John
Think you are being a bit negative. $109 million is not a huge loss for an organization that large. Have had occasion to use their competitors a few times recently and remain convinced that good management and some astute marketing could turn things around there. That said, I don't think they use their philatelic customers very well; could do a lot better job of stamp issuance and stocking their outlets.
I will say that my local little post office usually has a good stock and the staff let me come in and hand cancel things at will. One or two of them are collectors.
" .... Canadian Brutalism ...."
Really ?
What a concept.
I kind of liked it... but I am as well, an Art Deco sort of chap.
David
Compassionate readers:
In Canada, only injured or sick animals benefit from assisted suicide; for everyone and everything else,
there is no mercy. This small news clipping portends great sorrows:
No, a cyanide solution won't be administered, and tough decisions
are never made in the run-up to a national election. Instead, tax dollars
will keep Canada Post on life support until the next federal election,
following which I predict this "final solution" to prevail within five
years or less.
Our few remaining post office buildings* will be sold.
Postal supplies and services will only be available at postal outlets
located in shopping-centre commercial establishments. The
postal system entire will be privatized (sold off). The privatized
postal system will quickly convert to just another commercial
courier company. Postage stamps aren't needed in this non-postal
environment.
John Derry
*An architectural footnote on Canada's post office buildings, most of
which have been sold or occupied by other federal government
departments. The majority were constructed during the Great
Depression, with the remainder built shortly after the
Second World War - massive, imposing statements of our
national identity, "Canadian brutalism" in architecture-speak.
(This architecture is similar to Italy's "heavy fascist" style.)
Canada postage stamp, Scott#431, is a pluperfect
illustration of this bomb-shelter architecture:
re: Forecasting a lingering afterlife for a hollowed-out philatelic zombie
John
Think you are being a bit negative. $109 million is not a huge loss for an organization that large. Have had occasion to use their competitors a few times recently and remain convinced that good management and some astute marketing could turn things around there. That said, I don't think they use their philatelic customers very well; could do a lot better job of stamp issuance and stocking their outlets.
I will say that my local little post office usually has a good stock and the staff let me come in and hand cancel things at will. One or two of them are collectors.
re: Forecasting a lingering afterlife for a hollowed-out philatelic zombie
" .... Canadian Brutalism ...."
Really ?
What a concept.
re: Forecasting a lingering afterlife for a hollowed-out philatelic zombie
I kind of liked it... but I am as well, an Art Deco sort of chap.
David