A recent article in the respected Foreign Policy website declares that US Government is prepping the United States Postal System for privatization. Is a similar phenomenon happening in Canada?
Is Canada Post going to Privatize?
Recommended Gloves for Prairie Canada Post Delivery Agents
The Prairies in Canada are cold, real cold. Winter can bring on temperatures of -35 Celsius and if you add the windchill factor, can feel like -53.
Canada Post Prairie delivery agents are expected to deliver in wind, snow, heat, slush, cold, or rain. The only exception is a nuclear meltdown. Almost whatever the environmental challenge is, Canada Post delivery agents are prepared.
Except when it comes to gloves. Delivering mail and flyers in subzero temperatures is a niche market–one that no large scale manufacturer has tackled. There is no be all to end all solution yet–though Delivery Agents are experimenting every day to try and find the answer.
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This is the 2019 Prairie Winter boots recommendation edition.
Canada Post Deliver Agents work in a variety of weather conditions and in every season. For many, over 5 hours a day is spent in the great outdoors.
The conditions mean that a delivery agent must continually adjust their gear.
The Canada Post Corporation supplies almost all of the equipment except for boots and gloves. They provide an allowance for each employee to buy these pieces.
Continue reading “Recommended Boots for Canada Post Delivery Agents”Canada Post Back to Work Legislation Version 2
The proposed Bill C-89: a better solution than the last one. Likely illegal, but perhaps the best choice among bad choices.
The Canadian Government is putting an end to the Canada Post strike with Bill C-89. These Bills have become a ritual in their dance with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.
Continue reading “Canada Post Back to Work Legislation Version 2”Canada Post’s Delivery Software Needs a Serious Update
Canada Post has many problems with its employees. One of the greatest tensions is not with the President, nor with its directors, or even with its supervisors. It has to do with a piece of software.
Specifically, a piece of software that calculates the routes for every delivery agent across Canada Post’s national delivery system. Historically, this is called the Letter Carrier Route Measurement System. Since approximately 2010, it has been ported to a third-party piece of software.
The route system is seriously flawed and has cost the corporation almost a billion dollars in lost productivity and revenue. The calculations have caused serious erosion of trust between employees and management, unjust firings and dismissals, and the creation of routes with some that exceed over 20 km a day in walking. As covered in a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation report, the length of such routes is causing fatigue and injuries.
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