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AA>Canada Post workers could strike again. If they do, the public will see red

Mostly in recent years I have more and more gotten away from physical
mailings. A lot of my Bills and Banking info and such is online now,
often just done without my permission - if you give them an eMail
address they assume you can do banking online - but it can be handy.

Mostly just Government stuff is still mailed to me, tax stuff and
license renewals and such..

But the post office has been working hard to alienate customers for
a long time. Many years ago when I saw the cost of stamps increase
by about 400% over a couple of years, I reduced my annual mailings
from something like 60 letters to about 8.  Now it's 2 or 3..
How much did they make on that?

And this was before you could do most things online so I was just
cutting down on mailings, not moving it to eMail which is a lot
easier to do these days.

Today Canada Post is basically bankrupt and only keeps running
because of thier semi-government corporation setup.

If they were a regular business they would do something like go
to 3 day a week delivery to community boxes - split the city in
two and deliver to each half the 'other' days so you have one
worker doing most of what 2 do today. There's an extra day in
there so maybe they need a part timer for one day a week.

Then they should concentrate on parcel delivery at a reasonable
price because that's where the money really is these days..

But this will never happen because their union is out of their
minds, wanting them to hire More people rather than laying some
off to save the business.

It makes me think about many years ago when I was working in
a grocery store chain and the union had cut the work week down
from 40 hours to 37 hours and was working on a new contract
demanding a 35 hour week, plus higher pay, more paid holidays
and other extras.

You could almost see them smiling and rubbing their hands together
looking for more things to ask for.

But grocery store chains are owned by People, not the government,
and they had watched their profits drop from about 1.5% to even
less so, when the smiling union guys walked into the negotiation
meeting, the company just said, no extras, no raises for 2 years,
and we are going back to a 40 hour work week.

The union laughed and said, well you can expect a long strike!

And the company people said no, that's not happening.. Sign the
contract or we are shutting down the entire chain of about 80
stores.

The union signed the contract.

You can probably tell I'm not a big fan of unions. I thought they
were great when I got my first raise in my first job, but over
the years I saw them do things I didn't much like. I was a hard
worker and 3 times the company gave me merit raises above what the
union contract called for, and that got me threatened by the union
for setting production records and making everyone else look bad..

Worse, others saw what I was doing and started working harder and
they were rewarded for it as well, and the last thing the unions
want is people being paid for what they actually do rather than for
just showing up for work most days.. The more work people do, the
fewer people you need to do it, and the fewer people there are to
pay union dues..

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