Now is the time to draw inspiration from wherever we can, and stand with workers while they fight the employer-led race to the bottom.
Now is the time to draw inspiration from wherever we can, and stand with workers while they fight the employer-led race to the bottom.
Any solutions as to how NOT to lose $1,000,000 per day?
Didn’t think so. Let’s keep delvering junk mail door-to-door!
How much money is the military losing per day? As far as I can tell they aren’t bringing in any income at all!
Without the military what’s stopping Trump from invading?
I don’t think government services need to turn a profit to exist. Including the military.
The military isn’t a public service. It’s the fundamental exercise of the government’s sovereignty over the country.
Canada Post doesn’t need to turn a profit either. But it shouldn’t be losing billions of dollars to deliver junk mail door to door 5 days a week when it could deliver weekly to community mailboxes (supplemented by home delivery for those in need) and provide the same vital service at a fraction of the cost.
Defence is absolutely a service the government is providing the country. Define it however you will, that is the nature of the thing.
As for the rest, everyone keeps banging on about junk mail but I seem to get other things in the mail regularly as well.
Call defence a service if you want. The point is that it doesn’t vary with supply and demand. The government decides how much it wants to spend on defence and that’s the budget.
Mail is different. If everyone sent 10x as much mail as we do now there wouldn’t be a problem. But that’s not the world we live in. Mail is in steep decline from 5.5 billion letters 2 decades ago to 2 billion today and dropping. Most of that mail is sent by businesses who are increasingly looking for ways to further cut it back.
The company I work for spends millions of dollars a year sending out mail, much of it to customers who have opted out of receiving mail but get it anyway because of legacy databases and slow-moving business decisions. The postal strike has a lot of managers now prioritizing the rectification of that issue. We’re going to see a huge drop in outgoing mail volumes and that will directly hit Canada Post’s bottom line.
Maybe they can deliver the junk mail!
The junk mail is one of the profits for Canada post, I personally put a sticky in my mailbox saying no junk mail. I have done a lot to avoid ads, it has not been inexpensive I have paid a lot of money to set up a system where I get very few peaces of junk mail, spam, or auto phone calls. Even though if you asked me I would have to tell you I have paid somewhere in the high hundreds (maybe $1000+) over the past ten or so years and I continue to pay lots of money (less now that I have started the buy Canadian thing) to keep me away from all the junk mail and spam the results have been priceless, Canada Post could help people with this.
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Charge $5/month for each address to not deliver any junk mail.
Paying them not to work, while paying them to work!
Circular and perpetual!