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Canada Post Is In The Black Again

 
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Posted 04/03/2015   4:47 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add lithograving to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
According to this article in the Toronto Star, Canada Post
achieved an operating profit of $299 million for 2014.
And surprisingly $238 million came from the letter-mail service.
I would have thought that the parcel service would be the
most profitable.
Wonder if these numbers include Purolator courier service
since Canada Post controls 90% of that company.


http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...-walkom.html
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Posted 04/03/2015   5:28 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add CanadaStamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I like Canada Post. Not overwhelmed with its philatelic service but the main line service is top notch.
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Posted 04/03/2015   5:30 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Hal to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The USPS could learn something from that!
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Posted 04/03/2015   5:52 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add CanadaStamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
There is IMHO way too much political involvement and anti-competition constraint on USPS. They can't operate like a business and they can't charge what the services cost. In that situation, nobody has a right to complain about how they operate - with apologies.
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Posted 04/03/2015   6:46 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add BeeSee to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Yes litho, the piece I read in the Vancouver Sun said Purolator was included in the profit.
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Posted 04/03/2015   7:30 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add lithograving to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Wow, BC.
You read The Sun?

If it's anything like the Toronto Sun
then I much rather stick with The Star.
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Posted 04/03/2015   7:52 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add BeeSee to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
funny thing litho, but the Vancouver Sun is the "serious" newspaper in Vancouver - the Vancouver Province is the tabloid.
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Posted 04/03/2015   8:23 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add CanadaStamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
BeeSee - people in the West Coast have their serious side? How can that be - when you have summer in winter. And all that ocean. And mountains. And Stanley Park. And the Granville Market. Surely you are leading us on.
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Posted 04/04/2015   10:29 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wert to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

I would go as far as to say, I bet BeeSee has never bought a pair of snow boots....
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Posted 04/04/2015   10:36 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add BeeSee to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

Quote:
I would go as far as to say, I bet BeeSee has never bought a pair of snow boots....


BeeSee grew up in QC so he certainly did!
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Posted 04/04/2015   10:37 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wert to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Good answer my friend...
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Posted 04/04/2015   10:42 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add BeeSee to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Wert, I did leave them behind when I came out in '89
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Posted 04/04/2015   10:58 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wert to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Bugger...
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Posted 04/04/2015   6:32 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Puzzler to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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There is IMHO way too much political involvement and anti-competition constraint on USPS. They can't operate like a business and they can't charge what the services cost. In that situation, nobody has a right to complain about how they operate - with apologies.


It would be nice to see them operate as a business, free of the politicak constraints that seem to bind them now. I think US citizens would enjoy a much more approachable Post office.


As for Canada Post, well, lots of parcels costing way too much, rather than small packet type of items available for Canaddians really does draw at the purse strings a bit.

Delivery is great as far as I am concerned and counter service depends on the practised skills of the staff involved and the friendliness of the customers themselves of course. You get what you give nasically. Friendly gets friendly.

A change in personal stamps could be that each year the stamps are numbered with the year ( 2012, 2013, 2014, etc.) in small print. Nothing major to creak the wheels of Canadian politics of course.

Regular designs wuld be appreciated a bit larger, the whole stamp that is.

I do love all the various cancels and postmarks and new labels (collectible with POCONs), Xpress and General labels (POCONs again) and the new ettiquettes.

Leather and whips are Not necessary at postal counters I feel though.

Thank you, back to my dungeon.
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Posted 04/04/2015   6:40 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add lithograving to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Puzzler, you sound like a happy camper.

Good for you.
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