Prov/City and Crown Corps all need to work together…so it’ll never happen.
This is worrying, even with the majority not wanting privatization.
Lately I think the number of low IQ people has increased from ~15% to 30%
Since COVID people have been significantly stupider.
Have you come across any measurements on this?
According to Oxford long covid averages a 10 point IQ drop, other sources say mild covid resulted in a 3-6 point drop.
Interesting. We should look at country IQ averages in the coming years. Would be interesting to see how these changes affect it. A lot of people had mild illness.
I think it’s also made much more apparent when that demographic that had no interest in computers were forced to be chronically online due to the lockdowns and quickly found the anti-vaxx groups, and suddenly felt like their opinion matters and that everyone is an expert if they do a little bit of “research”.
Canada is being heavily targeted by Cambridge Analytica (whatever they’re called now), now that they’ve achieved total domination in the US. Please be careful! It starts with facebook and talk radio and gets very bad very quickly.
That’s why I’m on Lemmy. If I’m going to be indoctrinated. At least, I become even more a solid leftist.
Yeah. An older report by Angus Reid from 2019 cited here says that about 60% did not support privatization. That would put privatization support at the time at 40-something, since the union would like to make the opposite number as large as possible. So there’s perhaps some trend away from privatization.
Unless it’s for packages does anyone really need junk-mail delivery every day?
Most stuff has like a month for paying off statements and whatnot.
38 percent should go fuck themselves!
Fuck that biased title…
What do you mean?
You could have written 47% opposed privatizing some of Canada Post, the larger percentage of that group. By choosing the smaller opinion group, you make it seem like the support for privatizing some of our public service is actually the more popular opinion, when it is not.
If I saw “47% opposed privatization”, I’d be here complaining that the title is trying to make people think that the majority (53%) support privatization.
Then perhaps we all agree that quoting stats without the whole context present is misleading.
Yeah, maybe something like “Poll results on privatization of Canada Post”.
I invite everyone to post more (poll) articles with better titles so we can all be more informed and engaged. ☺️
Interesting. I specifically wanted to highlight the worst case scenario - that the people who support privatization are just 38%. To me that’s the really important bit. But you do you.
Canada post is a service not a business. It should never be privatized.
38% of people hate their communities, and want everyone but the wealthy to suffer for the crime of being poor.
A fair proportion of our population have been absolutely hoodwinked and brainwashed by the snake-oil promises of conservatism and capitalism, both of which serve only the wealthiest 1%.
You can tell what position a publication supports when they describe slightly more than a third as if it was a majority.
Reduce mail to 3 days a week.
TBH, if it avoids privatization and saves money, I’d be happy getting mail even once a week. Nothing we get by mail is so urgent that a few extra days will destroy lives.
In cases where something is needed urgently, there’s courier, express mail, etc. as premium options. Regular “snail mail” isn’t meant to be fast.
When public services are kneecapped to be worse than their private equivalent then people stop using them and then they turn private.
Well that’s the thing, in some places snail mail is fast. UK for instance has places with delivery twice a day, meaning you can “courier” items across a city same day. The post offices in Canada turned to crap as soon as they started hacking the service down.
Our neighbourhood changed to community mailbox, the CP truck would pass my house and drop a notice “sorry we missed you” into the community mailbox because the package wouldn’t fit in the mailbox. And then leave and pass my house again. Not really a mail delivery service more of a notification for pickup service.
UK for instance has places with delivery twice a day
WTF?? What mail do you guys get that you need it delivered twice a day???
I might get something “important” (i.e. from the government) maybe a few times a month. Bills are nearly all electronic. A few packages are delivered by Canada Post, but none are urgent enough to need even a daily delivery service.
Of course, I’m only speaking for myself. Maybe there are people who still get a ton of mail, but I can’t imagine it’s the majority.
My bad, the second delivery became a cleanup delivery to deliver what they forgot or didn’t get in in the morning.
True actual multi delivery stopped in the 50s.
The UK policy is six days a week and as expedient as possible. I’m sure that is changing slowly
Canada is 9,984,670sq km with a population density of 4.5/sq km. That’s ~2.2m routes to see all Canadians 5-times a week.
The UK is 244,376sq km with a population density of 286/sq km. If there was universal coverage that’d be about ~1000 delivery-person-routes per day. So delivering a route is orders of magnitude easier, faster, and simpler for the workers at the Royal Mail.
If the UK only had once a day delivery they’d be 0.045% as efficient as thier Canadian counterparts.
EVEN WITH twice daily delivery the Royal Mail has less than 1% the efficiency of CUPW workers.
With that said, both face external (couriers) and internal (government) pressure to profit.
Ask yourself this: as a service to citizens of both countries, what other public services have to make a profit? National Defence? National Healthcare? National Police?
None do because privateers have already raped and pillaged those services for maximum profit as suppliers. So they don’t get lobbied the same - or even compared.
No, just Postal services with their well developed contact with the communities they serve are singled out to be profit centers for cash hungry politicians.
UK enters the chat with mail delivery 2x a day
Adding to the above, keep in mind that courier and express mail are useless if you live in small towns with distance to the nearest large city.
I’ve had express mail take longer to get to me than regular mail does simply because that’s how the system is set up.
I’d have no problem if urban mail took a week, while resources were used to make sure that rural service was more timely. But I also don’t know how much is spent on rural delivery vs. urban mail. I have a friend who works for Canada Post, maybe I should ask. LOL
I would rather a regulatory and subsidization approach direct aimed at targeting the high-value segments of package delivery currently making money for private competitors. Build a business plan to go head-to-head with them on their most profitable market share, but with support of the federal government. Become more sustainable by taking the profits away from UPS and FedEx.
The postal service in Denmark was opened in 1624.
It was privatized in 2009. It will shut down at the end of 2025.
Classic capitalism. Peak efficiency