You're wrong

We do expect the military to turn a profit. Just not a profit for you.

At this point, by writing letters to our MPs, expressing clearly what we want to see happen and what we don't. For example that we want to see Section 107 gone and Canada Post funded. Slightly further into the future, by following the NDP leadership election and voting in it so we can get a stronger alternative during the next federal election, one that will support Canada Post's workers.

While I agree Canada post is losing lots of money you also got to keep in mind that they’re a government service not intended to make a profit.

Our tax dollars fund their operation, same goes with any other service provided by the government, only in a few circumstances where earning a profit makes sense like.. a government funded bakery? Couldn’t think of a better example.

Why should Canada Post be a corporation at all? It is legally managed to serve all Canadians. Corporations otherwise are not legally required to serve this or that place or demographic. Yet Canada Post must deliver to as far as Grise Fiord. It cannot be profitable while legally obligated to service extremely unprofitable regions. It can either serve all Canadians as a service, or be a real corporation that can make decisions like target demographics and operations, but not both.

(To be clear, I think everyone deserves mail service, including the people of Grise Fiord, so it should be a service and not a corp.)

What evidence do you have that Canada Post's CEO is the main problem? I mean you admit that Canada Post is owned by the government, then blame the CEO - who's boss is the same government - for all the problems.

This is on the feds and no one else. Too many of our politicians are in bed with investment banks and private equity, setting themselves up for a new job when they leave politics. It is the feds you should be blaming.

They own Purolator:

Canada Post owns 91 percent of Purolator, a major player in the domestic parcel market. Over the past four years, Purolator’s revenues have averaged approximately $2.5 billion, indicating that Canada Post is far from broke. If Canada Post held exclusive rights to parcel delivery—as it does for letters—it would easily break even.

As the article describes: there are a bunch of gig work companies whose costs are significantly lower than Canada Posts. Straight competition won't work.

Why not nationalize delivery services?

That would require an act of Parliament. Our last dozen or so governments have been pro-business, so that seems unlikely. But we can dream.

Canada post missed the bus when they didn’t find a way to pivot and use their infrastructure to create a delivery system for Internet packages. Now they have to try play catch up.

Canada Post exists as a Crown Corporation under a specific mandate; I don't think they could just pivot to become an internet service provider on their own

On the other hand, it’s past time to recognize that the timely delivery of a handwritten note from one person to the next within the week is not part of the requirement of the service anymore

So, and hear me out, maybe let's make a crown corp cell/landline/fibre provider under the Canada Post umbrella so Canadians can get affordable access to modern services that have now replaced the relevance of what mail used to be.

also someone who pays a few of their bills by mail here.

i would live to have one or two mail days per week instead of every day. i could drop my outgoing mail off at a post office if i need something to be postmarked on a specific day. the only thing i reliably receive in tge mail every day is trash; bills only come in a few times a month.

We aren't there yet. We have a population that still had old folk that can't operate a computer or cellphone and rely on snail mail.