So also Canada in tandem with the Netherlands. Canada Post has been privatized and mail delivery is not daily. In some new sub-divisions (locales) there is a bank of post boxes at one spot. Each house has a box and key and collect their mail when they want to. Going out in winter is a chore. The mail consists mostly of flyers, bills and government mail.
Canada Post compensates for revenue by raising mail prices, by reducing postmen, by commercial bulk mail and through their Purolator courier service. Each door to door postman gets a van which he parks at a spot on the streets and walks from there to house delivery. They don’t get the benefits and salary they used to and definitely not the solid pensions they used to get after retirement. Roland. Toronto. > On Apr 8, 2022, at 12:00 PM, patrice riemens <patr...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > Aloha, > > Sad but also strange story. I would have thought that in India postmen wouyld > still be state employees with a secure & (relatively) well paid job, like > befits an essential public service. It is no longer like that in the > Netherlands, always at the forefront orf neo-liberalism, where the post > office has been privatized (while keeping the label 'Royal' for branding > purposes ...), the postmen de-officialised and contractualised, while in > Germany they remain civil servants who must swear loyalty to the constitution > ... When she was young my mother stayed a few months in a farm high up in > the French Alps, and the postman would come every day from the village post > office far down in the valley, through snow and ice if necessary, with that > one single letter ... from het lover - whom she never married in the end ... > > Cheers to all, p+7D! > And the postal mail will go the same way as the telegraph ...
