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{{Infobox_Company |company_name = Canada Post Corporation- Société canadienne des postes| company_logo = ] | company_type = [Crown Corporation | company_slogan = From anywhere... to anyone. | key_people = '''Moya Greene''', President and CEO;

'''Donald Woodley''' Chairperson of the Board | num_employees = 72,000 | foundation = 1981 | location = [Ottawa,[Ontario,[Canada| industry = [Mail| products = [Mail, [Courier, [Logistics | homepage = http://www.canadapost.ca Canadapost.ca -->

Canada Post Corporation (French language: Société canadienne des postes) is a Canada postal service operated as a crown corporation. The successor to the Post Office Department (Canada) of the Government of Canada, Canada Post was created on October 16, 1981 by the Canada Post Corporation Act to set a new direction for the postal service, creating more reliable service and ensuring the postal service's financial security and independence. Canada Post Corporation Act Part I Section 5

About Canada Post

Every business day, Canada Post provides service to 14 million addresses, delivering 40 million items. Delivery takes place via traditional "to the door" service by 15,000 letter carriers, supplemented by approximately 6,000 vehicle routes in rural and suburban areas, and truck delivery of parcels in urban areas. There are 6,800 post offices across the country, a combination of corporate offices and franchises which are operated by private retailers in conjunction with a host retail business, such as a drugstore. In terms of area serviced, Canada Post delivers to a larger area than the postal service of any other nation, including Russia (where service in Siberia is limited largely to communities along the railroad).

On a consolidated basis, the Corporation processed 11.6 billion pieces during year 2006. Consolidated revenue from operations reached $7.3 billion and consolidated net income totalled $119 million. To compete effectively, Canada Post operates as a group of companies called The Canada Post Group. It employs 72,000 full and part-time employees to deliver a full range of delivery, logistics and fulfillment services to customers. The Corporation holds an interest in Purolator Courier, Innovapost, Progistix-Solutions and Canada Post International Limited.

Canada Post (French: Postes Canada) is the Federal Identity Program name. The legal name is Canada Post Corporation in English language and Société canadienne des postes in French language.

History See also Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Canada Mail delivery first started in Canada in 1693 when Pedro da Silva was paid to deliver mail between Quebec City and Montreal. Official postal services began in 1775, under the control of the British Government up to 1851. The first postage stamp (designed by Sir Sandford Fleming) went into circulation in Canada that same year. It was not until 1867 when the newly formed Dominion of Canada created the Post Office Department as a federal government department (The Act for the Regulation of the Postal Service). It took effect April 1, 1868, providing uniform postal service throughout the newly established country. The Canadian post office was designed around the British service as created by Sir Rowland Hill (postal reformer), who introduced the concept of charging mail by weight and not destination along with creating the concept of the postage stamp.

Canada Post started early with airmail, with the first airmail flight taking place on June 24, 1918 carrying mail from Montreal to Toronto. Regular airmail service began in 1928.

. Photographed in 2007.

The 1970s was a tough decade for Canada Post, with major strikes combined with annual deficits that had hit $600 million by 1981. This state of affairs made politicians want to rethink their strategy for the federal department. It resulted in two years of public debate and input into the future of mail delivery in Canada. The government sought to give the post office more autonomy, in order to make it more commercially viable and to compete against the new threat of private courier services. On October 16, 1981, the Federal Parliament passed the "Canada Post Corporation Act", which transformed Canada Post into a Crown corporation to create the Canada Post Corporation (CPC). The legislation also includes a measure that legally guarantees basic postal service to all Canadians. It stipulates that all Canadians have the right to expect mail delivery, regardless of where they live.

Several historical sites related to the history of Canada Post can be visited today. In Ontario, the first Toronto Post Office is still in operation. The site of the Air Canada Centre was once the Canada Post Delivery Building. Also notable are the Vancouver Main Post Office and the Dawson, Yukon, Post Office, a National Historic Site of Canada.

Timeline

Mail format

Any letter sent within Canada has the destination address on the centre of its envelope, with a Postage stamp, indicia, meter label, or franking mark on the top-right corner of the envelope to acknowledge payment of postage. A return address, although it is not required, can be put on the top-left corner of the envelope in smaller type than the destination address.

Official addressing protocol is for the address to be in block letters, using a fixed-pitch typeface (such as Courier). The first line(s) of the address contains the personal name and internal address of the recipient. The second-to-last line is the post office box, general delivery indicator, or street address, using the shortened name of the street type and no punctuation. The last line consists of the legal place name, a single space, the two-letter province abbreviation, two full spaces, and then the Canadian postal code. If mailed within Canada, the country is not necessarily indicated at the bottom.

Examples:

the provided name is fictitious

{| width=100% style="font-family: monospace;"| width=50% valign=top | JOHN JONES
MARKETING DEPT
10-321 1/2 MAIN ST W
MONTRÉAL QC  H3Z 2Y7
 | width=50% valign=top | JOHN JONES
1234 MAIN ST
PO BOX 4001 STN A
VICTORIA BC  V8X 3X4|-| width=50% valign=top | JOHN JONES
1234 7TH CONCESSION
SITE 6 COMP 10
RR 8 STN MAIN
MILLARVILLE AB  T0L 1K0| width=50% valign=top | JOHN JONES
GD STN MAIN
WALKERTON ON  N0G 2V0|}

Major products and services The Corporation has a directory of all its products and services called the Postal Guide and has divided its range of services into three main categories: Transction Mail, Parcels and Direct Marketing.

Transaction mail The lettermail service allows the transmission of virtually any paper document. The basic rate is currently set at 52 cents for one standard letter (30g or less) and is regulated by a price-cap formula, linked to the inflation rate.Under the price-cap formula approved by the federal government in 2000, basic letter rate increases, when warranted, will not exceed 66.67% of inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index from May prior to the last increase to May of the current year. Increases will be implemented no more than once a year, in January, and announced no later than July 1 in the year before the increase goes into effect in the Canada Gazette Part I. The Corporation has recently introduced a “permanent” stamp that retains its value forever, eliminating the need to buy 1 cent stamps after a rate increase.The rates for lettermail are based or weight and size and determine whether the article falls into the aforementioned standard format, or in the oversize one.

Canada Post maintains that Canada has one of the lowest basic letter rates in the world because government regulation caps increases for this at below inflation. All other rates are not capped and have generally been increasing above the rate of inflation.

Mail sent internationally is known as letterpost. It can only contain paper documents (See Light Packet and Small Packet below). The rate for a standard letter is of 93 cents if sent to the United States, and $1.55 if sent to any other destination.

Parcels Domestic Canada Post offers four domestic parcel services. The rates are based on distance, weight and size. The maximum acceptable weight is 30 kg.

Regular Parcel

Expedited Parcel

Xpresspost

Priority Courier

International Light Packet

Small Packet

Expedited Parcel USA

Xpresspost-USA and International

International Parcel

Direct marketing Addressed Admail

Unaddressed Admail

Digital postage meter Effective June 30 2007, Canada Post requires that all postage meters be digital, with a Postage Security Device. The Digital Postage Meter prints a 2D barcode in the meter impression, strengthening security.

Choosing Canada’s stamps Although Canada Post is responsible for stamp design and production, the corporation does not actually choose the subjects or the final designs that appear on stamps.That task falls under the jurisdiction of the Stamp Advisory Committee. Their objective is to recommend a stamp program that will have broad-based appeal, regionally and culturally, reflecting Canadian history, heritage, and tradition.Canada's Stamp Details, pp.16-17, January to March 2005, Volume XIV, No. 1

Before Canada Post calls a meeting of the committee, it also welcomes suggestions for stamp subjects from Canadian citizens. Ideas for subjects that have recently appeared on a stamp are declined. The committee works two years in advance and can approve approximately 20 subjects for each year.a

Once a stamp subject is selected, Canada Post’s Stamp Products group conducts research. Designs are commissioned from two firms, both chosen for their expertise. The designs are presented anonymously to the committee.aThe committee’s process and selection policy have changed little in the thirty years since it was introduced.

Noted stamps

Major postal plant locations

Organizational issues Labour troubles Canada Post has a history of troubled labour relations with its trade unions, particularly the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and the Letter Carriers Union of Canada (which merged with CUPW in 1989) culminating in periodic strike action which has brought mail service in Canada to a halt. There have been at least 19 strikes, lockouts and walkouts between 1965 and 2005 including several wildcat strikes. A number of these strikes have seen the corporation employ strikebreakers and most, since the 1970s, have resulted in back-to-work legislation being passed by the Canadian parliament.

Canada Post was also the setting for one of the most controversial labour rulings of recent years. After several prosecutions for theft at Mississauga, Ontario Gateway Postal Plant, the union won a ruling from a labour board that the workers involved could not be dismissed as the length of the investigation exceeded the ten-day limit in the collective agreement under which any allegation of misconduct had to be brought to the attention of the worker. Although the ruling was reversed on appeal, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that although the decision may have been incorrect, it was not so totally without merit that the labour board's decision should be overturned . The court noted the language was in the collective agreement to keep supervisors from holding infractions over the head of a worker indefinitely.

Recently, however, Canada Post has begun to emerge from its labour troubles. In 2007, the corporation was named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers, as published in Maclean's magazine.

Rural Mail Concerns over safety of rural mobile delivery personnel on busy roads has been an ongoing concern. To protect employees, the corporation has had mail moved to relocated mail box or centralized to community mail boxes. Relocating the mail delivery generated complaints to federally elected officials. In December 2006, the Conservative minority government ordered that Canada Post maintain rural delivery wherever possible.

Modernization Moya Greene, the CEO of Canada Post, has been quoted as saying that years of under-investment to improve the company has hurt its efficiency and its financial performance. In September 2007, she estimated that modernizing the corporation would cost $2.7-billion over five to seven years for new buildings, equipment, technology and training.

See also

Footnotes

External links

Personnel representation

fr:Postes Canada

{{Infobox_Company |company_name = Canada Post Corporation- Société canadienne des postes| company_logo = ] | company_type = [Crown Corporation | company_slogan = From anywhere... to anyone. | key_people = '''Moya Greene''', President and CEO;

'''Donald Woodley''' Chairperson of the Board | num_employees = 72,000 | foundation = 1981 | location = [Ottawa,[Ontario,[Canada| industry = [Mail| products = [Mail, [Courier, [Logistics | homepage = http://www.canadapost.ca Canadapost.ca -->

Canada Post Corporation (French language: Société canadienne des postes) is a Canada postal service operated as a crown corporation. The successor to the Post Office Department (Canada) of the Government of Canada, Canada Post was created on October 16, 1981 by the Canada Post Corporation Act to set a new direction for the postal service, creating more reliable service and ensuring the postal service's financial security and independence. Canada Post Corporation Act Part I Section 5

About Canada Post

Every business day, Canada Post provides service to 14 million addresses, delivering 40 million items. Delivery takes place via traditional "to the door" service by 15,000 letter carriers, supplemented by approximately 6,000 vehicle routes in rural and suburban areas, and truck delivery of parcels in urban areas. There are 6,800 post offices across the country, a combination of corporate offices and franchises which are operated by private retailers in conjunction with a host retail business, such as a drugstore. In terms of area serviced, Canada Post delivers to a larger area than the postal service of any other nation, including Russia (where service in Siberia is limited largely to communities along the railroad).

On a consolidated basis, the Corporation processed 11.6 billion pieces during year 2006. Consolidated revenue from operations reached $7.3 billion and consolidated net income totalled $119 million. To compete effectively, Canada Post operates as a group of companies called The Canada Post Group. It employs 72,000 full and part-time employees to deliver a full range of delivery, logistics and fulfillment services to customers. The Corporation holds an interest in Purolator Courier, Innovapost, Progistix-Solutions and Canada Post International Limited.

Canada Post (French: Postes Canada) is the Federal Identity Program name. The legal name is Canada Post Corporation in English language and Société canadienne des postes in French language.

History See also Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Canada Mail delivery first started in Canada in 1693 when Pedro da Silva was paid to deliver mail between Quebec City and Montreal. Official postal services began in 1775, under the control of the British Government up to 1851. The first postage stamp (designed by Sir Sandford Fleming) went into circulation in Canada that same year. It was not until 1867 when the newly formed Dominion of Canada created the Post Office Department as a federal government department (The Act for the Regulation of the Postal Service). It took effect April 1, 1868, providing uniform postal service throughout the newly established country. The Canadian post office was designed around the British service as created by Sir Rowland Hill (postal reformer), who introduced the concept of charging mail by weight and not destination along with creating the concept of the postage stamp.

Canada Post started early with airmail, with the first airmail flight taking place on June 24, 1918 carrying mail from Montreal to Toronto. Regular airmail service began in 1928.

. Photographed in 2007.

The 1970s was a tough decade for Canada Post, with major strikes combined with annual deficits that had hit $600 million by 1981. This state of affairs made politicians want to rethink their strategy for the federal department. It resulted in two years of public debate and input into the future of mail delivery in Canada. The government sought to give the post office more autonomy, in order to make it more commercially viable and to compete against the new threat of private courier services. On October 16, 1981, the Federal Parliament passed the "Canada Post Corporation Act", which transformed Canada Post into a Crown corporation to create the Canada Post Corporation (CPC). The legislation also includes a measure that legally guarantees basic postal service to all Canadians. It stipulates that all Canadians have the right to expect mail delivery, regardless of where they live.

Several historical sites related to the history of Canada Post can be visited today. In Ontario, the first Toronto Post Office is still in operation. The site of the Air Canada Centre was once the Canada Post Delivery Building. Also notable are the Vancouver Main Post Office and the Dawson, Yukon, Post Office, a National Historic Site of Canada.

Timeline

Mail format

Any letter sent within Canada has the destination address on the centre of its envelope, with a Postage stamp, indicia, meter label, or franking mark on the top-right corner of the envelope to acknowledge payment of postage. A return address, although it is not required, can be put on the top-left corner of the envelope in smaller type than the destination address.

Official addressing protocol is for the address to be in block letters, using a fixed-pitch typeface (such as Courier). The first line(s) of the address contains the personal name and internal address of the recipient. The second-to-last line is the post office box, general delivery indicator, or street address, using the shortened name of the street type and no punctuation. The last line consists of the legal place name, a single space, the two-letter province abbreviation, two full spaces, and then the Canadian postal code. If mailed within Canada, the country is not necessarily indicated at the bottom.

Examples:

the provided name is fictitious

{| width=100% style="font-family: monospace;"| width=50% valign=top | JOHN JONES
MARKETING DEPT
10-321 1/2 MAIN ST W
MONTRÉAL QC  H3Z 2Y7
 | width=50% valign=top | JOHN JONES
1234 MAIN ST
PO BOX 4001 STN A
VICTORIA BC  V8X 3X4|-| width=50% valign=top | JOHN JONES
1234 7TH CONCESSION
SITE 6 COMP 10
RR 8 STN MAIN
MILLARVILLE AB  T0L 1K0| width=50% valign=top | JOHN JONES
GD STN MAIN
WALKERTON ON  N0G 2V0|}

Major products and services The Corporation has a directory of all its products and services called the Postal Guide and has divided its range of services into three main categories: Transction Mail, Parcels and Direct Marketing.

Transaction mail The lettermail service allows the transmission of virtually any paper document. The basic rate is currently set at 52 cents for one standard letter (30g or less) and is regulated by a price-cap formula, linked to the inflation rate.Under the price-cap formula approved by the federal government in 2000, basic letter rate increases, when warranted, will not exceed 66.67% of inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index from May prior to the last increase to May of the current year. Increases will be implemented no more than once a year, in January, and announced no later than July 1 in the year before the increase goes into effect in the Canada Gazette Part I. The Corporation has recently introduced a “permanent” stamp that retains its value forever, eliminating the need to buy 1 cent stamps after a rate increase.The rates for lettermail are based or weight and size and determine whether the article falls into the aforementioned standard format, or in the oversize one.

Canada Post maintains that Canada has one of the lowest basic letter rates in the world because government regulation caps increases for this at below inflation. All other rates are not capped and have generally been increasing above the rate of inflation.

Mail sent internationally is known as letterpost. It can only contain paper documents (See Light Packet and Small Packet below). The rate for a standard letter is of 93 cents if sent to the United States, and $1.55 if sent to any other destination.

Parcels Domestic Canada Post offers four domestic parcel services. The rates are based on distance, weight and size. The maximum acceptable weight is 30 kg.

Regular Parcel

Expedited Parcel

Xpresspost

Priority Courier

International Light Packet

Small Packet

Expedited Parcel USA

Xpresspost-USA and International

International Parcel

Direct marketing Addressed Admail

Unaddressed Admail

Digital postage meter Effective June 30 2007, Canada Post requires that all postage meters be digital, with a Postage Security Device. The Digital Postage Meter prints a 2D barcode in the meter impression, strengthening security.

Choosing Canada’s stamps Although Canada Post is responsible for stamp design and production, the corporation does not actually choose the subjects or the final designs that appear on stamps.That task falls under the jurisdiction of the Stamp Advisory Committee. Their objective is to recommend a stamp program that will have broad-based appeal, regionally and culturally, reflecting Canadian history, heritage, and tradition.Canada's Stamp Details, pp.16-17, January to March 2005, Volume XIV, No. 1

Before Canada Post calls a meeting of the committee, it also welcomes suggestions for stamp subjects from Canadian citizens. Ideas for subjects that have recently appeared on a stamp are declined. The committee works two years in advance and can approve approximately 20 subjects for each year.a

Once a stamp subject is selected, Canada Post’s Stamp Products group conducts research. Designs are commissioned from two firms, both chosen for their expertise. The designs are presented anonymously to the committee.aThe committee’s process and selection policy have changed little in the thirty years since it was introduced.

Noted stamps

Major postal plant locations

Organizational issues Labour troubles Canada Post has a history of troubled labour relations with its trade unions, particularly the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and the Letter Carriers Union of Canada (which merged with CUPW in 1989) culminating in periodic strike action which has brought mail service in Canada to a halt. There have been at least 19 strikes, lockouts and walkouts between 1965 and 2005 including several wildcat strikes. A number of these strikes have seen the corporation employ strikebreakers and most, since the 1970s, have resulted in back-to-work legislation being passed by the Canadian parliament.

Canada Post was also the setting for one of the most controversial labour rulings of recent years. After several prosecutions for theft at Mississauga, Ontario Gateway Postal Plant, the union won a ruling from a labour board that the workers involved could not be dismissed as the length of the investigation exceeded the ten-day limit in the collective agreement under which any allegation of misconduct had to be brought to the attention of the worker. Although the ruling was reversed on appeal, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that although the decision may have been incorrect, it was not so totally without merit that the labour board's decision should be overturned . The court noted the language was in the collective agreement to keep supervisors from holding infractions over the head of a worker indefinitely.

Recently, however, Canada Post has begun to emerge from its labour troubles. In 2007, the corporation was named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers, as published in Maclean's magazine.

Rural Mail Concerns over safety of rural mobile delivery personnel on busy roads has been an ongoing concern. To protect employees, the corporation has had mail moved to relocated mail box or centralized to community mail boxes. Relocating the mail delivery generated complaints to federally elected officials. In December 2006, the Conservative minority government ordered that Canada Post maintain rural delivery wherever possible.

Modernization Moya Greene, the CEO of Canada Post, has been quoted as saying that years of under-investment to improve the company has hurt its efficiency and its financial performance. In September 2007, she estimated that modernizing the corporation would cost $2.7-billion over five to seven years for new buildings, equipment, technology and training.

See also

Footnotes

External links

Personnel representation

fr:Postes Canada



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