Privatization is fucking horrible
this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2025
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On one hand, government postage services should be seen as a service rather than a for profit organization especially when they’re on the hook to deliver to places nobody else will.
On the other hand, it’s past time to recognize that the timely delivery of a handwritten note from one person to the next within the week is not part of the requirement of the service anymore arguably since the advent of the telephone and certainly today in the world of email, messaging, and voip.
The service should be preserved but perhaps the daily door to door service could be cut. I say this as someone who insists on paper bills.
On the other hand, it’s past time to recognize that the timely delivery of a handwritten note from one person to the next within the week is not part of the requirement of the service anymore
So, and hear me out, maybe let's make a crown corp cell/landline/fibre provider under the Canada Post umbrella so Canadians can get affordable access to modern services that have now replaced the relevance of what mail used to be.
That sounds like a good idea, essentially pivoting Canada Post towards a communications service model, which could actually help improve the infrastructure in this country compared to giving the big 3 handouts to hopefully improve infrastructure which hasn’t been working.
Better yet, have the crown corp taken over existing and future infrastructure, having 3rd parties renting time off of the crown corp could be put directly back into improvement of the system.
also someone who pays a few of their bills by mail here.
i would live to have one or two mail days per week instead of every day. i could drop my outgoing mail off at a post office if i need something to be postmarked on a specific day. the only thing i reliably receive in tge mail every day is trash; bills only come in a few times a month.
I live and die with paper bills. If it doesn’t get into my physical inbox, it’ll never get paid.
But I’d be perfectly happy with weekly delivery too!
We aren't there yet. We have a population that still had old folk that can't operate a computer or cellphone and rely on snail mail.
Those people and many others probably shouldn’t be using a computer for that anyways with their password set to ```Snuffles1940!
Ha. It always made me laugh how some peoples passwords were guessable.
We had a coworker leave, and IT came to disable the system, but it was before centralized password management was well established. There like ah shit they didn't leave their password. I'm like its probably favourite beer brand and year they were born. Two tries later they had access. LOL.
Then some other guy I met was telling his tenant their internet password was their daughters name, and I'm like dude you shouldn't use passwords like that. His response was its the same password for everything we have, even our bank. I'm like WTF shhhh
I wonder how much cost savings will come from community boxes?