Canada

From what I've seen, letter mail is going down in use and costing more every year. That's a money pit.

I 100% agree that it doesn't have to make money, and can operate at a loss, but the losses are growing at an unsustainable rate.

So, all I'm saying is that something has to change.

Even the union is saying something has to change. They've said many times that CP is being mismanaged and have proferred ideas for changes (like having postal workers become wellness checkers as well.) I can make a bunch of suggestions that I think are great ideas, but I'm no expert.^§^

But, it seems to me that the first thing that needs to change is the charter, so that the operations can change without being handcuffed by its antiquated rules.

Again, change doesn't have to mean eliminating jobs. The jobs can change to something more efficient and useful.

§ some other ideas I've heard or have thought of: changing the daily delivery model to an address focused one; rapid local delivery services; reducing home delivery and using community mail boxes (and pairing this with being able to register for home delivery on an as-needed-basis); becoming competitive in the parcel/e-commerce delivery space; getting into returns management for e-commerce (which could help with the waste and scams issues here too); Postal banking; Digital ID verification (like the banks do now for example); etc.