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sakic92710 · ‎11-15-2024

Just another way for the postal system to screw over Canadians. First, we have to pay through the nose for cross border shipping which makes it much more difficult to sell cheaper items. Who wants to pay $5-8 for something when it costs $10 to mail it? Now our chances to make more sales drops off a cliff - for how long??? I have 2 Marketplace buyers who want their items shipped. Guess they won't be buying now! Just so in love with life right now. One punch in the face after another. It must be so difficult to make ends meet on $30 an hour! How about trying it on $50 a week?!!

sin-n-dex · ‎11-15-2024

@sakic92710 wrote:
Just another way for the postal system to screw over Canadians. First, we have to pay through the nose for cross border shipping which makes it much more difficult to sell cheaper items. Who wants to pay $5-8 for something when it costs $10 to mail it? Now our chances to make more sales drops off a cliff - for how long??? I have 2 Marketplace buyers who want their items shipped. Guess they won't be buying now! Just so in love with life right now. One punch in the face after another. It must be so difficult to make ends meet on $30 an hour! How about trying it on $50 a week?!!

I'm in the same boat as you (being in Canada with the strike). I started a whole thread a few days ago when the strike notice was given to warn sellers to stop Canada sales for right now... hopefully it won't be too long, since some of us have sales to Canada. (And I have friends who are doing mail order on their website who are going to be losing sales and suffering as a result of the strike).

$30 and hour is 60K a year, which is 5K a month. In Toronto a mortgage can cost 5K a month. There are Canada Post employees in Toronto.

C.

inhawaii · ‎11-15-2024

Would you like to borrow our President elect?

He can fix that in one day.

Sea Of Love - The Honeydrippers

sin-n-dex · ‎11-15-2024

@inhawaii wrote:
Would you like to borrow our President elect?
He can fix that in one day.

Our government is not getting involved with the strike. We have a minority government and they need support from another political party to get involved with forcing Canada Post workers back to work (and one party has already said they will not help).

I'm fortunately not in for very much money if my buyers file INRs (the one that slipped through was the highest sale... $27 in banknotes). I kind of wish that didn't happen, but it allowed me to come here and sort that out so I could make sure Canada sales are blocked. I just don't need the stress of upset buyers when there's nothing anyone can do about it.

C.

doc-holmes · ‎11-15-2024

@inhawaii wrote:
Would you like to borrow our President elect?
He can fix that in one day.

Big fat no.

reallynicestamps · ‎11-15-2024

The workers went for a full on strike instead of the rotating strikes they used the last time. (I lost over 17c in bets on that one.)
This likely means a faster settlement, since the postal service if fully shut down.

The argument is over an 11% raise (over four years) offered by management and a 22% demand from CUPW.

The offer barely covers inflation over the past four years, and the demand brings income up to previous buying power and allows for future relatively low inflation.

FWIW- we cannot print eBay/Canada Post discounted labels and courier (UPS etc) are about 75% higher.
We can print Snap Ship labels if we have Solutions for Small Business accounts, but those labels are about 25% higher than eBay's negotiated discount.

In any case, nothing will be moving over the weekend.

The NDP is against binding arbitration and condemned the Liberals for forcing dockworkers back this week.

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6565895

https://www.ndp.ca/news/ndp-stands-postal-workers-fighting-better-working-conditions