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Martin Settle Sep 25, 2025

Canada Post is a service, not a consumer product. The idea that it operates at a "loss" is stupid. It's like saying schools operate at a loss; hospitals operate at a loss; roads operate at a loss; sewers operates at a loss.

We pay for public services collectively, because they are simply needed for our society for function and for everyone to have (relatively) equal access to participate in culture/society/democracy.

Stop reducing necessary services to an income statement!
#cdnpoli #canadapost

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AskPippa🇨🇦Sep 25, 2025

@Martin My question for people is: how often do you send letters by snail mail? A paper birthday card instead of an email greeting? Pay bills by cheque sent via post? Receive most if not all bills by post? Reduced use means something needs to change. Canada Post lost $1.3-billion just last year alone— a number that’s been increasing each year. That’s a lot of lost tax payer money. Not sure what the best changes should be, but it’s not really sustainable at this point.

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Martin Settle

@AskPippa I'd never argue that there isn't room for altering systems and services to make it more efficient and sustainable (maybe even "appropriate", given the cultural and technological changes that have happened in the last 40 years). However, those kinds of transformations should not be premised on the idea that a universal postal/communications service should operate as profitable or even break-even

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Scary Austin Sep 26, 2025

@Martin @AskPippa

Over in the US, the postal service is a lifeline for rural communities. People depend on it for their medications and other essentials. Just another way the regime is screwing its own voters, as well as the rural people who didn't vote for this.

I'm from the country myself. There would have been no service out there that anybody could *afford* without the public postal service. It's loss making to serve rural communities.