Busted: Ten Myths about the Canada Post Cuts
By special delivery, facts that debunk bogus reasons for worse service at higher costs.
Myth #1: Canada Post service cuts and cost increases are necessary.
Fact: On Dec. 11, 2013 Canada Post's management announced, without warning either the public or the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, that home delivery for five million Canadians would be cut, there would be at least 8,000 layoffs, and letter costs would increase from 63 cents to a dollar.
As many have pointed out, Canada Post's reasons for worse service at a higher cost are bogus, based around half-truths and flat out fabrications.
Myth #2: Canada Post says it is no longer profitable.
Fact: Since the mid-1990s Canada Post has been profitable every single year -- except in 2011 when the company locked out 50,000 of its workers in an effort to weaken the union and its contract. In that time, Canada Post has fed over a billion dollars into the public purse.
http://www.thetyee.ca/Opinion/2014/02/05/Ten-Myths-about-Canada-Post-Cuts/