i've looked at them at their postal branches and they're pretty sturdy. Fill up the empty space with crunched up paper and it should secure things in place.

fill the extra space in the box with packing peanuts and youre fine.

also they finally brought back postal banking:

https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/personal/marketing/campaign/mymoney-offer.page

Essential services dont lose money they cost money

Have you (or any anyone) used these boxes before? I need to ship some things and I'm wondering how sturdy these are

Management are still receiving full bonuses and "hazard pay".

I do not understand them at all.

It's not supposed to be making more money than the previous year, every year. It's a service, it's the mail. I don't care how much money they wanted to make, what they need to do is deliver the mail, lol.

I agree with once or twice a week delivery as well as the community mailboxes though.

I also agree with community mailboxes, for those that are physically abled to access them, and primarily for small parcels and letters only...

but I don't agree with once/twice weekly delivery. This would just provide more incentive to people to use other shipping companies (UPS, FedEx, DHL, even all the little undercutting folks like Stallion Express, ChitChats, etc...), which would hurt CP's bottom line.

This is a service that costs money to run, not a profit center. It should always be a "loss" if you look at it as a competitive business. They used to have one van dropping off bags of local mail to various gray boxes and the carriers would get their mail to be delivered from those gray boxes. Now every carrier has their own little van. That in itself tells me there is no fiscal prudence. I agree with once or twice a week delivery as well as the community mailboxes though.

Maybe I just too old, but I think there will always be a place for physical deliveries, and that all households should be able to receive them. There's room to talk about schedule of those deliveries (maybe it's only 2 or 3 days per week, instead of every day), but I believe it should always exist. Mail isn't as important as it was in the "olden days", but receiving deliveries still is, so maybe the business model changes a little.

You're 100% right that electronic communication has heavily eclipsed physical delivery, and it's so critical that I think it should probably be treated with the same mandate - every Canadian should now also have access to a publicly funded digital mailbox in addition to a physical one. I think I recall that at one point in time Canada Post offered a service (or maybe they still do) through which a person's bills could be delivered electronically via Canada Post, but I think it's mostly been superseded by everyone's private e-mail now. But it might be too late - it might become just a novelty e-mail - would the average Canadian migrate from whatever service(s) they use now to Canada Post e-mail? It would need to have some compelling reason to do so, and it would need strong protection as well.

277 million loss before tax...

Okay - so...they really just need about 7-10% more people in the entirety of Canada to send parcels with Canada Post to make up for that shortfall (napkin math I know)

Hey - did you know that Canada Post have these nice and sturdy flat-rate parcel boxes in like 4 different sizes that are pretty competitive in prices that ship across Canada?

We can say that paper mail has decreased and parcel service has increased, but we do still use paper mail for important things. Perhaps we should deprecate it to an extent, but tt's supposed to be a service, not a for-profit corporation, which is an important factor here. It should be counted as a government expense, not as a loss for the company.

But, their core mandate is, and should be, to keep all people living in Canada connected and in communication, no matter how remotely located they are in the country.

(Full disclosure, I'm not Canadian but do use Canada Post)

I agree with this mandate. However, I'm trying to separate my familiarity/comfort vs the evolution of what "connected and in communication" truly means in 2026 vs the original definition from Canada Post's founding in 1867. Back then post mail was absolutely the best method, no question, but is it still today? Electronic methods of communication have eclipsed physical postal mail in every way in our lives. Does it make sense to continue to subsidize and support an expensive method of communication that has been largely replaced by society?

Here's where we should probably talk about specific product/service offerings. Does physical mail (letters) make sense to continue? Probably not. Does package/parcel delivery? Yes. So perhaps the infrastructure for handling letters could be deprecated and those resources be put to package/parcel deliver.

Denmark's PostNord ended mail delivery in 2025. Perhaps that's a good place to look not only for how the executed it, but how they evaluated PostNord to arrive at their decision.

Nationnalise Bell under CP. "Problem" solved.

Hot take: I don't care.

I mean, yes, the business should be run efficiently and they should embrace continuous improvement; yes, they should explore additional lines of business in the public interest (Canada Post all-Canadian e-mail anyone? VPS? Hosting? Mobile phone? Storage Lockers?).

But, their core mandate is, and should be, to keep all people living in Canada connected and in communication, no matter how remotely located they are in the country. And in my opinion, the same quality of service for all people, too. So, yeah, profitability will suffer, and the capitalists will be unhappy. I think the goal should be quality customer service not maximum profitability.

From what I understand either the local courier won't deliver or CP won't accept it.

My problem is the sloppiness of these little fly-by-night private companies that just toss things on the entrance which then get stolen within minutes, likely to end up at the local "my amazon" permanent flea markets.

Yeah, Generally most Aliexpress deliveries to me (Montreal) have been handled last mile with Apple Express / Intelcom. Only a rare few times has Canada Post handled it.

So then the last mile courier should just deliver it then to the post office.

Just have it shipped to your post office itself, that's what I did when I ordered off AliExpress. I think I used FlexDelivery for that. It wa a number of years ago so i don't fully remember but I believe it was flex delivery.

At this point mail in Canada simply does not work. Its worse than a third world country. Do not rely on paper email for anything, its a dystopian situation

Thank you, just posted it in the sub

And now from the workers' reps:

Monday June 1 2026 OTTAWA– Members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) in both the Urban Postal Operations and Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers (RSMC) bargaining units have voted to ratify new collective agreements. Preliminary results indicate 89.0% of Urban members and 85.9% of RSMC members voted in favour. These agreements will remain in effect until January 31, 2029.

These results follow a gruelling bargaining process, which spanned over two years and included seven weeks of nationwide strikes and repeated government interference, including the use of section 107 to pause our legal strike and a forced vote on one of Canada Post’s offers in the summer of 2025.

“Despite these challenges, postal workers made some gains and stopped drastic rollbacks first proposed by Canada Post,” says Jan Simpson, CUPW National President. “These agreements protect key rights including job security and pensions, and secured good wage increases, improved benefits, and pay for all hours worked for RSMCs.”

This round of bargaining took place against the background of constant threats to the core public service mandate of Canada Post. In March 2026, those threats became reality when the Government announced that it was giving Canada Post the green light to make sweeping changes to the public postal service including ending door-to-door delivery for four million addresses and converting to community mailboxes, closing post offices, and reducing service standards without proper public consultation.

“The cuts announced by the Government and Canada Post – while we were still bargaining and before our collective agreements were ratified – will negatively impact communities across the country,” says Simpson. “We, the public, are the owners of Canada Post, and we have a right to shape its future. Canada Post must not be allowed to continue on its path of managed decline. Now that our collective agreements have been ratified, we will turn all our energy into helping communities protect, improve, and expand this vital public service that Canadians rely on every day, no matter where they live,” adds Simpson.

That was just going to the post office with the envelope and asking them to send it the cheapest way possible.

What shipping option was that with? I wonder if the price might've been lower using a 3rd party label purchasing company (there's a few) / Last-Mile Canada Post shipment company.

"Local Police, hospitals, all report multi-billion dollar losses. How to make all government services highly profitable?" /s

I have a hard time figuring out how a service that charges me $17 to send a thin $5 coloring book to a kid can lose money.