Canadian Mail Service on Strike

[bdc30]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/06/15/canada.postal.lockout/index.html?hpt=hp_bn2

Just fyi to anyone who is expecting a package from or thinking of sending something to the great white north -- our postal service essentially shut down today.

The workers have been in a strike position for a few weeks and have been doing rotating shutdowns, but today the management locked them out and stopped delivery altogether.

 

[TheDudeAbides]

Canada has mail service?

 

[JNT]

The polar bears, and beavers work together to bring it to our humble igloos.

 

[Hendy]

looks like i got some smokin to do.

 

[jmatkins]

Crap I have a package un transi.......

 

[GoingPostal]

Well that sucks, so are they going to hire scabs, the US got lot of people looking for work

 

[Stogiecidal]

Well that sucks, so are they going to hire scabs, the US got lot of people looking for work

If they are former USPS employees I bet you they can show these bastages a thing or two on how real postal workers get'er done...

 

[bdc30]

yeah except the USPS loses billions of dollars a year while Canada Post runs a profitable business...

http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2010/pr10_049.htm

http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/aboutus/corporate/annualreport.jsf

 

[TravelingJ]

If they are former USPS employees I bet you they can show these bastages a thing or two on how real postal workers get'er done...

Really? The US Postal workers that I know, aren't the most motivated of individuals.

 

[Stogiecidal]

I guess since moving and having to spend my lunch at the depot for 2 weeks straight watching how the workers operate averaging 30-45 minutes to receive 1 letter has left a bitter taste in my mouth....throw into the mix that I have paid to have my mail forward and still having to bounce back and forth to Oakville to pick up mail :argh:

AND to alleviate porcessing delays CP rerouted mail/parcels to different hubs....I have a parcel sitting in Montreal and not Toronto....

End rant lol

 

[Jfire]

I've actually had really good luck with my carriers. Helps with a atta boy at Xmas and cold drinks in the summer!

 

[GoingPostal]

Really? The US Postal workers that I know, aren't the most motivated of individuals.

They must be close to retirement, lot of the old guard hate the changes going on in the post office right now.

 

[Stogiecidal]

They must be close to retirement, lot of the old guard hate the changes going on in the post office right now.

That couldn't be closer to the truth in this scensrio...one of the main points that the union is stressing is the modernization of the larger hubs. So prior to the lockout the union was opersting rolling walk-outs of the these specifc hubs first...

What can you do....at the end of the day itis what it is....

 

[OB-Left]

Canada has mail service?

Yea, they use sled-dogs... don't they?

 

[Stogiecidal]

I think back to work legislation is on the horizon....

http://www.cupw.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/13235/la_id/1.htm

http://www.cupw.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/13236/la_id/1.htm

 

[orangedog]

Yea, they use sled-dogs... don't they?

better kibble? is that all this is aboot?

at least those sled dogs don't have to worry about rattlesnake bites... grass is greener, eh?

 

[ciggy]

That sucks!
Bill company will love all thoes late payment fees your gonna get hit with!

 

[smokemifugotem]

On my way over hendy...good thing I dragged my heals...that would have been stuck in time if not