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\"canada<\/a>Canada Post – financial profile – 2015 to 2024 [Canada Post]
\n \"CANADIAN<\/a> <\/p>\n

Monday October 6, 2025 | VICTORIA, BC<\/p>\n

News analysis by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends<\/p>\n

The last few days have been jam-packed with changes around the scenario of Canada Post as a company and how its unionized workers are responding. Each day, the Canadian Postal Workers Union (CUPW) also responded.<\/p>\n

On September 25, the federal government directed Canada Post to adjust delivery of mail to be based on volume<\/a>, not \u2018every day to every address\u2019. This was put in the context of being a cost-saving measure, as the government can no longer bail out Canada Post, said Jo\u00ebl Lightbound, Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement.<\/p>\n

\"Minister<\/a>Jo\u00ebl Lightbound, Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement announces changes t Canada Post mandate, Sept 25, 2025. [livestrteam].<\/p>\n

Canada Post workers responded by going fully on strike, providing no delivery services of any kind. That escalation came after previously just refusing to work overtime hours (which slowed overall service) and then to refuse delivery of commercial flyers (which hit the employer in a substantive area of revenue). <\/p>\n

Canadians impacted, particularly small business:<\/p>\n

Sadly, while the strike will impact Canadians in various ways, it almost seems like a regularized part of Canadian life that postal service is once again disrupted.<\/p>\n

Under this scenario, small businesses and other operations such as non-profits an charities that still rely on Canada Post are shifting to other options.<\/p>\n

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Financial realities:<\/p>\n

In recent days Canada Post dropped the offer of a signing bonus of between $500 to $1,000 per employee \u201cdue to the company\u2019s deteriorating financial situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Canada Post has not turned a profit since 2017<\/a>. They were burdened by a rock-solid lifetime employment guarantee for their employees and an outdated government mandate requiring daily delivery to all Canadian addresses. For some reason, they kept their postage stamp prices extremely low considering the value of the service.<\/p>\n

\"canada<\/a>Canada Post \u2013 financial profile \u2013 2015 to 2024 [Canada Post]<\/p>\n

Summary of the last few days:<\/p>\n

As the situation continues to evolve, here is a summary of what transpired during October 1 to 3:<\/p>\n

Wednesday October 1, 2025:<\/p>\n

CANADA POST: Canada Post says they are on a journey to restore and renew the postal service.<\/p>\n

In light of the changes announced by the Government of Canada in the last week of September, Canada Post has 45 days to present a plan on how to move the postal system forward. Canada Post President and CEO Doug Ettinger issued a letter to Canadians addressing the announcement and the proposed changes, which highlighted:<\/p>\n

Fewer than one in four households still receives door to door delivery. <\/p>\n

List of rural post offices was created 30 years ago and has not been updated. They still aim to serve rural, remote, northern and Indigenous communities.<\/p>\n

Staffing reduction is necessary to be a leaner operation. Thousands of employees are eligible to retire over the next five years which Canada Post feels will minimize the impact on their employees.<\/p>\n

Canadians have changed the way they use the postal service, and Canada Post feels it must change with them, while understanding the importance of service to small businesses across the country.<\/p>\n

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CUPW: Continuing on strike.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast week, the government announced massive changes to Canada Post\u2019s mandate and huge service cutbacks to the public. Now more than ever, we must come together and fight for our public post office, save jobs, and defend the services that Canadians rely on,\u201d said CUPW n a statement on their website, October 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs postal workers continue to wait for global offers from Canada Post, CUPW members, labour leaders, and allies took part in events across the country to defend the public post office. We came together to fight for good public services, good jobs in our communities, and a strong sustainable public post office,\u201d said CUPW in a news release.<\/p>\n

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Thursday October 2, 2025:<\/p>\n

CANADA POST: Canada Post told their business customers on October 2 that the changes around centralized delivery and the \u201cright-sizing\u201d of their retail network will yield significant savings. The goal is to \u201cprovide more reliable, cost-efficient service with the goal of also providing more competitive parcel pricing\u201d.<\/p>\n

CUPW: On October 2, CUPW President Jan Simpson wrote in a news release: \u201cOn October 3, forty-four (44) days after CUPW last presented global offers and sixty-three (63) days since the end of the forced vote, the negotiators will finally meet with Canada Post to receive the Corporation\u2019s latest global offers. Once received, the negotiators will review the contents of the offers and give members an update as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Friday October 3, 2025:<\/p>\n

CANADA POST: Canada Post presented new offers to the Canadian Union of Postal Workers on October 3, saying the offers \u201cenable the company\u2019s modernization while balancing its financial realities with fairness and respect for employees\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Government of Canada recently announced important measures to help renew and restore the postal service so that it aligns with the needs of the country, returns to financial sustainability and avoids taxpayer-funded government bailouts,\u201d said Canada Post. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe offers for the Urban and RSMC (Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers) bargaining units contain proposals to help support this transformation while minimizing the impact on our people.\u201d<\/p>\n

They dropped a signing bonus to help make things financially feasible for the corporation but maintained what they say are \u201ckey provisions for employees that were in the Corporation\u2019s best and final offers presented on May 28, 2025\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese proposals include compounded wage increases of 13.59% over four years, while protecting what they say employees value most:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Industry-leading defined benefit pension \u2022 Health benefits and post-retirement benefits \u2022 Vacation (up to seven weeks) and pre-retirement leave \u2022 Cost of living allowance that protects against the effects of unforeseen inflation<\/p>\n

\"postal<\/a>Door-to-door delivery of mail to every address is still part of the Canada Post mandate. [web]<\/p>\n

Canada Post says it is \u201ctransforming the company\u2019s operations\u201d as directed on September 25, 2025 by the government to: \u2022 Introduce flexibility in delivery standards and frequency \u2022 Expand the use of community mailboxes \u2022 Develop a plan to protect service in rural, remote, northern and Indigenous communities after the lifting of the rural moratorium<\/p>\n

Maintaining jobs:Canada Post says it will continue to \u201cprovide good jobs and need a strong workforce \u2013 but one that is smaller in size and more flexible in the future. The best job security comes from organizations that are strong and self-sustainable.\u201d They are dropping the \u2018job security for life\u2019 provision which requires the company to continue to provide full pay to an employee until they decide to leave, even if there is no work for them.<\/p>\n

Layoffs will only be used if other measures, including attrition and departure incentives, prove insufficient to achieve reduction targets, says Canada Post.<\/p>\n

Canada Post says that 493 postal offices now in urban\/suburban areas (formerly rural areas) should be removed from being classified as rural. This will allow some flexibility in reassigning resources and still protect services in rural, remote, northern and Indigenous communities.<\/p>\n

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CUPW: <\/p>\n

On October 3, the union responded with:<\/p>\n

\u201cCanada Post finally presented its latest global offers to CUPW negotiators. We had expected that Canada Post would return to the table and make significant movement so that our members could ratify their offers. Instead, it chose to use the Government\u2019s announcement last week to take major steps backwards.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe waited 45 days for offers that are worse than what we rejected in August. Canada Post must have known that there is no way we can accept these and is clearly wasting even more time. So why did they bother?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the forced vote, Minister Patty Hajdu told the Parties that the next proposals needed to be ratifiable. Canada Post is not listening.\u201d That vote was in July 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"IST<\/a>Canada Post news section [Island Social Trends]<\/p>\n

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