Talk:Canada Post

message: I request that a picture be uploaded that's in good condition. It would look nicer. Although I must admit in some communities they are often treated that way. Nastajus 03:11, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  graffiti relay box 

message: epost redirects here, but the article makes no mention of the service at all .. --142.242.2.248 17:09, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I suppose nobody has had the time or inclination to add information about it. You're more than welcome to do so, of course. Certainly, this article needs expansion, especially about the various activities of Canada Post. Mindmatrix 18:06, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

text: I notice that someone has recently introduced a blurb about E-post. If I'm not mistaken, this wasn't created in 2000 as suggested by the new addition, but was officially launched by Canada Post. The company dates to at least 1995 (see this). I thought this was an independent company that was purchased by Canada Post in 1999 or 2000, but I can't find any info about that. Mindmatrix 16:32, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  epost? 

message: A first class letter posted from two major cities, say Toronto to Montreal usually takes one to two days to arrive.  A letter posted from Toronto to a smaller centre, such as Sudbury usually takes 3-5 days to arrive.  A letter from a smaller town to a smaller town outside the region will take 5-7 days to arrive.  A letter across the country will almost always take at least a week to arrive.  Canada Post is structured to provide service between major cities well.  The outer regions with their low population density receive much slower service.  Overnight first class mail services such as is common in Europe within the same country, or the US within the same region is almost unheard of in Canada, even within the same city. rasblue 15:18, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It depends on whether it is delayed by customs. Atleast a week? Pendragon39 19:39, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If shipped via surface mail, usually 1-3 weeks, depending on customs. If by air mail, usually 5-10 days. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lobsterboy79 (talk • contribs) 01:17, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slow Mail Delivery 

message: I did a quick internet search, and came up with sources related to a UPS NAFTA lawsuit against Canada Post and the Government of Canada. This should be incorporated into the article.
*NAFTA - Chapter 11 - Investment; Cases Filed Against the Government of Canada
*NAFTA Tribunal Rules That UPS's Claim Against Government of Canada to Move Forward
*United Parcel Service of America v. Government of Canada
*NAFTA's Investor "Rights"
I'm going to revert the recent addition (this one) until a source can be found for it.
The award in the UPS NAFTA claim can be found at http://www.international.gc.ca/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/assets/pdfs/MeritsAward24May2007.pdf
The majority of the members of the tribunal (all except UPS's nominee) sided with Canada in dismissing the complaint. Stadacona (talk) 19:23, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Some sources

message: I am currently uploading various labels and tags used across Canada, found at the London Mail Plant and they are available on Commons under the same name, I believe there is a commons link on this article page. After they are up I will be putting them into seperate articles so for now theya re all together WayneRay 20:01, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Commons

message: I made some semantical changes that I think allow us to remove those tags on this section.  I also changed around the addresses as the "these people are fictional..." qualifier was a little suspicious...    NByz 02:52, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: John Jones of LMPP #1 shift thought it was ok, thanks for the redo. WayneRay (talk) 17:39, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advert and Howto tags on the Mail Format section 

message: I took about three hours and cleaned up the whole entry. It does not read like an advertizement anymore and pictures form the Commons have been added, as well as pertinent references.Tomj 02:18, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Major Edit Completed

message: I'd like to see a section in this article that addresses the above.  Apparently Canada Post allows no competition for letters sent within Canada or abroad.  See this news item, and Canada Post's legalese describing their "exclusive privilege".
Topics to cover within that section could include:
* history of the monopoly
* its legal foundation
* court decisions
* the NAFTA issue discussed in the "Some sources" section above
* what competition is and isn't permitted
* comparisons to the postal systems of the USA and other nations
* etc.
— Wdfarmer (talk) 03:02, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canada Post's monopoly ("exclusive privilege") 

message: Canada Post has been the aim of I think two or three lawsuits under NAFTA? i.e.  Canada Post wins NAFTA challenge launched by UPS Where would a small blurb on this better fit in? under NAFTA or Canada Post's article? Context on the Canada Post v. UPS NAFTA ruling CaribDigita (talk) 06:18, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canada Post and NAFTA. 

message: As other Canadian crown corporations, Canada Post has an Ombudsman office. Since there is mention of some Ombudsman offices in Wikipedia, I saw fit to add a small section in this article about this subject. This section was placed following the History section. 66.110.6.119 (talk) 12:30, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ombudsman section added 

message: I have read that the hideous green mailboxes are still in use. Can someone upload a photo to add to the article? 96.50.202.130 (talk) 17:07, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Green mailboxes 

message: http://canadapost.ca/shopper
Of course, there is no press release to state that they're stopping a service.  Also, I don't know when it was stopped.  
198.103.167.20 (talk) 18:47, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Price Comparison is no longer available 

message: The claim that:
"Dr. Maurice Levy invents the automatic postal sorter, which could handle 200,000 letters per hour."
Is that one sorter machine or a group of machines?
I ask because I just read that the US machine he made did 21,600 letters per hour p. 58, so did the Canadian sorter really do almost 10 times as much?
In any case, hats off to Maurice Levy, Canadian inventor.
This may a good page to add to the main page's sources:
http://www.dww.com/?p=2686  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.89.244.46 (talk) 20:14, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation needed 

message: Couldn't find the original contributor, but this was moved from article space:
The dead links on this page related to the Annual Report of Canada Post can be relieved by linking to items at Canada Post archived Annual Reports. 
Joe SchmedleyT* 17:03, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fixing annual report dead links 

message: If "Canada Post receives millions of letters addressed to Santa Claus each year" and "current and retired Canada Post employees respond to each letter", how comes that "over the past 27 years" only "more than 15 million letters were written by Canada Post volunteers"? Does "millions" mean "about half a million" here, or does "volunteers" not include the current employees (but then, if they do it as part of their job, why are they removed from the statistic?)? --YMS (talk) 17:26, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  (Millions of) letters to Santa Claus 

message: "It is not required to put on a stamp when sending a letter to Santa Claus but Canada Post gives a donation for alphabetisation."
Perhaps I'm being dense, but I just don't understand what this sentence means.  Alphabetisation of what?  Canada Post donates to whom?  What's the connection between this donation and the ability to send a a letter to Santa stamp-free?
Hardly an important problem, but ....  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jokemill (talk • contribs) 06:55, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Canada Post gives a donation for alphabetisation":   what does this mean? 

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message: There is some concern (and an edit war) about whether the privatization discussion should be mentioned in this article.   While I believe it doesn't warrant mention, removing such a well-sourced section really would require consensus here and I have re-restored it pending discussion.   Please comment.  Toddst1 (talk) 22:24, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see any reason to remove it. It's sourced and relevant. Specifically, I reject the idea that political issues involving mail carriers is non-neutral. There's no reason to exclude that information when it's been discussed by reliable sources. clpo13(talk) 22:43, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I also see no reason to remove it.  The ownership or potential ownership of this organization is certainly notable.  It isn't "political" or nonneutral (as it does not advocate one side or the other. 331dot (talk) 23:16, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The organization has never been seriously considered for privatization. Not one government review, panel or recomendation has ever pointed to privatization. The ownership of Canada Post is public, period. All sources cited in the section are politically far right think tanks. There is no rebuke to provide the counterpoint, which is frankly far more convincing, considering privatization has never even been considered by the management of the post office. The section does advocate for one side, 331dot you are incorrect. I propose it be removed. 108.162.138.228 (talk) 23:51, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Privatization 

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message: Is there a reason why this page uses DMY date formatting? From the WP:MOS which states WP:DATETIES have primacy, Canada's formatting would either be MDY or YMD. Sleath56 (talk) 19:03, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure to which section of the MOS you're referring. MOS:DATEFORMAT specifies that the two acceptable formats are DMY and MDY (see the table), with Y-M-D accepted for brevity. MOS:DATETIES states "Articles related to Canada...may use either format with (as always) consistency within each article". Mindmatrix 19:40, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually it's stated that YMD is the official format of Canada as adopted by the government, whilst MDY is the format of principally English Canadians. DMY is predominately used by French Canadians and only sometimes by English speakers. 
In any case, it's an exercise in semantics as I've just realized in the meantime that the rest of the article is already in MDY format. Changed summarily.Sleath56 (talk) 20:22, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date Format 

message: conspicuously absent: section on fleet - past, present and future. CP has some old Grumman LLV delivery vans, with some Morgan Olson cargo EVs in the pipeline. presumably, CP also has some semis and trailers. Railcars? Planes?  Doug Grinbergs (talk) 09:19, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fleet?