The Way It Is
The Canadian Union of Postal Employees is a militant union impressed with their self-obsessed mandate to cradle their members from first-hiring to ultimate-retiring. The issues revolving about postal delivery and the comfort and safety of Canada's posties are front-and-center. The issues with respect to reliability of postal delivery, time-lapse between posting and delivery, another issue altogether, one with which the CUPE union is unengaged.
Strike action and the threat of same once struck fear in the hearts of small business and the consumers of postal delivery. Now those threats strike contempt in the minds of what is left of the consumers of postal delivery. Although it still is a frightful nuisance and a money-loser for those small business owners whose business success is heavily reliant on Canada Post being on the job - performing under par, but performing.
If you live rurally and have a mailbox erected upon a post you're given explicit instructions as to which side of the road the mailbox should be placed upon, how distant from the road, and in what kind of condition the box and its post are expected to be. Anything that deviates from precise instructions represents as a potential danger to the postal deliverer, even those on contract.
If you live in a newish subdivision built in the last twenty years, you will have your mail delivered to a group box, located on the street you live on, somewhat close to your abode, and you will have your own personal key with which to unlock that postal box so you may retrieve your mail. You can have mail halted at an exorbitant cost if you plan to go away on holidays; the box spares you that.
If, as has happened to some, there are stairs leading to a notional porch upon which sits the mailbox affixed to a wall, and there is no railing, although even to the safety-minded, none might be feasible nor required, think again. Your mail could be cut off from home delivery and you be required to pick up your mail daily at the closest sub-post office.
For which you will be charged a weekly fee, despite that the mail carrier is no longer responsible for delivering in his house-to-house route, to your particular house. Each mail carrier delivers mail to approximately 800 homes. Each mail carrier gets to know his route intimately. He knows where dogs live, and which might pose a threat.
If he feels unsafe, even from the threatening snarls of a 5-lb toy dog, a letter of reprimand and warning will go out to the offending household, warning that the dog must be kept well away from the postie, else no mail, chums. Canada Post, in delivering our mail, is performing a huge benefit to Canadian society, one it declares society should never lose sight of.
Canada Post and CUPE appear to forget, from time to time, that they are servants of the public whose taxes are somehow involved, and who begrudge having to face postal-stamp increases on a regular basis for a Crown Corporation which is now earning a profit, rather than presenting as a break-even operation.
They appear oblivious to the reality that fewer and fewer individuals and businesses are using those post boxes and those stamps, preferring the options of email and the Internet, along with private package-delivery companies whose record of punctual, safe delivery is far superior to Canada Post's.
Strike action and the threat of same once struck fear in the hearts of small business and the consumers of postal delivery. Now those threats strike contempt in the minds of what is left of the consumers of postal delivery. Although it still is a frightful nuisance and a money-loser for those small business owners whose business success is heavily reliant on Canada Post being on the job - performing under par, but performing.
If you live rurally and have a mailbox erected upon a post you're given explicit instructions as to which side of the road the mailbox should be placed upon, how distant from the road, and in what kind of condition the box and its post are expected to be. Anything that deviates from precise instructions represents as a potential danger to the postal deliverer, even those on contract.
If you live in a newish subdivision built in the last twenty years, you will have your mail delivered to a group box, located on the street you live on, somewhat close to your abode, and you will have your own personal key with which to unlock that postal box so you may retrieve your mail. You can have mail halted at an exorbitant cost if you plan to go away on holidays; the box spares you that.
If, as has happened to some, there are stairs leading to a notional porch upon which sits the mailbox affixed to a wall, and there is no railing, although even to the safety-minded, none might be feasible nor required, think again. Your mail could be cut off from home delivery and you be required to pick up your mail daily at the closest sub-post office.
For which you will be charged a weekly fee, despite that the mail carrier is no longer responsible for delivering in his house-to-house route, to your particular house. Each mail carrier delivers mail to approximately 800 homes. Each mail carrier gets to know his route intimately. He knows where dogs live, and which might pose a threat.
If he feels unsafe, even from the threatening snarls of a 5-lb toy dog, a letter of reprimand and warning will go out to the offending household, warning that the dog must be kept well away from the postie, else no mail, chums. Canada Post, in delivering our mail, is performing a huge benefit to Canadian society, one it declares society should never lose sight of.
Canada Post and CUPE appear to forget, from time to time, that they are servants of the public whose taxes are somehow involved, and who begrudge having to face postal-stamp increases on a regular basis for a Crown Corporation which is now earning a profit, rather than presenting as a break-even operation.
They appear oblivious to the reality that fewer and fewer individuals and businesses are using those post boxes and those stamps, preferring the options of email and the Internet, along with private package-delivery companies whose record of punctual, safe delivery is far superior to Canada Post's.
Labels: Government of Canada, Life's Like That, Society
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