Yet whenever Canada Post comes in for one of its periodic public reviews, the focus is always the same: not, how can we improve mail service for Canadians, but how can we make life easier for Canada Post? Never having known any alternative to Canada Post — unable even to imagine an alternative — we are too prone to accept this logic. If Canada Post finds it too hard or tiresome or costly to deliver the mail, the only sensible response is to let someone else do it. By law (Section 14 of the Canada Post Corporation Act) Canada Post possesses the “exclusive privilege” to carry letter mail. If people are willing to pay someone else to deliver the mail that Canada Post won’t, why should they be prevented from doing so?

Source: National Post September 14, 2016 23:15 UTC