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   AA>Canada Post workers could strike again. If they do, the public will see red   
      
   Mostly in recent years I have more and more gotten away from physical   
   mailings. A lot of my Bills and Banking info and such is online now,   
   often just done without my permission - if you give them an eMail   
   address they assume you can do banking online - but it can be handy.   
      
   Mostly just Government stuff is still mailed to me, tax stuff and   
   license renewals and such..   
      
   But the post office has been working hard to alienate customers for   
   a long time. Many years ago when I saw the cost of stamps increase   
   by about 400% over a couple of years, I reduced my annual mailings   
   from something like 60 letters to about 8.  Now it's 2 or 3..   
   How much did they make on that?   
      
   And this was before you could do most things online so I was just   
   cutting down on mailings, not moving it to eMail which is a lot   
   easier to do these days.   
      
   Today Canada Post is basically bankrupt and only keeps running   
   because of thier semi-government corporation setup.   
      
   If they were a regular business they would do something like go   
   to 3 day a week delivery to community boxes - split the city in   
   two and deliver to each half the 'other' days so you have one   
   worker doing most of what 2 do today. There's an extra day in   
   there so maybe they need a part timer for one day a week.   
      
   Then they should concentrate on parcel delivery at a reasonable   
   price because that's where the money really is these days..   
      
   But this will never happen because their union is out of their   
   minds, wanting them to hire More people rather than laying some   
   off to save the business.   
      
   It makes me think about many years ago when I was working in   
   a grocery store chain and the union had cut the work week down   
   from 40 hours to 37 hours and was working on a new contract   
   demanding a 35 hour week, plus higher pay, more paid holidays   
   and other extras.   
      
   You could almost see them smiling and rubbing their hands together   
   looking for more things to ask for.   
      
   But grocery store chains are owned by People, not the government,   
   and they had watched their profits drop from about 1.5% to even   
   less so, when the smiling union guys walked into the negotiation   
   meeting, the company just said, no extras, no raises for 2 years,   
   and we are going back to a 40 hour work week.   
      
   The union laughed and said, well you can expect a long strike!   
      
   And the company people said no, that's not happening.. Sign the   
   contract or we are shutting down the entire chain of about 80   
   stores.   
      
   The union signed the contract.   
      
   You can probably tell I'm not a big fan of unions. I thought they   
   were great when I got my first raise in my first job, but over   
   the years I saw them do things I didn't much like. I was a hard   
   worker and 3 times the company gave me merit raises above what the   
   union contract called for, and that got me threatened by the union   
   for setting production records and making everyone else look bad..   
      
   Worse, others saw what I was doing and started working harder and   
   they were rewarded for it as well, and the last thing the unions   
   want is people being paid for what they actually do rather than for   
   just showing up for work most days.. The more work people do, the   
   fewer people you need to do it, and the fewer people there are to   
   pay union dues..   
      
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