Postal workers protest

Dozens of postal workers rallied outside Hamilton’s federal building Monday afternoon to protest plans for the end of door-to-door urban delivery.

They’re opposed to the plan Canada Post announced mid-December. It phases out door-to-door service and raises the cost of stamps to 85 cents this April. Protests have been scheduled in cities across the country to coincide with the return of Parliament from its Christmas break. Protesters are pointing fingers at Prime Minister Harper saying the logic behind the service reduction is flawed.

Terry Langley is the Acting President of the local Canadian Union of Postal Workers: “There’s no justification or validation for the changes that they want to make. Canada Post is a highly profitable corporation. They’ve been riding 16 years of record profits off of times when other postal institutions have been losing money. We’re being told that we’re the only industrialized nation that cannot financially sustain door-to-door delivery and that just doesn’t hold up.”

Postal workers estimate the end of door-to-door service cold eliminate as many as eight thousand jobs.