Canada Post Strike Looming
 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/...rs-strike.html

would it be as bad as Translink or CoV waste collections strike?

omg what will we do without canada post lol

I know this seems trivial to a lot of people. But this is a REAL bitch for a lot of us in Small Business.

Many companies can not receive electronic payments. Many customers can not receive faxed statements. Many of us actually really heavily rely on the post.

they seem to have a strike every other year

^ really? Never noticed..was a full lock-out with no service? or perhaps it only lasted a week?

edit: another article said their last strike was in 1997 that lasted two weeks.

You sir have no idea what you are talking about....

Also, YOU'RE a fucking Moron.

If they go on strike, won't there be a giant mess of mail to be sorted when they come back?
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No where near as bad. It'll affect some small businesses and people that rely on gov't assistant cheques.

Personally it won't affect me at all, I get all my statements electronically now, payments by direct deposit/wires, for filming we use private couriers to send dailies between studios and at the brokerage firm the majority of our clients have opted for electronic delivery of statements and confirms now.

same with our company....we use private couriers for all of our mail. Easily tracked. Can't trust canada post with sensitive material.

btw, DHL got bought out a week ago....

If canada post goes on strike, the only thing that would affect me is my samples from PG....

shit i get alot of stuff delivered by and from canada post. and my pension cheques come from canad post. :(

I wouldn't say that this strike is trivial because it doesn't affect you personally. It affects a crazy amount of buisnesses/people and it will create a giant backlog.

Yeah. I'll go from spending 3 - 5 days a month dealing with receivables to probably closer to 10 if I have to individually notify everyone, given our system is not set up to deal with email. So all of that will have to be done manually.

I'm not a fan of this at all. :(

communication should be a necessary service that shouldnt be allowed to strike.

like law enforcement and other similar things. these things are necessary for our society to function properly.

This is why I have mine set up for direct deposit (not pension, but all government cheques are the same). You get your money one day earlier too.

they claimed they will issue social assistance cheques in advance this month and possibly get volunteers to send out future cheques if need be.

I know this is bad, especially having this mentality..

But, the first thing I thought about was a further delay of my Stella stuff that I ordered :moderatorban:


On another note, I always figured the postal workers get paid pretty well. Especially for doing such a simple task especially when they don't need any education. My friend worked for Canada Post two summers ago and got paid $16.XX starting for working in the post office.

That seems pretty damn good to me?

just don't hire replacements

i work for canada post as a letter carrier. the biggest issues seems to be that canada post wants to roll back alot of things for new workers getting their fulltime status after this contract is signed. their wages, benefits etc will be signifcantly be less then mine (i'm already a fulltime worker) so this will eventually cause a division within the work force and the union. it happened to safeway years ago and we don't want that to happen to us. i heard this will get ugly as we are miles apart regarding a new contract

Sorry for my ignorance, but how does this cause a division between you guys?

And what happened with Safeway?

They are basically hiring new employee's which are not part of the union so they don't have to pay them as much and don't get the same benefits. They are trying to phase out the union in the long run that's what it's about.

oh no wonder why i got my pension yesterdayy. lol

I read this and the first thing I had to check is if your bdate is listed lol

Orphans/children's benefit. My mom contributed to CPP before she died, and I get to (sadly) riep the benefits till i'm 25.

ohhhh, I get it.
it's a sneaky little plot to get rid of the union.

sorry to hear that man :( at least she was thinking about you. I have had a number of friends that were not so lucky in a manner of speaking.