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It's nice to see that we no longer trust privatization as a the magic wand that solves public institution problems.
That said I think the 52% support for non-union gig work in Canada Post is indicative of the mindset that needs shifting if Canada is to change course in a way that makes most people better off long term.
Source: https://angusreid.org/canada-post-privatization-strike-service-disruption-vote-union/
That's a terrible fucking idea.
38% of people are brain dead.
More like indoctrinated into self-harming beliefs. No one is born with an opinion or understanding on privatization. 🥹
You can tell what position a publication supports when they describe slightly more than a third as if it was a majority.
Majority support for non union gig workers? Allow me to present my middle finger you no solidarity having, short-sighted worthless fucks.
Yeah fuck the idea of bringing in “gig” workers.
Using Gig workers is basically saying “at will employment isn’t shitty enough”
If you need staff employ them.
I’m fine with 3 day a week mail. Even 2 days a week. But I’ll have no part of that gig economy bullshit.
Isn't that about the same percentage that vote conservative every election?
The original article contains some statistics by party, and yes, there is a correlation between voting Conservative and not wanting to fund Canada Post. Other correlations: rural people tend to support funding Canada Post, people who seldom or never receive mail tend not to. (The rural and Conservative tendencies are going to pull in opposite directions for a fair number of people.) I wouldn't be surprised to discover that there's also a correlation with income brackets, but they don't seem to have collected that information.
Thereabouts but don't be fooled, this number is spread across parties. Undoubtedly heavily weighted towards the conservative parties but if there's a breakdown you'd probably see a non insignificant proportion in the other parties.
Reduce mail to 3 days a week.
TBH, if it avoids privatization and saves money, I'd be happy getting mail even once a week. Nothing we get by mail is so urgent that a few extra days will destroy lives.
In cases where something is needed urgently, there's courier, express mail, etc. as premium options. Regular "snail mail" isn't meant to be fast.
Interesting, if a bit tangential, that 72% support reducing delivery frequency while Canada Post is trying to increase delivery frequency by doing weekend deliveries.
Personally, I don't understand how many things can be so urgent that it's profitable to deliver as frequently as possible. Surely a single specialised courier for critically fast deliveries (e.g. life saving medicine) would entirely saturate the market.
Such a dumb and badly run country.
Every TTC subway stop should have a post office in it. The TTC should be run 24hrs a day. You should be able to pick up your package at the post office within the TTC subway stop easily.
Post offices within the GTHA really should be walking distance for most people. Go pick your package up somewhere close by, open 24hrs.
Putting post offices in Shoppers Drug Mart isn't too bad, but it would be better if they where in 24hr donought shops.
We need to use community postal boxes more.
We need traffic cameras to automatically ticket couriers that block traffic.
We need to get ride of this 'independent contractor' nonsense. It's a scam.
But for this to happen the Fed/Prov/City and Crown Corps all need to work together...so it'll never happen.
That's reducing mail delivery. I think everyone is on the same page about increasing package deliveries.
Packages aren't mail? Fair enough, I guess I'm the odd one out there.
Everyone except for me might be on the same page about package deliveries, though I still don't understand why they would be.
This is worrying, even with the majority not wanting privatization.
Lately I think the number of low IQ people has increased from ~15% to 30%
Since COVID people have been significantly stupider.
Have you come across any measurements on this?
According to Oxford long covid averages a 10 point IQ drop, other sources say mild covid resulted in a 3-6 point drop.
Yeah. An older report by Angus Reid from 2019 cited here says that about 60% did not support privatization. That would put privatization support at the time at 40-something, since the union would like to make the opposite number as large as possible. So there's perhaps some trend away from privatization.