On Jun 13, 2014, at 5:02 PM, Joe Abley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13 Jun 2014, at 7:55, Miles Fidelman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Just a quick reminder here: Postal mail is still going strong, after 100s >> of years. > > I don't know what it's like where you live, but here the only thing that is > keeping the post office afloat is being paid by advertisers to deliver > unsolicited junk. > > "Canada Post has hiked postal rates for regular mail and plans to cut up to > 8,000 jobs as it phases out urban mail delivery over the next five years -- > all in a bid to reverse the tide of red ink at the money-losing Crown > corporation." > > "The Crown Corporation predicted this year that Canada Post and its > subsidiaries would lose $274 million before tax in 2014." > > "Still going strong" is not a phrase that resonates with me. > > Joe
Canada Post lost $274 million EBITA? Let us Yanks show you how it's done: http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2014/pr14_031.htm WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service ended the second quarter of its 2014 fiscal year (Jan. 1, 2014 – March 31, 2014) with a net loss of $1.9 billion. This marks the 20th of the last 22 quarters it has sustained a loss. • First-Class Mail Volume Declines by 4.1 percent • Approximately $64 Billion in Liabilities Exceed Assets by $42 Billion /end tongue in cheek Matt _______________________________________________ dmarc mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc
