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by Andrew Coyne on Monday, November 23, 2009 4:43pm - 5 Comments

Canada Post struggles to innovate

Tags: Monopoly, postal service

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Exacerbating the pinch on revenues is that the carrier must deliver to more and more places — some 200,000 new homes are built every year, and with each comes a new address that needs mail delivery.

OMG, the horror. New customers!
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The union representing postal workers also sees the writing on the wall. Denis Lemelin, president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, agrees Canada Post needs to diversify — and not just into financial services. He suggests offering hunting licences and passport processing, especially in remote and rural areas.

I am shocked, shocked, to learn that unionized employees of a gargantuan public utility are dreaming up means of rent-seeking in order to justify their collective current existence.
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My eyes caught the headline briefly on the CBC's page, and it occurred to me that it was the least newsworthy thing I had seen on a news site in quite a long time — and my girlfriend occasionally subjects me to cnn.com, so that was a true accomplishment.
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Simple solution: remove the monopoly. Innovate or die. Done! Next?
http://intensedebate.com/people/sourstud sourstud

Canada Post is simply a marketing vehicle. They deliver flyers, and thats about it. As someone who works with Canada Post daily, it's an organization that is broken from the top down. They sell a shabby service for more than their competitors, nuff said.

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