If you have door to door mail delivery, consider yourself lucky...you won't lose it.
This morning the federal government made public its vision for a renewed Canada Post. Some four million households can now rest easy that their door-to-door service will not be cut, but more than 800,000 are still out in the cold.
However, if you lost it, kiss it goodbye, says North Bay CUPW President Keith Bradford.
"We're keeping 840,000 people without equal service at Canada Post. the Liberal government is not restoring what the Harper Conservatives took away. After the Liberals took power in 2015 the conversion was still going on and those people haven't been addressed either which is disappointing from our perspective. We'd like to see all Canadians with equal service."
See: If you've lost home mail delivery, you're unlikely to get it back
Mike Palecek, National President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers isn't pleased with the announcement.
“We and many allies made Canada Post an election issue in 2015, and the Liberals were elected on a promise to restore door-to-door and to consult on a new vision for Canada Post,” Palecek says. “At least today’s announcement is clear that the service cuts will end. But for close to a million people, it breaks the promise to restore door-to-door, and gives the crown corporation little direction on some major issues.”
There is a positive says Bradford.
"The Minister stated she's mandating Canada Post to make money and take that money and reinvest it back into the company to improve service to encourage Canadians to use the service. I hope that's means something for postal banking."
But it does open a new door, says Palecek. “In discussions with CUPW, Canada Post has frequently claimed that it could not negotiate new services without government direction. Minister Qualtrough’s announcement asks the corporation to seriously explore new service options.”
