Canada Post Reviews

Pros

The people are great to work with. Team members are in sync when it comes to understanding deliverables

Cons

Sometimes difficult to work with the extended team simply due to location

Advice to Senior Management

Maintain and decemmenate the company goals

Pros

Good collaboration depending on the department and team leaders
Fairly good benefits
Large organization - fairly stable

Cons

Senior management decision making reactive
Very political versus rewarded for job performance
Large organization / can be challenging
A Top 100 employer?

Advice to Senior Management

If you do find a competent General Manager for Talent Segmentation / Development; heed his/her feedback if you really want to be progressive and actually fairly represent your standing as a Top 100 employer

Pros

Decent pay , flexible work schedule respect from the most of the population. Good uniform plan ( enough points - long delivery ). Ok junior managment.

Cons

No extended health benefits or pension plan for relief and temporary workers in certain positions takes up to 2-3 years or maybe more to get regular full or part time and benefits.

Pros

Decent pay, decent benefits, pension (unless you're a new hire, then none of the above) start at 3 weeks holidays.

Cons

Oh where to begin! From the CEO of this company to the supervisors in the depots.....really nasty and mean people that treat workers like crap. Despite the fact that our hard work earns this company record profits every year ($281 million last year) they still slash our wages, benefits and pensions. They micromanage every concievable detail even though though they have never done the job before themselves. We cannot take time off, even using banked overtime and asking a year in advance!! Supervisors literally spy on the employees to see if they're delivering their flyers or are wearing their seatbelts........such wasted money.

Advice to Senior Management

Back off and let us do our jobs. I used to like my job! I'm the one on the front line that knows all my customers names and they like me because I do a good job! Trying telling us now and then that we did something right. Quit harassing us when we're sick. Quit following us on our routes to see if we delivered flyers! AAAGGGGHHH!

Pros

Very good pay and benefits
No expectation to work unpaid OT
Most employees are dedicated and hardworking
Communication with management is quite good

Cons

Employees are very high-maintenance and childish at times
Sense of entitlement among some workers is exceptionally frustrating
Many union reps are difficult to communicate effectively with
Unrealistic expectations during peak season

Pros

good pay and benefits and job security

Cons

the only thing I can think of is high union dues.

Advice to Senior Management

advice to senior management-leave us alone to do our job don't be at our backs all the time.

Pros

opportunity for promotion across job function within the company
outstanding defined benefit with their pension plan
secure company that has remained profitable every year

Cons

work environment has tendencies to be a little too political at times
the shareholder sometimes restricts CPC opportunities to drive revenues
core business is declining

Pros

Great benefits, good working environment

Cons

Slow, bureaucratic, visonless, held back by union

Pros

Pension, freedom, vacation, benefit package

Cons

bargaining unit issues, inflexibility, aging tiechnology, financial losses

Advice to Senior Management

Improve collective agreements

Pros

The hourly wage is good.

Cons

There seems to be no hope of becoming a permanent employee after 5 years as a casual worker. They seem to want to keep workers in a casual status so they don't owe us any benefits or hours. I still get called day to day for work - there seems to be no ability to schedule temp workers ahead of time even though it is pretty obvious where there are staffing shortages. For instance, in the areas where full time workers are working overtime most days, they need to create another position and hire someone. Very poorly managed workloads. Supervisors either disappear when needed or micromanage work that doesn't need their input. Suggestions for improvements in the system have been laughed at. There is a lot of shifting of the work to the graveyard shift, which makes people sick and tired and has made most inside plant workers are super grumpy.

Advice to Senior Management

People before profits! Overtime should be occasional, if there is a need to consistently force overtime on permanent employees (which there is and has been for years), then you need to hire more workers! In my plant some PO5's have been working 10-12 hour days for at least a year. That's ridiculous!