Tuesday, June 7, 2011

If a strike becomes the death blow for a business

Should the striking workers get employment insurance?

Mail volumes dropped by as much as half since strikes started: Canada Post

All this strike is really doing is pushing people to alternative methods to ensure that their correspondence arrives in a timely manner. The only people who are using mail are those that have to use mail. When your volume drops by half during a strike, it isn't because people are necessarily sympathetic to the union cause, it's that they have had enough with an underperforming pseudo-crown corporation that costs more to deliver less service. The true test will be how much of that volume comes back post-strike.

7 comments:

  1. I hope the Harper party has done a Maggie Thatcher and cut these bastards off at the knees. No welfare rely on your union dues.

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  2. I can't help but to think that you meant to put a /sarc tag at the end of that, but my point remains - if a person does something to destroy their job, then I have no sympathy for them.

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  3. I agree with your point, but what % of postal workers actually voted to go out?

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  4. I bet that a lot of people are signing up for e-bills and online bill payment. The volume will definitely not come all the way back up after the strike.

    Perhaps Canada Post should switch to three days a week delivery. Some weeks we seem to have that anyway.

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  5. I get my mail once a week at one of the supermailboxes 50' from my door. I've gone as long as 3 weeks between pickups. I can't say that I've really missed anything. My business picks up mail from our box 3 times a week. At this point, that's my biggest reason for using Canada Post.

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  6. Why would I put a /sarc tag on something I meant. What I said is exactly what Maggie did to the miners in the UK. Before that under Labour they were getting all sorts of benefits while on strike.

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  7. I've already switched two items to FedEx since I do actually want to get them this week.

    We often seem to only have mail delivery a few days each week. It's just not a big deal given the volume of actual, useful, wanted mail.

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