How Amazon Threatens Canada’s Post Office ⇥ disconnect.blog
That leaves us with an important question to consider. Not just what we want the future of Canada Post to be, but also what kind of society we want to live in. We should want to take advantage of the post office’s unique, nationwide infrastructure to provide more and better services to Canadians instead of dismantling something that we may never be able to rebuild. But even more than, the government should see Amazon’s low-wage, non-union model as a threat not just to Canada Post, but to Canadian workers across the board, and intervene to rein it in.
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers today gave notice of an impending strike after a year of contract negotiations. It would be horrible for our national postal system to be hollowed out by a private — and foreign — corporation with no obligation to service all Canadians.