Postal Changes coming and another Stamp increase!!!!!!!

[DianneS]

I agree.that mail order on line shopping has increased exponentially, but I suspect a lot of those deliveries are made but service providers other than Canada Post. of course, that raises the question of why CP has been unable to successfully compete for that business

they always use the example of lettermail being at an all time low, but i am pretty sure that mail order shopping must be at an all time high.

they are making money, but very mis-managed and disorganized and probably wasting money like crazy on an assortment of things.

i like my door delivery, i am going to miss it!

[ColleenMGorecki]

Canada Post pulled all of the Permanent Stamps off the shelves

[SnowFlakey]

Yup, Canada Post pulled the ``P`` stamps. I went this morning to buy some and they were gone!!!!!!!!!! No More. Hasta La Vista Baby! So what are they doing with all those P stamps? Shredding them?

[lecale]

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[toban]

I have mail home delivery service. I'm sure I would get use to walking to a box. Although it is nice to open the door and grab your mail quickly. What about seniors or disabled? Especially if they don't have anyone to pick up their mail. Navigate snowy or icy sidewalks to get to the box etc.

[SnowFlakey]

They will be back on sale April 1 2014

Yes but i wanted them at 63 cents not $1.00

[beckie.c]

Canada Post pulled all of the Permanent Stamps off the shelves

I was able to pick up a 100 roll of permanent stamps at Shoppers at Lunch today. They had just gotten an email from their head office telling them to keep selling them at the moment... not sure if that will change in the next couple days or not.

[macw1960]

Managed to get 100 P stamps at the local drugstore today when I was picking up a prescription. Only payed $41.19 instead of $71.19 as I used a $30.00 prepaid Visa that I won in a contest.

[abbasgirl]

I have mail home delivery service. I'm sure I would get use to walking to a box. Although it is nice to open the door and grab your mail quickly. What about seniors or disabled? Especially if they don't have anyone to pick up their mail. Navigate snowy or icy sidewalks to get to the box etc.

It will be an inconvenient change for some people. But there are already a lot of community boxes. So it seems that people who live in those areas are managing OK.

[TaraF]

[abbasgirl]

We aren't losing the mail service though, Tara. They're just trying to make it more efficient. They have to do something because CP is losing more and more business as more and more people are doing things online. It's happening everywhere and it really doesn't have anything to do with Harper. The old ways of doing things just aren't sustainable anymore.

[madchives]

this gov't has cut so much from the cbc and now postal service.
both were originally under the gov'ts care ---- notice anything?

when the state grabs your essential services, what is next?
kidding sort of, but am not amused.
have no idea how cpc can save it's self but if people complain as much
as i do about this,,,
could live with 2 or 3 deliveries a week, sorry wob

[SarahS83]

I saw an interview on the new last night that had me laughing. An economist was saying if CP go private then everyone could compete for the business and it will be cheaper. Somehow I don't think UPS will send a letter from ON to BC for less than 63C. They also said if they go private the price of stamps should fall by about 10%. Well when they are up at $1 that still make stamps 90C so Canadian consumers still pay more and will now always pay more for worse service.

[trishka]

I'm just wondering where they plan on putting these community boxes. I've recently moved to a condo, but I think about my old neighbourhood. I lived on a long street with very little space for sidewalks to begin with. Most areas that already have these boxes are newer developments and where the post box would be located was actually considered during the development of the community. Dropping a post box in some areas is just not practical.

[abbasgirl]

this gov't has cut so much from the cbc and now postal service.
both were originally under the gov'ts care ---- notice anything?

when the state grabs your essential services, what is next?
kidding sort of, but am not amused.
have no idea how cpc can save it's self but if people complain as much
as i do about this,,,
could live with 2 or 3 deliveries a week, sorry wob

Businesses need daily delivery, so if they went with 2-3 deliveries per week instead of the community mail box option, they would be losing a lot more business. It would also effect a lot more CP employees if they cut back the service.