An article written by Ian Austen in the New York Times from Waterloo, Ontario features how the Canadian Postal Service would stop home delivery for over the next five years, and try to increase postal rates in doing so. Canada would be the first group to end all residential mail delivery in cities and suburbs. This would make things very hard for employees, and people who are trying to get hired by the Canadian Postal Service. It is calculated that almost 8,000 jobs would disappear.
This would not only be an inconvenience to an individual who was looking for a job with the Canadian Postal Service, but also for the average person who goes out to their mailbox right outside their home to get the important information they need on a daily basis. Now Canadians who live in the cities would have to pick up their mail and parcels at a community mailbox. The Canadian Postal Service does not just make it harder for you to get your mail; they also want to raise the price of stamp booklets from 63 cents to 85 cents.
Justin Trudeau, the Liberal Party leader criticized the Canadian Postal Service by saying that "They took a major step without any advance notice or discussion with customers". The leader of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Denis Lemelin, called the rise in postage rates and cutbacks were "shortsighted and foolish".
The ultimate plan for the Canadian Postal Service is to cut costs, and make a more competitive Postal Service, But what about all the much older, and disabled citizens who stop getting home delivery? No one seems to have a plan for them. Dwayne Winseck a communications professor from Carleton University in Ottawa said "the end of postal delivery was a pivotal moment in Canadian History. The Canadian Postal Service must now find spaces in congested areas to squeeze in communal boxes for five million households, and it is going to be hard.