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You can request that you not receive unaddressed mail, it's quite nice not having a mailbox stuffed with garbage.
Just because you may not use a postal service much doesn't mean others don't. It's really the only option for those without mobile devices, computers, or internet access. Dismantling or privatizing the postal service would have a significant negative impact on seniors, elderly, and rural and remote communities.
We could easily afford a special service for those people without any other options without having to deliver mail 5 times a day to millions of people who do not need it. Those people you’re talking about are less than 10% of the population.
It’s like if we had a massive program to provide every single Canadian with their own service dog instead of just the people who want service dogs.
They are losing hundreds of millions a year though. That money could go a long way in other areas.
I'm not saying no mail, but maybe let's think of solutions. Do I need every day delivery? Do we need post offices. I ain't even suggesting it be profitable, but theres an extreme cash burn going on here. A lot of their services can be done by private companies pretty effectively (and I'm not a huge privatization guy). Hell they even own one (Purolator), so why the fuck are they also still messing around in the parcel world?
They aren't losing anything, just as the military doesn't lose money, nor the healthcare system. It is a public service.
That's not accurate at all. You can't just burn billions on billions on a public service then, without cuts somewhere else. You can't equate mail to stuff like a military and health care, it's not the same. Protection and basic human care for subsistence isn't equitable to being able to mail a letter to someone, or to send someone junk mail.