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Canada Post Issues First Corporate Social Responsibility Report

Posted by | May 15, 2008 | |

Canada Post issued its first annual Corporate Social Responsibility Report (CSR). The Report reflects the corporation’s economic, social and environmental objectives, strategies, and performance.

Some key achievements in the 2007 CSR report include:

– Recognition in Maclean’s magazine as a top 100 employer in Canada;
– A Strategic Council poll found Canada Post “the most trusted federal institution” in Canada;
– According to a Leger Marketing survey Canada Post ranked third among the 150 most-admired businesses in Quebec;
– Since 2002, Canada Post has invested more than 10 million dollars in more than 250 energy-reduction initiatives and has reduced greenhouse gas emissions from its buildings and fleet by 3 pct.
– Canada Post plans to follow LEED™ green building standards for all major new buildings and has targeted a 75 pct landfill waste diversion rate by December 2008
Employee engagement levels rose by 5 percentage points;
– Canada Post donated 1.4 pct of pre-tax profits to registered charities and not-for-profit organizations;
Through employee and corporate donations, Canada Post raised more than 2.5 million dollars for the United Way;

Canada Post faced some significant challenges in 2007. There were more than 4,000 accidents that resulted in lost time. Absenteeism is a concern; there were 14.8 lost days per employee compared to an overall national average of 9.7 days. Despite 10 years of labour peace, more than 20,000 grievances were filed in 2007. High fuel prices continue to be a concern for Canada Post and its aging infrastructure requires an investment up to USD 1.9 million to modernize.

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Canada Post undertakes rural mailbox review

Posted by | May 15, 2008 | |

Over the next several years, Canada Post is proposing to review the physical location of more than 840,000 rural mailboxes across Canada.

The move comes on the heels of nearly 2,000 safety complaints against the federal agency since 2004.

Communications officer Mario Circelli appeared before council Tuesday afternoon to talk about a new program being undertaken by Canada Post.

“Over the next number of years Canada Post will be reviewing the physical location of 843,000 rural mailboxes,” Circelli said. “Our rural country roads aren’t so quiet anymore.”

Circelli said that Bill C-45 places the onus on employee safety squarely on the shoulders of the employer. “That’s not just Canada Post, that is every business, and we have decided to take a moral responsibility.”

Circelli said the Traffic Safety Assessment Tool (TSAT) was the result of a growing problem across Canada with the delivery of mail to rural mailboxes.

Looking at a number of factors from legal restrictions to the number of lanes, shoulder width, centre line markings, traffic volume and sight distance, TSAT is a mathematical equation that can be applied across Canada to any rural mailbox to determine the suitability of its location.

According to Circelli, with TSAT there are only three possible outcomes: 1) Rural mailboxes meet the safety criteria and the customer is notified in writing, 2) Rural mailboxes fail to meet the criteria and the customer has the opportunity to move it, or 3) If the customer cannot relocate the mailbox a community mailbox or post office box may be required.

Circelli stressed that Canada Post will not cut off mail delivery to any home throughout the process.

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Potential job losses in mail, union warns

Posted by | May 6, 2008 | |

Canada Post’s new union president is warning Canadians that their mail delivery could be in jeopardy and hundreds of jobs could be lost.
In an interview with Sun Media, new Canada Post national union president Denis Lemelin accused the Conservatives and Canada Post CEO Moya Greene of attempting to deregulate postal services in Canada.
Lemelin pointed to the Harper government’s recently announced “strategic review” of Canada Post, set to examine which services should remain under the monopoly of Canada Post and which should become fair game in a competitive market.
A final report is expected in December.

Canada Post currently has a monopoly over the delivery of letters up to 500 grams to 15 million doors across the country.
Lemelin fears that deregulation could mean that Canadians in metropolitan areas might have their daily mail handled by UPS, Federal Express or Purolator.
“These private companies could decide to implement distribution centres in the greater areas and handle mail delivery for Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto,” he said.
He also warned that deregulation would result in hundreds of layoffs across Canada and an increase in stamp prices.
“The private sector would invest in the greater metropolitan areas — where it’s profitable,” he said.
“The public postal service would end up with less profitable sectors, such as rural areas.

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Canada Post set to deliver fatal blow to rural mail service

Posted by | May 3, 2008 | |

If you have a rural mailbox, walk to the end of your driveway and kiss it goodbye. Canada Post is engaged in an aggressive campaign to eliminate traditional rural mail delivery. The stupidity of the program is exceeded only by the cost.

Tens of thousands of Canadians have already had service to their rural mail boxes cut off, including 200 in Ottawa. The number nationally could reach the hundreds of thousands if Canada Post has its way.

The problem, Canada Post says, is heavy rural traffic volumes that make delivery to end-of-the-lane boxes unsafe. Rural mail carriers have filed 1,700 health and safety complaints since 2004, and Canada Post is simply putting safety first, says corporate spokesman Sachin Despande.

No one is against safety, but the magnitude of Canada Post’s response is stunningly out of proportion to the problem. There are 843,000 roadside mailboxes in Canada. The corporation is reviewing the safety of each and every one of them, using a complex series of criteria developed by three separate consulting firms.

The cost of the rural mailbox program is $500 million over three years.

Yes, that’s half a billion dollars to deal with what’s actually a relatively small number of health and safety complaints.

The post office is averaging a little over 400 driver complaints a year. More than half of those, the company acknowledges, are ergonomics-related.

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UPS Canada podcasts

Posted by | May 1, 2008 | |

Reaching out a helping hand to Canada’s small business market, UPS Canada today announced the launch of a new advice-oriented podcast series called Logistically Speaking. Hosted by Canadian small business expert, journalist and blogger, Rick Spence, the podcasts will be available for download through iTunes and other podcast directories, as well as on UPS.com.

In a pilot series of three 10- to 15-minute episodes, Logistically Speaking addresses key issues affecting the SMB market with a strong focus on helping businesses reach beyond Canada’s borders. Throughout the series, host Rick Spence interviews expert guests about hands-on issues that affect entrepreneurs – from tips on how to survive the credit crunch, to sourcing the perfect shipping partner. The Logistically Speaking roster features the following topics and guests:

– Episode 1 – Why Go Global? – Justine Hendricks, Regional Vice
President of Small Business Sales, Export Development Canada
Available today, April 30, 2008
– Episode 2 – Surviving North America’s Current Economic Climate –
Amgad Shehata, Vice President of Government Relations, UPS Canada
Available May 28, 2008
– Episode 3 -Getting to Know Your Market – Hylton Karon, President,
Coconut Grove Intimates
Available June 25, 2008

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