Opinion | Privatizing Canada Post would be a costly mistake
Opinion | Privatizing Canada Post would be a costly mistake
Selling off Canada Post would raise costs, cut service, and leave rural Canadians behind. It’s a vital public service, not a business.
Had privatization ever worked out? Like, ever?
I was trying to think of a single example where it made the service better and I legitimately can't?
I was talking to someone about this very same postal issue, and his example was DHL. "Privatization turned them around! They're now an international company!!!"
Why the fuck does canada post need to be competing internationally? Just deliver the mail and have a gov't presence in small towns to provide other services.
Just spend the money to service canadians... It doesnt have to be profitable nor an international competitor
Also, DHL sucks...
Had privatization ever worked out? Like, ever?
Yes. It works out really nicely for our oligarchs.
It works for politicians who do the usual sleight-of-hand around "fiscal responsibility," and for the eventual shareholders.
Steve Boots has some good videos discussing the whole ordeal. Highly recommend him to fellow left-leaning Canadians. He's a former teacher and has managed to teach me far more than I ever hoped to learn on my own.
No need for an opinion tag if you're spitting straight facts
Some things make financial sense but not in a national security, social security, or unity sense. Privatizing utilities generally falls into one of those categories. I was arguing with my brother once about privatizing the local telco and he said it wasn't profitable. I responded with, "So? It never had to be profitable." There were certainly problems with it, and the expense was one of them, but it hasn't really gotten much cheaper after privatization, although a lot of people who could afford to buy stocks made a lot of money. And don't ask why, when our company was converted to publicly traded, we all didn't get stocks in it. Saying that out loud just proclaims it for the money grab it was.