OT: Canadians asked to accept spam?!

[William Muriithi]

> - Any mail service can become highly competitive if it starts delivering
> small parcels to people's doors. Size should be limited, standard padded
> envelope, etc, but 90% of gadgets home delivered can be delivered by the
> post office. One such overgrown post office 'offspring' is DHL which
> literally a spawn of the German state mail system's privatized splinter.
We
> all know who DHL is. Why not Canada Parcel Post? Chop some red tape and
> union pie and you have it. Plus Canada really needs such a service due to
> its size imho.

Petty good observations.  I think too that a natural carrier is necessary
in order  not to disadvantage those far away from cities.

Sure, private carriers can provide the service, but they would either
ignore the sparsely populated regions or charge them steeply.  That may be
fine with most but I  don't see how it would be net positive to the
economy.  Government are supposed to be effective, while private industry
thrives on efficiency. Somehow those two are exclusive to each other.
>
>
> - I was not happy, while in Canada, that small post offices were
franchised
> to people (in central .TO) who barely spoke English. I'd expect people who
> operate a post office to be fluent in at least one of the national
> languages, and possibly take an appropriate exam in that domain to be
> licensed or franchised. Same thing for pharmacy clerks, imho., and both
with
> VERY good reason. I have my experiences there too. Scary ones.
>

Partially agree, the franchise model do allow for increased availability.
Would be hard to open that many offices for that long - they are open till
9 PM - without costing them serious money.

The problem with language has also to do with cost. If they pay well, then
the job would attract those with perfect language skills. But I guess that
would drive the mailing cost up, so willing to work with them. Heck I have
horrible accent too, so I guess I can't criticize anybody for sounding
funny.

> It's all so simple and so easy when viewed from a distance. A 'new pair of
> eyes'?
>
> -- Peter
>
>

William
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