It shouldn't be asked to be profitable. Its a service ffs

I'm honestly concerned by the amount of comments in this short comment section that suggests many of you do not actually know what Canada Post is. The reason they value profit imperatives is that, as a crown corporation, Canada Post is a neoliberal response to the success and increasing costs of public services in the mid- to late-twentieth century. Even though it is state owned and operated, it is fundamentally founded on the notion that business-based decision making is a more "efficient" and therefore less costly way to organize a system. This is wrong, obviously, but the consequence of that is we are forced to protect Canada Post as it does actually exist as the only publicly-owned postal service in Canada and is therefore crucial to protecting vulnerable communities from exploitatively expensive access to a basic need like the mail is. They talk about cost-saving measures as they ultimately view this as a revenue stream that has effectively appropriated what ought to be a public service in the way that healthcare and education is (I'm sure you can all relate this to the trajectory that those public services have also taken in the past fifty years).

Basic sources that you should read if you're uninformed on this:

https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/crown-corporation

https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/canada-post-corporation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Post

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purolator_Inc. (Purolator is also known to have worse labour conditions than Canada Post, and handles much of their package delivery traffic)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast (not directly related to Canada Post, but rather the overall privatization of public services and works)

Klein, Naomi. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007).

Jones, Gareth Stedman. The Political Theory of Neoliberalism. (2013).

If it really is much cheaper to have community mailboxes, then they should convert everyone in Canada to them. I've only ever had a community mailbox and it is a perfectly reasonable way for me to get my mail.

FYI,

RE Canada Post

The Corporation holds an interest in Purolator Courier, Innovapost, Progistix-Solutions and Canada Post International Limited

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Post

This always seems to be a passionate topic, I find it pretty rare these days to actually receive anything important. 9/10 times its just garbage.

They are doing the same thing with the USPS....

My neighborhood went community mailbox 10yrs ago and we are fine. They will still deliver home mail to folks who are not fit to venture out of their houses. Breathe. We can get through this, post fam.

I like the idea of community mail boxes bringing the local community together. Hell, I don't even know a lot of my city neighbours. This could work out nicely, especially if neighbours bring mail to their other neighbours who have trouble with mobility. That and less tax money spent. Good all around.