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Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 10d

Nobody has a way with words like Cory Doctorow. If you’re not reading his free newsletter Pluralistic, what are you even doing with your life #AI

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Screenshot with highlighted text: “AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”

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Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 10d

Try the subreddit r/CanadaPostCorp - it’s the non-evil one 🙃

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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 11d

“We should want to take advantage of the post office’s unique, nationwide infrastructure to provide more and better services to Canadians instead of dismantling something that we may never be able to rebuild.” @parismarx.com

Planning the obsolescence of Canada Post

There is an unwillingness to entertain a future in which Canada Post’s role can evolve to serve the needs of Canadians. The degradation of delivery work by Amazon is accepted as a fait accompli, inste...

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Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 11d

Funny you mention that. Take a look at this website made by the CUPW union which outlines some of their ideas for a modern postal service: www.deliveringcommunitypower.ca

Sadly, this isn’t even being talked about in the negotiations because #CanadaPost won’t even agree to basic job protections.

Delivering Community Power

Reimagining Canada Post with services to support every community.

www.deliveringcommunitypower.ca

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Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks for adding your perspective! I agree, it is so sad what our neoliberal politicians have allowed to happen to our postal service & other public institutions. From your perspective, what policy changes would you suggest to get from where we are now to where we want to be?

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Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 11d

Absolutely, and that’s the case here, too. But the point is that it’s a formalized program providing an additional income stream, and posties will pop in for a half hour for a cup of tea etc. I encourage you to read the full article.

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Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 11d

So true!

Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 11d

Absolutely! The sky’s the limit on services we can offer in the public interest 🙌

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Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 12d

Yes, postal banking is another potential innovation & income stream for #CanadaPost - something the union themselves have also advocated for!

www.cupw.ca/en/campaign/...

Postal Banking – A Bank for Everyone (Fact Sheet)

Postal banking is the provision of financial and banking services through a post office. It is not a new or radical idea. Postal banks already exist in many parts of the world where they are used to: ...

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Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 12d

Precisely!!! We will lose in a race to the bottom! But that doesn’t mean we cannot adapt our valuable public services for the modern era.

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Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 12d

This, in fact, is not America. It’s Canada, where we do not worry about getting shot in our daily lives. Hope that helps.

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Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 12d

If you don’t care to comment with relevant points for the current discussion (the Canadian postal service), kindly refrain from commenting at all ✌️

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Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 12d

You get it !!! I cannot believe the number of people in my comments that completely miss the point.

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Erin Wraithburn 👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 12d

"In some places, French postal workers now pick up prescriptions, return library books, and deliver flowers. Last year, only twenty eight per cent of La Poste’s revenue came from sending mail."

Services can evolve in positive ways to meet new and growing needs.

Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 13d

For those who wonder what a modern postal service could look like, one example is in France, where letter carriers provide check-ins on the elderly for very affordable rates, while completing their routes.

I encourage everyone to read the whole thing

#CanadaPost

www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...

In France, Elder Care Comes with the Mail

Carriers for La Poste have a new job: checking in on the aged.

www.newyorker.com

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Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 12d

This article is an example of what a public postal service adapted for the needs of a modern era could look like; it is not a prescription for what we must exactly do here in Canada.

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Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 12d

Yes, our public institutions must adapt to modern times. I invite you to take a look at the article linked below for an example of what a modern postal service could look like. Yesterday’s announcement is not about “transformation”, it is a step towards privatization.

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Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 13d

For those who wonder what a modern postal service could look like, one example is in France, where letter carriers provide check-ins on the elderly for very affordable rates, while completing their routes.

I encourage everyone to read the whole thing

#CanadaPost

www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...

In France, Elder Care Comes with the Mail

Carriers for La Poste have a new job: checking in on the aged.

www.newyorker.com

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 12d

It’s absolutely right that workers walk off the job in response to the government taking a chainsaw to Canada Post.

If we lose the unique national infrastructure the postal service has, it will never be rebuilt. We should be using it to expand services to the public, not nickel and diming it.

Canada Post workers walking off the job after government demands reforms | CBC News

The union representing Canada's postal workers has called for a cross-country strike in the wake of the federal government announcing major reforms to Canada Post.

www.cbc.ca

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Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 12d

Yes, our public services must change to adapt to modern times. This is not adaptation or innovation, it is a giant step towards dismantling our public postal service - forever.

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Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 13d

For those who wonder what a modern postal service could look like, one example is in France, where letter carriers provide check-ins on the elderly for very affordable rates, while completing their routes.

I encourage everyone to read the whole thing

#CanadaPost

www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...

In France, Elder Care Comes with the Mail

Carriers for La Poste have a new job: checking in on the aged.

www.newyorker.com

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Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 13d

For those who say “it would never work here!” the article describes how the postal service in France was facing decreases in lettermail (like here) & budgetary pressures. This program is an innovative way to modernize the system while adding a new income stream. Privatization is NOT the only option!

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Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 13d

For those who wonder what a modern postal service could look like, one example is in France, where letter carriers provide check-ins on the elderly for very affordable rates, while completing their routes.

I encourage everyone to read the whole thing

#CanadaPost

www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...

In France, Elder Care Comes with the Mail

Carriers for La Poste have a new job: checking in on the aged.

www.newyorker.com

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AlexSolak @alexsolak.bsky.social · 13d

The mail shouldn't make money, it is a service like hospitals and roads and the armed forces.

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Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 13d

Whelp….. that didn’t age well.

#CanadaPost

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Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 13d

Even the CBC framing on this news is shameful. They take as fact that the corporation’s money woes are inevitable & this “transformation” is needed & necessary when nothing could be further from the truth.

Yes, our institutions need to CHANGE with the times, but this isn’t it 😤

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 13d

The government is reducing service standards and Canada Post’s biggest advantage: its nationwide network.

This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.

Liberal government frees Canada Post to end home delivery, close some post offices | CBC News

With Canada Post on track to lose $1.5 billion in 2025 and contract discussions between the union and the corporation stalled, the federal government is embarking on a modernization plan it says will ...

www.cbc.ca

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Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂) @juliennedanvers.bsky.social · 13d

Make no mistake, this is a giant step towards complete privatization of our postal service.

We could have pride in our vital public institutions & build them up to meet our modern needs. But no, instead, our “liberal” gov’t would prefer to be conservatives.

#CanadaPost

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Canada Post free to end home delivery as part of plan to ensure carrier’s survival | CBC

www.cbc.ca

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