Should Canada Post be privatized? / : Faut-il privatiser Postes Canada?

Hence, if Canada Post does not close down or liquidate from which Canada Post has benefitted since 2011.10 The its pension fund, it may be possible to negotiate a resolution to Government of Canada issued Canada Post a letter of credit the solvency issues, which are far from being insurmountable, allowing the latter to make these payments pending a return especially if the rates of return for the [...] This postal franchises in stores.17 would result in putting the entire postal sector in the hands A Conference Board of Canada report states that doing of the private sector. [...] As mentioned in the intro- Obviously, if the postal sector were to be completely priva- duction, Canada Post has for many years paid annually large tized, Canada Post would no longer have any ties to the federal sums of money to the government of Canada. [...] The ernment announced the closure of a series of post offices success of the recent privatization of the network of post offices deemed insolvent, most of them located in rural areas.35 in England (which followed the privatization of mail delivery) According to some studies, the number of post offices shrank depends on “public subsidy”.42 In Germany, Poland, Belgium by 40% in Austria and Germany.3 [...] It is still difficult to estimate the cost of such measures fewer people to sort the mail.51 This can lead to delivery (since Canada Post has managed to be rather profitable during delays or errors.52 the last decade), but we can safely conclude that the potential privatization of Canada Post would mean either the beginning Summary of advantages and disadvantages of federal subsidy payments to pos