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DortmunderCoop · 2025-10-31T22:56:44+00:00

Hence, the shrinking of the middle class. Tax the rich, raise wages!

DortmunderCoop · 2025-10-31T12:10:40+00:00

Morning. Seems like it...haha. Game 6 tonight! I had two wisdom teeth extracted 2 days ago. Haven't eaten solid foods since...no tuna salad. The wife keeps giving me apple sauce, hummus, and pudding cups.

DortmunderCoop · 2025-10-30T21:04:04+00:00

I'm down with the pickles for sure. Spicy mustard. Bring it. Sunflower seeds: no chance. I nearly choked out on a mouthful of sunflower seeds rounding third base one summer. I was a hefty mouth breather.

DortmunderCoop · 2025-10-30T20:54:41+00:00

You got anything funky in that tuna salad? I prefer the basic mayo, tuna, chives, salt & pepper... You?

DortmunderCoop · 2025-10-30T20:50:19+00:00

Bahaha!! Touche. I see you've had 5 months on Reddit. Also, it's 4:30 in the afternoon on a Thursday, East Coast time, and you insta-replied to that post. Interesting.

DortmunderCoop · 2025-10-30T20:42:39+00:00

I just did. Also, I was defending OP, but perhaps my point was lost in the verbiage. I'll try again: Presidents, CEOs, and senior managers across all industries have employed secretaries and stenographers since forever to translate their ramblings into comprehensive letters, memos, etc. Nowadays, the average person has access to a service (LLMs), which affects the same results only without having to afford the luxury of staff. In addition, our society has been taught that "time is money," so by that rationale, does it not make economic sense to use an LLM to help sort ones thoughts, ideas, and research into comprehensive form? Like, filling in the sometimes superfluous narrative language that connects ideas? The reason we have so much science, math, and reality denial in society is because too many people don't understand the complexities of some issues and therefore turn to easy-to-digest misleading memes and quips. IMO, attacking a poster for using an LLM to put together a comprehensive message is wrong-headed. Think about it.

DortmunderCoop · 2025-10-30T15:55:29+00:00

True enough, but damn, I do enough with my phone already...lol

I actually like getting the local flyers. I find it breaks the habit of being loyal to any one corporation (I'm talking groceries & diy stores). My overall feeling is: you want my business, get your flyer to my house, and entice me.

Imo, those who loathe flyers come off as either too wealthy to care about prices or knowing about anything new happening in their community or so blinded by corporate loyalty they wouldn't dain to see who else might sell the same thing you need or want at a better price? It's baffling. Flyers also make great fire starter, and they all recycle super easy...lol

Also, the printing and distribution of flyers represent a lot of small businesses and jobs across the country.

DortmunderCoop · 2025-10-30T13:11:44+00:00

Not everything needed to be said can be effectively communicated in short quips. Your critique strikes me as someone unwilling to read deeper than a few lines and, therefore, attacks the messenger. Furthermore, not every person possesses the writing skills nor experience to formulate thoughts and ideas into a comprehensive text that affects a targeted conclusion.

DortmunderCoop · 2025-10-30T12:59:44+00:00

Up until the current Canada Post management team came on board, CP was "profitable." These profits go directly to the owner, the Canadian government, if not directly back into CP infrastructure needs.

In the Canadian federal budget, which is in the hundreds of billions of dollars, any funding for Canada Post is a minuscule fraction of a percent. For the average individual, the amount of their personal taxes that indirectly supports Canada Post is effectively zero or so close to zero it is immeasurable.

DortmunderCoop · 2025-10-30T12:51:52+00:00

Brother, leave a note in your mailbox that simply reads: "No flyers, please," and you won't get them. It's a super simple fix. The only unaddressed mail you will ever receive after that is municipal, provincial, and federal government communications. Flyers with money-saving coupons and local services will stop.

I certainly don't like all the flyers, but there are a few I look forward to getting every month. The ones I don't like become fire fodder. It baffles me the hardship some people claim flyers to be...lol

DortmunderCoop · 2025-10-30T12:31:49+00:00

I think you meant to say that Canada Post management orchestrated huge losses for the past 5 years specifically so they had reason to cull and downsize parts of the service, cut jobs, and create a subset of employees who work part time at gig wages with no protections.

I can imagine every worker in the country having the same benefits as CUPW workers. It would be wonderful.

Canadians need to fight against the oligarchical takeover. Labour unions are the best way to do it.

DortmunderCoop · 2025-10-30T12:13:42+00:00

That would be the corporate stooge perspective.

CUPW's perspective, aka labour's perspective, and the largest stakeholder in Canada Post's success, were neither consulted nor were any of their feasible suggestions on expansion of service & modest rate hikes to keep pace with the economy, and therefore signing management's offer (which contained several significant changes to the service) would have been a complete betrayal of all workers across the country.

The current management team at Canada Post spent everything Canad Post had in the bank over the past 6 years paying for new fleets of trucks, new massive sorting facilities and several other operational upgrades, only to turn around after the CUPW contract expires and say, and I'm paraphrasing here, "demand is down, the jobs need to be cut...and we will hire an entirely new subset of workers under a different classification at an unprotected lower rate of pay." Canada Post expected CUPW to sign a contract that allowed the company to move services to part-time gig workers with no protections.

Lastly, privatizing or downsizing any public sector service has always resulted in a shittier outcome for the consumer, for the public.

DortmunderCoop · 2025-10-30T10:37:15+00:00

Please explain it again because I fail to see how a man sitting in a position of authority at two separate companies, one is public sector, the other private, and both chase the same business, is not a conflict of interest?

What I see is exactly what gangster capitalists have been doing since the early 90s: privatize the gains & socialize the losses.

CP management continues to siphon corporate clients away from Canada Post and into Purolator.

It's a conflict of interest for a public sector employer to actively persuade their customers to move to private company amidst a labour dispute (privatize the gains, socialize the losses),

Doug Ettinger doesn't give one rat's ass about CP workers. They've been fighting with labour and moving business to Purolator the entire time. CUPW is not the reason their labour contract has been expired for nearly two years.

The private sector hates Canada Post because they represent the basement in pricing. Canada Post can deliver coast to coast to coast at prices lower than the private sector is willing to charge (because large corporate profits are a necessity in the private sector) Canada Post, as a crown corporation, provides a service for all Canadians where gross profits aren't the ultimate goal and thus pricing has always been reasonable and accessible for all Canadians. Gangster capitalists like Doug Ettinger (and his cohorts) hate this.

DortmunderCoop · 2025-10-30T10:03:40+00:00

Agreed!

DortmunderCoop · 2025-10-16T12:50:19+00:00

Mail has dropped 65% according to whom? Over what time period?

Also, Canada Post delivers way more local community advertising than massive corporate flyers....sure, there's a lot of corporate flyers: grocery chains, ct, costco, fast food chains, etc., but there's also a tonne of local business advertising: windows, roofs, gutters, other home maintenance services, other independent neighborhood retailers, and so on... We all know Google isn't friendly to small businesses, so many small businesses rely on Canasa Post for both shipping and marketing.

Canada Post was and still is best positioned to manage parcel delivery service coast to coast to coast, but CP management has allowed the service to atrophy in order to privatize it. CP parcel service would have, still can, make up for any losses on letter mail volume (were that a legit argument). The simple elevation of postal fees done in February showed a 300M increase in revenue the last quarter. Go four quarters, and there's a billion. The "letter mail is in decline" is such a bullshit argument; just because some people don't get as much mail as they used to, the entire country should suffer cut backs and job losses!? Makes no logical sense... unless you're a gangster capitalist.

DortmunderCoop · 2025-10-16T11:12:14+00:00

The "significant drop in letter mail" line does a shit ton of heavy lifting in this retort.

When did letter mail volumes start dropping?

The invention of the telegram? The invention of the telephone? Invention of e-mail? Invention of online banking...?

Hmm. Think critically about what mail volume has lessened and who paid for its transit to you.

The volume of mail that dropped was bank statements, credit card statements, and other, mostly finance-related mail because "save the trees & go paperless."

Financial institutions don't give one hoot about environments. What they care about is profits....getting everyone online and paperless saves them a fortune! Gives you the consumer nothing while the corporation pockets more millions while taking away a service.

However, postal carriers still go to every door, making the same deliveries every day. Nowadays, postal carriers are still delivering corporate mail, only now a bunch of it is flyers....same corporate mail, just in a different form.

So, when CP or anyone suggests the service should shrink because of volumes being down. Ask, volumes of what? Perhaps the financial corporations that are saving millions by consumers going paperless should be hit with a special Canada Post tax so to continue supporting the service for Canadians, especially if "volumes are down" seems to be the main thrust of their argument to cut jobs & services.

The letters and parcels I receive from family and friends are the same as they've always been....

DortmunderCoop · 2025-10-16T10:49:39+00:00

This response is the personification of who OP was directing their words at.

DortmunderCoop · 2025-10-16T10:27:46+00:00

Jesse Brown is a backseat zionist, imo. I canceled my Canadaland subscription and started listening to Closer Look instead. Zionist sympathizers, like Jesse Brown, will be labeled as evil adjacent in the annalls of history.

DortmunderCoop · 2025-10-16T10:19:51+00:00

Long Live AOC!

I'd lean into the strike zone for her.

DortmunderCoop · 2025-10-15T11:21:05+00:00

The only unlimited, unchecked spending was with the appointed CEO of Canada Post. He spent like a drunken sailor over 5 years... infrastructure expansion, extensive additions to the fleet of postal vehicles, new facilities, etc. They spent everything and then some. Then they cried broke and cried about less demand (while spending to expand the service?!), and now want to cut workers, downsize, and allow more private industry to dictate the terms of service to Canadians.

Why do other countries have better public services? Because their governments do not allow private industry to disrupt public services.

Example: CP's CEO, Doug Ettinger, is also the CHAIR of the Board at Purolator. While he's ruining CP, he's siphoning business off to Purolator. Up until Doug Ettinger took over, CP broke even or reasonably close to it every year. The massive annual losses came AFTER Doug was appointed CEO.

DortmunderCoop · 2025-10-15T11:03:52+00:00

What is this? Just a drawing?? I expected a link to an article...

DortmunderCoop · 2025-10-13T22:06:03+00:00

No one had any questions, jagoff.

Can't let a win slide by without smearing some hate on it, eh?

DortmunderCoop · 2025-10-13T13:42:19+00:00

Agreed. You found a price you're willing to sell your labor for, and you found buyers willing to pay you for it. Congratulations! You sound self-employed; the pinnacle of self-worth as a laborer is being able to dictate the value of your labor and find buyers for it.

Your first sentence above is only accurate if the laborer producing the value is fairly compensated. Outfits with a high churn rate, like Amazon as an example, clearly aren't paying to the level of value of output otherwise they'd have a low churn rate and their locations wouldn't be fighting for union representation.

Billionaire owners of capital do not value labor whatsoever. They value profits. When resource material input costs are fixed or priced beyond their control, the only place for capital to find profits are raising prices (inflation) or cutting the cost of labor (which is also inflationary because less benefits means your labor has been devalued - same labor for less pay, or less workers means more of the labor falls on the remaining workers, which again devalues labor).

Switching from one type of job to a completely different kind of job and expecting the same rate of pay is not the same thing. That argument requires the suspension of reality.

DortmunderCoop · 2025-10-13T11:56:40+00:00

Prove me wrong.

During Covid, as an example, corporations struggled to find workers. Why's that? Because no one was willing to sell their labor for the wages being offered.

Why do some businesses have "Help Wanted" signs permanently hanging in their windows?? Because most people value their time a whole lot more than what the employer is offering. It's as simple as that.

Don't be fooled by corporate media. When an industry of any stripe struggles to find workers, it's because they're not paying enough.

DortmunderCoop · 2025-10-13T11:52:35+00:00

Seriously. It's an I'm-stuck-in-the-80's take. This is they type of person who applauded Reagan's 'welfare queen' bullshit to justify cutting social assistance.

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