I, for one, am against privatizing Canada Post. I think it would be a big mistake in a country of this side.
On this website I found a summary of countries that have or are trying to privatize their postal services.
In particular, I think the problems that would arise include:
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In addition, the private competitors will be able to adjust their prices to attract the lowest-cost deliveries, and add surcharges to the high-cost services—though the public postal systems would not be allowed such business flexibility.
Most privatization schemes go even further: allowing the private networks to collect and sort mail, then dumping it on the public postal system for delivery at severely reduced prices.
In essence, the public postal networks have always been granted monopoly status in exchange for universal service (which is costly) and uniform pricing. Under many of these new arrangements, private companies are allowed to compete without those restrictions, while the public systems continue to retain those responsibilities without the benefits given to private competitors.
By privatizing Canada Post we could eventually lose both universal service and universal pricing. Many of our rural Canadians might not receive any postal service at all, or if they do it might become very expensive.
Considering this, I would like to see what arguments exist that we should privatize Canada Post, and additional arguments as to why we should not.
This post has been edited by Chuck U. Farlie: 17 December 2008 - 12:31 PM

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