![]() | This article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|
This article reads like a piece of Canada Post propaganda. As many Canadians, myself included, have discovered, Canada Post provides poor service at outrageous prices compared to almost all other countries in a world. In addition to high prices, common complaints include:
- lost and stolen mail (the one incident of mail theft mentioned in the article is not an isolated one)
- mail repeated delivered to the wrong address
- mail delayed at one location for excessive amounts of time (often in the infamous "Mississauga Sortation Plant")
- the lack of a modern tracking system (what are claimed to be tracking numbers on their website are actually just id numbers with limited tracking functionality, which customer service only tells you after they've lost your package)
- fraudulent insurance coverage (even if you buy insurance on an item at the post office, some items are not insurable, which they only tell you after they've lost them)
- extra charges for customs processing ($8 minimum charges by canada post for giving you the privilege of allowing canada customs to charge you duties)
- lying customer service representatives (who like to claim that you mail is stuck at customs to escape responsibility; when you contact customs you then find out that the mail was actually transfered to canada post a week before)
- slow delivery (it can take a week to deliver in the same city!!!)
- mail delivery on only four days of the week (no mail on weekends, and many postmen only work 4 days a week)
- lack of mail delivery to homes in new neighbourhoods
- parcel delivery drivers who drop off missed-package slips without bringing the package from the depot, and without knocking/ringing the door (while you are at home waiting for the package)
- parcel delivery drivers who don't even come by, and let your normal mail carrier give you a missed-package slip
- leaving parcels and mail that require a signature in your mail box or your steps in plain view for anyone to steal
- related to the above, impatient delivery drivers who enter a scribble as your signature themselves, even when you are standing right there (which is probably what they do when you're not there and they dump it on your doorstep too)
- rude employees, particularly customer service
- a dispute resolution process with only one possible outcome -- you lose
- parcels left out in the rain or damaged in transit
- Canada post's ownership and operation of Purolator, which is designed to provide an illusion of competition
If I remember (unlikely), I will try to find sources for some of these assertions, and add them to the article. Some will be easier to prove than others -- it is easy to show that Canada Post has incredibly high prices compared to other postal carriers. For instance, sending a package from destination X outside of Canada to destination Y within Canada using a foreign postal service is almost always cheaper than doing the reverse using Canada Post. However, given the nature of the most of the complaints, I doubt many have much in the way of reliable sources, which is unfortunate. All you need is a quick google search to see how many people have horror stories about Canada Post. --
Ultiam
08:06, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
Adendum: - no mention is ever made as to what happens to the profits of Canada Post — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.100.230.194 ( talk) 13:45, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
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)
... I agree - it's not the best example of Canada Post boxes Themepark
Changed address example for Montreal: no street in Montreal is directionally either NW, NE, SW, SE, N or S. On North/South streets, numbers ascend northward from where the island meets the Saint-Lawrence. East/West streets are numbered with Saint-Laurent street as 0. Streets that cross Saint-Laurent have duplicating civic numbers, so the W and E directional suffixes are used. I'll try to change the addresses so that they correctly reflect their postal codes (seems appropriate given the context). :)
epost redirects here, but the article makes no mention of the service at all .. -- 142.242.2.248 17:09, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
The company epost started as a joint venture of Canada Post and Bank of Montreal. Later Telus invested. Eventually all shares were acquired by Canada Post and the operations were completely absorbed into the management structure of Canada Post. Stadacona ( talk) 19:14, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
It seem odd that there is an Epost stub article today - as a user I'd like to benefit from Wikipedia's information about what EPOST can and can't offer me as a user. For some reason a previous page was chopped to one sentence, rather than being improved. Also the stub now seem tied to stamp collecting - an unrelated area. 03:00, 19 February 2015 (UTC) Guus99 ( talk)
I live in another Commonwealth country, and I have found that mail service to Canada is extremely unreliable. Possibly as many as 1 in 10 packages I send there never show up. Canada is one of the few countries that my country's postal service will not insure to. The others being third world Mexico, Brazil, amongst others. I feel this deserves some mention in the article. Davez621 10:24, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
This is the first I've heard of the 1990 rule. I was under the impression that the option for home delivery (rural mailbox by the road) was based on whether you live on a delivery route. If you do, then you can get your mail delivered to your mailbox. Many people prefer the superboxes though, positioning a mailbox is tricky - too far and Canada Post won't deliver; too close and it can be smashed by the snowplow. Pendragon39 19:35, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
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)
How long does it take to ship a parcel from Canada to the US?
128.187.0.165
23:06, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
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.
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)
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)WayneRay
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)
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)
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:
— Wdfarmer ( talk) 03:02, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Contracting states to the Universal Postal Union convention must assure the provision of universal service. In most countries this also requires that letter prices be uniform. Since costs are not uniform there must be a method to balance cost and revenue. In most countries that is assured through a reserved service area or limited scope monopoly. In a few cases, Argentina, New Zealand and most of the European Union there are other means to cover these costs. In Sweden there is a compensation fund into which all market participants may be required to make contributions. In Norway there is a subsidy paid to the incumbent for remote service. In Germany the incumbent which is still majority state owned charges consumers very high prices to offset discounts afforded to business customers. In Argentina following the bankruptcy of the privatized incumbent the state intervened and now uses general tax revenues to assure service outside major centres. Canada is a poor point of comparison to European postal experience due to the vast distances and low population density. The Netherlands has a population density of 330 inhabitants per sq. km. The US 30 and Canada 3. Stadacona ( talk) 19:43, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
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)
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)
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)
Partial Answer: Just Google "canada post green box" (no quotes), but I don't have rights to these photos, so if you want one posted keep asking. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
70.89.244.46 (
talk)
21:37, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
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)
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)
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 Schmedley T* 17:03, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
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)
"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)
This is likely a translation issue - alphabetisation is literacy in French. I guess you don't need a stamp to write to Santa but if you do put a stamp on, it's considered a donation to literacy (though I don't understand how this works). — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
142.161.179.225 (
talk)
19:31, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just added archive links to one external link on
Canada Post. Please take a moment to review
my edit. If necessary, add {{
cbignore}}
after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add {{
nobots|deny=InternetArchiveBot}}
to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.
This message was posted before February 2018.
After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than
regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors
have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{
source check}}
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers. — cyberbot II Talk to my owner:Online 01:31, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
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)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified one external link on Canada Post. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{
Sourcecheck}}
).
This message was posted before February 2018.
After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than
regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors
have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{
source check}}
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot ( Report bug) 22:27, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified 10 external links on Canada Post. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018.
After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than
regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors
have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{
source check}}
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot ( Report bug) 00:57, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
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)
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)
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)
For reference, from USPS [1]: "The Postal Service also delivers through a diverse fleet across the U.S. that includes bikes, boats, planes, helicopters, and even mules."
References
![]() | This article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|
This article reads like a piece of Canada Post propaganda. As many Canadians, myself included, have discovered, Canada Post provides poor service at outrageous prices compared to almost all other countries in a world. In addition to high prices, common complaints include:
- lost and stolen mail (the one incident of mail theft mentioned in the article is not an isolated one)
- mail repeated delivered to the wrong address
- mail delayed at one location for excessive amounts of time (often in the infamous "Mississauga Sortation Plant")
- the lack of a modern tracking system (what are claimed to be tracking numbers on their website are actually just id numbers with limited tracking functionality, which customer service only tells you after they've lost your package)
- fraudulent insurance coverage (even if you buy insurance on an item at the post office, some items are not insurable, which they only tell you after they've lost them)
- extra charges for customs processing ($8 minimum charges by canada post for giving you the privilege of allowing canada customs to charge you duties)
- lying customer service representatives (who like to claim that you mail is stuck at customs to escape responsibility; when you contact customs you then find out that the mail was actually transfered to canada post a week before)
- slow delivery (it can take a week to deliver in the same city!!!)
- mail delivery on only four days of the week (no mail on weekends, and many postmen only work 4 days a week)
- lack of mail delivery to homes in new neighbourhoods
- parcel delivery drivers who drop off missed-package slips without bringing the package from the depot, and without knocking/ringing the door (while you are at home waiting for the package)
- parcel delivery drivers who don't even come by, and let your normal mail carrier give you a missed-package slip
- leaving parcels and mail that require a signature in your mail box or your steps in plain view for anyone to steal
- related to the above, impatient delivery drivers who enter a scribble as your signature themselves, even when you are standing right there (which is probably what they do when you're not there and they dump it on your doorstep too)
- rude employees, particularly customer service
- a dispute resolution process with only one possible outcome -- you lose
- parcels left out in the rain or damaged in transit
- Canada post's ownership and operation of Purolator, which is designed to provide an illusion of competition
If I remember (unlikely), I will try to find sources for some of these assertions, and add them to the article. Some will be easier to prove than others -- it is easy to show that Canada Post has incredibly high prices compared to other postal carriers. For instance, sending a package from destination X outside of Canada to destination Y within Canada using a foreign postal service is almost always cheaper than doing the reverse using Canada Post. However, given the nature of the most of the complaints, I doubt many have much in the way of reliable sources, which is unfortunate. All you need is a quick google search to see how many people have horror stories about Canada Post. --
Ultiam
08:06, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
Adendum: - no mention is ever made as to what happens to the profits of Canada Post — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.100.230.194 ( talk) 13:45, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
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)
... I agree - it's not the best example of Canada Post boxes Themepark
Changed address example for Montreal: no street in Montreal is directionally either NW, NE, SW, SE, N or S. On North/South streets, numbers ascend northward from where the island meets the Saint-Lawrence. East/West streets are numbered with Saint-Laurent street as 0. Streets that cross Saint-Laurent have duplicating civic numbers, so the W and E directional suffixes are used. I'll try to change the addresses so that they correctly reflect their postal codes (seems appropriate given the context). :)
epost redirects here, but the article makes no mention of the service at all .. -- 142.242.2.248 17:09, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
The company epost started as a joint venture of Canada Post and Bank of Montreal. Later Telus invested. Eventually all shares were acquired by Canada Post and the operations were completely absorbed into the management structure of Canada Post. Stadacona ( talk) 19:14, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
It seem odd that there is an Epost stub article today - as a user I'd like to benefit from Wikipedia's information about what EPOST can and can't offer me as a user. For some reason a previous page was chopped to one sentence, rather than being improved. Also the stub now seem tied to stamp collecting - an unrelated area. 03:00, 19 February 2015 (UTC) Guus99 ( talk)
I live in another Commonwealth country, and I have found that mail service to Canada is extremely unreliable. Possibly as many as 1 in 10 packages I send there never show up. Canada is one of the few countries that my country's postal service will not insure to. The others being third world Mexico, Brazil, amongst others. I feel this deserves some mention in the article. Davez621 10:24, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
This is the first I've heard of the 1990 rule. I was under the impression that the option for home delivery (rural mailbox by the road) was based on whether you live on a delivery route. If you do, then you can get your mail delivered to your mailbox. Many people prefer the superboxes though, positioning a mailbox is tricky - too far and Canada Post won't deliver; too close and it can be smashed by the snowplow. Pendragon39 19:35, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
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)
How long does it take to ship a parcel from Canada to the US?
128.187.0.165
23:06, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
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.
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)
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)WayneRay
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)
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)
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:
— Wdfarmer ( talk) 03:02, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Contracting states to the Universal Postal Union convention must assure the provision of universal service. In most countries this also requires that letter prices be uniform. Since costs are not uniform there must be a method to balance cost and revenue. In most countries that is assured through a reserved service area or limited scope monopoly. In a few cases, Argentina, New Zealand and most of the European Union there are other means to cover these costs. In Sweden there is a compensation fund into which all market participants may be required to make contributions. In Norway there is a subsidy paid to the incumbent for remote service. In Germany the incumbent which is still majority state owned charges consumers very high prices to offset discounts afforded to business customers. In Argentina following the bankruptcy of the privatized incumbent the state intervened and now uses general tax revenues to assure service outside major centres. Canada is a poor point of comparison to European postal experience due to the vast distances and low population density. The Netherlands has a population density of 330 inhabitants per sq. km. The US 30 and Canada 3. Stadacona ( talk) 19:43, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
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)
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)
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)
Partial Answer: Just Google "canada post green box" (no quotes), but I don't have rights to these photos, so if you want one posted keep asking. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
70.89.244.46 (
talk)
21:37, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
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)
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)
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 Schmedley T* 17:03, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
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)
"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)
This is likely a translation issue - alphabetisation is literacy in French. I guess you don't need a stamp to write to Santa but if you do put a stamp on, it's considered a donation to literacy (though I don't understand how this works). — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
142.161.179.225 (
talk)
19:31, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just added archive links to one external link on
Canada Post. Please take a moment to review
my edit. If necessary, add {{
cbignore}}
after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add {{
nobots|deny=InternetArchiveBot}}
to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.
This message was posted before February 2018.
After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than
regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors
have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{
source check}}
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers. — cyberbot II Talk to my owner:Online 01:31, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
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)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified one external link on Canada Post. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{
Sourcecheck}}
).
This message was posted before February 2018.
After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than
regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors
have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{
source check}}
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot ( Report bug) 22:27, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified 10 external links on Canada Post. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018.
After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than
regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors
have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{
source check}}
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot ( Report bug) 00:57, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
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)
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)
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)
For reference, from USPS [1]: "The Postal Service also delivers through a diverse fleet across the U.S. that includes bikes, boats, planes, helicopters, and even mules."
References