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Not a business fuckfaces. How much profit does The fire department make? Want an example of a business who can't make a profit?

Bad headline, @thestar.com. Why should service have to make money? Police costs a huge amount, so why not the mail?

I wonder how much we're paying just for cop related lawsuit settlements

Does the 401 make money, fuckwits?

Canada Post is a Crown Corporation. It was never intended to make a profit, it provides a SERVICE to Canadians. Canada Post would help themselves out if they divested themselves of Purolator and dropped package rates by at least 25%. Every time they up stamp prices they lose 1 million customers.

Should we also stop funding fire departments then? Why pay for anything if it costs us money? What about public roads? How much money do roads actively produce? Or does indirect economic impact through public investment in infrastructure only count for miles-long tarmac slabs?

People don’t seem to understand the difference between a public service vs a crown corporation. CP used to be quite profitable 20y ago, but mail volume has declined yet union leaders think CP should still operate exactly the same. Pretending things haven’t changed is a sure way to become extinct.

Yeah, it's a service

Propaganda. Post should be a public service. WE WANT it to be a public service. It doesn't need to be a business and run for profit. It's meant to run for us. This spin is meant to prime Canadians for the plug being pulled. Pushing our post into the hands of private, for-profit, corporations.

It's a government service. Who cares if it turns a profit?

What the fuck is wrong with you, public services aren’t supposed to make a profit. And this is what passes as a “left wing” newspaper around here?? What a fucking joke.

How much did the Canadian military make in profit?

- CEO, executive, and upper management bonuses continuing throughout all of the years of supposed "losses" - The implementation of an "SSD" system that increases the need for overtime while delaying mail to Canadians by 1-5 days minimum during an affordability crisis

Canada Post is a service not a business. This is propaganda to get Canadians to accept loss of services.

Mail delivery is a public service, not a business, you morons. It's not supposed to make money - it's supposed to deliver mail.

You can reach them at: business@thestar.ca

The section editor gets paid to do exactly the job they’re doing. They are not any more persuadable than the social media employee.

Fucking incompetent journalism. Services don't lose money. Canada Post did not lose any money because services shouldn't be expected to make money.

The police also is a net loss and i dont see you whinning right tears over it.

How much is the World Cup going to lose? How much has it already lost?

My advice to the federal govt.: stop trying to run the post office as a for-profit business, and resume running it as a public service division.

ITS A PUBLIC SERVICE

But they aren't stagnating, they just have had profitable routes poached by gig work companies who make money on the backs of vulnerable workers.

The Canada Post Act has to be amended, then.

there's a certain salvation in the knowledge I've been able to spend money in stores I've never entered

100%!!!!

Is this an opinion piece? How much have the libraries “lost”? Healthcare? The 401 loses money every day. Like honestly wtf

It actually makes more money than any other service we have, but it is in competition with private carriers, who are driving this PR campaign. Those private carriers give a slower more expensive service, not even across the whole country, but they pay their lobbyist well...

So you're saying using Canada Post is a good deal?

How much money did the RCMP lose?

I you don't like how much Canada Post "lost" you'll hate to see the DND numbers.

it's not a "loss", it's a cost. fire your idiot headline writer.

Not a loss. It's a public service. Like RCMP. Or healthcare. It's budget is an investment. Not a loss. #cdnpoli

And if you were interested in good journalism: Maybe report on how mail delivery is burdened by the massive amounts of amazon, etc packages being sent through our federal post. Then, a good journalist would call for maringal wealth taxes on corporations with billions in revenue. To help people.

That's about 1B less than the cost of pausing the excise gas tax

I don't think government services can run a loss, they cost what they cost

Fuck off with these articles like this. PUBLIC SERVICE

Come on now. Run the numbers on the municipal, provincial and federal cops next. How much are they making in profit per year? If those numbers aren’t in the positive, I expect changes

Capitalism is so fucking bleak. What do you mean "loss"? It's a service. It's doing its purpose.

Let's give them money from the police budget.

Canada post is a public service. It was never meant to be making money ?

i literally do not give a fuck

It's not a loss, it's a service. Services cost money. Retrain your thinking.

There goes my business, that and the futile expense to send anything stateside.

Ok now do the cops

Oxygen on the chopping block for not making a profit over the past millennia.

And how many billions of dollars worth of goods did it transport? It's the cost of doing business.

How much profit did the Canadian military report last year?

www.cupw.ca/en/future-po... Canada Post 'is already supposed to raise rates, in conjunction with other revenues, in a manner sufficient to defray its costs. But...2018-2023, Canada Post only raised its rates 7% at the time when major post offices around the world raised theirs an average of 55%'

oh shut up

IT'S A SERVICE!!!!!! THEY AREN'T HERE TO MAKE A PROFIT

You're also going to publish a story about how much the police "lose" every year, right?

Awful reporting, as you know very well

It is not supposed to make a profit are you stupid?

Less than a billion a year to deliver all the mail in Canada seems like a deal.

Public services aren’t supposed to turn profits.

Why do media always refer to the cost of running Canada Post as a "loss" when we don't treat any other public service that way? No one will be laughing when we all lose our public services because they are not (and should not) be making a profit.

Ok

What’s the profit margin of the police?

Including the suspensions with pay that last years on end? Plenty.

I know Toronto loses about a billion dollars on cops every year.

Imagine asking the RCMP to be "self-sufficient or perish"

What kind of annual loss did the military have? What's the total expenditure on it since 2018? Why talk about some public services having 'losses' & not others? (That's obviously rhetorical, we all know.)

How much have the roads lost? What are the losses for healthcare, the police, or defense?

CAF: net loss of 81 Billion in ‘25

It's a PUBLIC SERVICE not a business! Fuck this capitalist propagandist framing fuck it right to Hell and back, Canada Post needs more funding and its workers need fair treatment.

Why does a publicly funded mail service need to make money?

It's a service, not a business. The people in charge need to be reminded of that with CATASTROPHICALLY large pay cuts because the service has gone to absolute shit.