Post Nord

[agstar77]

Denmark has eliminated letter delivery . Should we do the same?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Would any private company continue to offer an obsolete service that loses money on every transaction?

I just read an article on the topic. And I got a kick out of this:
people in remote areas

From a rural Canadian perspective, I'm trying to imagine a remote area in Denmark. With an average of 366 people per square mile.

[agstar77]

As us seniors pass, who will care about letters. Almost all correspondence is email or text. Cheques will soon be history, landlines are almost done etc.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

An older neighbor was having a feud with Telus and threatened to cancel her landline . They thanked her.

[Blaithin]

I would love a house phone that works off the cell service.

Leave my phone in the house, nice and peaceful, nostalgic, no land line BS.

I do appreciate Canada Post but that's mainly because most delivery services still really struggle to find rural addresses and deliver with any consistency. If something is sent by mail I know it's going to find me and where I can pick it up at - mailbox or post office. If something is sent via courier there's a dozen different places it can end up, different towns, different companies, you don't know who it's getting sent with prior to give them the best address for them.... It's a real pain in the dick.

[agstar77]

Copper lines are degrading and will not be replaced. Landlines in multiple unit dwellings are being replaced by internet protocol.

[blackpowder]

Landline was kept for emergencies but started making 911 and 411 calls all by it's self even with phone unplugged. When cancelling, was offered for $1/ month but history proved they jack it back to $8 over time.
The week I cancelled it, vandals collapsed our main tower. 1 or 2 bars now till later this year. LOL.

Believe Post Nord Denmark was a public limited company for years. Far different creature than Canada Post.

Likely not an all or none fix. Most services tho altered could remain.
Feel like our hurdle is the number of current employees. With a strong contract.
Dropping door to door to once a week service alone would eliminate positions.
Letters alone not the whole issue.
For those who yet don't or can't use email, they could pay $2 or $3 a stamp and that wouldn't stop the bleed.
I assume admail is dead as I flagged my box years ago. Parcels face competition. I still value the post office for this and other services.

So, modernizing the services, streamlining the labor force, amortizing pension obligations, costing out obsolete workers, and possibly removing the federal government somehow.
$1B a year just in operating losses alone.
Would likely pay for quite a few nurses eh?

Talk of expanding into financial services is one of the dumbest things I heard all year.

Of course we could do the same with the CBC but I don't think either will happen. Nobody seems to care enough to do the work. No votes in that I think. Kick the can.
Unions have a lot of power and that won't change without public and govt resolve. Solve that problem for a start.

[sumdumguy]

City guys like their mail delivered to their door. There’s the votes.