Tag: Canada Post

NAMMU National Association of Major Mail Users meeting.

Canada Post is exceeding their 96% delivery service target for all product lines.

The delivery standard for Business Reply Mail is 3 business days for local delivery, 4 days within the province, and 5 days nationally. Significantly, the induction day at the originating plant is day 0. There is a specific Service Grid and exceptions list in Section G of the Canadian Postal Guide.

A union representative for rural mail carriers says Canada Post overreacted by suspending service to thousands of country mailboxes because of health and safety issues. Heather Manuel, health and safety representative for rural and suburban mail carriers in the Fredericton area, said Wednesday rural route drivers feel they are being unfairly blamed by residents who are furious about the sudden loss of home delivery. Over 1,000 Canada Post customers in rural areas surrounding Fredericton have had home delivery suspended because their mailboxes were deemed unsafe. Thousands of mailboxes elsewhere in Canada are now off limits as Canada Post reviews its entire rural mail delivery system.

Following a wave of public condemnation, Canada Post officials will hold public information sessions this week to discuss their reasons for suddenly stopping individual mailbox delivery in a number of rural areas. Canada Post spokeswoman Avril Vollenhoven said Monday that, so far, service has been suspended to 53,000 mailboxes across Canada as the corporation embarks on a health and safety review of rural delivery. The workers say they are suffering repetitive stress injuries from reaching into mailboxes. As well, there are concerns about heavy traffic on some roads. But rural residents say they’re fed up with Canada Post’s decision to stop delivery to the mailboxes, pending a review of its entire rural delivery system. Many are eager to make that point in meetings scheduled for this week in four separate communities.

Rural residents left in the lurch by the sudden loss of home mail delivery are appealing for political help as Canada Post continues to shut down country mail routes for health and safety reasons. Some New Brunswick residents, including seniors and people with disabilities, were told by Canada Post on Tuesday they will have to make 40-kilometre round trips to get their mail. The corporation said this week it is reviewing its entire rural mail service following complaints from the unionized workers who deliver the mail. The workers say they are suffering repetitive stress injuries from reaching into mailboxes. As well, there are concerns about heavy traffic on some roads. Rural service in a number of communities across Canada already has been suspended, including several communities in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. But residents are complaining that Canada Post made the decision without putting practical alternatives in place.

Canada Post’s annual report announced record volumes and $199 million in net profits in 2005, its eleventh consecutive year of making millions and its twenty-fifth year of providing universal, affordable public postal service, said the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW).

“In spite of its success, Canada Post used the 2005 annual report as an opportunity to suggest that our public post office is in trouble and needs to be more profitable,” said CUPW President Deborah Bourque.