I'm starting to feel a little concerned about the ongoing Postal Strike. As a business located in a rural location, I depend heavily on the postal system for outgoing packages. Using a courier is immensely expensive when dealing with rural pickups - generally 3 to 4 times more expensive than post. I'm kind of surprised there hasn't been more talk in the news about this kind of problem. Here in Shawnigan Lake, there are many many home based business that I see sending packages out every day. I'm sure this must be the case across Canada in small towns.
I can't say that I have a strong opinion about which way the strike should go - I can understand the concerns of both sides. It's obvious that letter mail has had it's day. That being said, Canada Post has amazing infrastructure to dominate the package delivery system - just too much bureaucracy to get it done. I think the only thing that could really devastate Canada Post would be the invention of matter transport (like Star Trek). That's probably a little ways off.
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In theory matter transport is awesome but in practice it is still in the stages where shit just burns up or gets ridiculously hot and even then it doesn't go anywhere.
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