Canada Post Reviews in Vancouver, BC Area

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

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

We deliver to everyone and everywhere and we accept mail for everywhere and everyone. Mail is universal. We were here before the internet and we will survive with the internet.:-) The receipt, transfer and delivery of mail requires trust and competence. Serving the public good is the reason for the post office.

Cons

Constant restructuring of routes, complicated bidding processes for yearly shift bids, yearly bargaining for holiday schedules, triannual contract negotiations and petty politics.

Advice to Senior Management

Simplify the products so that our customers will be able to understand the service. Provide better training and orientation to new employees.

Pros

Exercise, being outside, independently completing tasks and connecting with neighborhoods and communities.

Cons

Extreme weather shifts. What's consistent with unions, they work with and against. It's not an mind expanding job, nor is it expected to be.

Advice to Senior Management

Engage all staff in contributing to an empowering work space or environment. Include all levels in sourcing the key elements to providing efficient proud service to the public.

Pros

There are none now, many employee's are caught guarding their pensions. A popular game is how many weeks left to go before you can retire.

Cons

Management that cannot think for itself, performance is to be achieved at any cost, yet it rarely is. Money and the budget drive everything, not even union contracts are to be honored if at all possible. The employees are told what to do how to think with propaganda schemes. management routinely violate contracts with if you don't like it grieve it, which can take up to four years to go through the system and then admit guilt before moneitary penalties are levied against them. Bad managers are promoted rather than fired.

Advice to Senior Management

Bring back promotion from within the ranks, remove bad managers, get some real ideas that work on the delivery floor.

Pros

The pay is okay and being a letter-carrier you are usually done work reasonably early. As a letter-carrier you
work M-F and don't work evenings and weekends or stats. If you chose to work inside, you can work other
shifts including graveyards if that suits you. The benefits package is okay but is getting worse and worse
each contract negotiation. It's nice to work outside when the weather is nice, and it's also nice not having
someone supervise your every move. Good exercise. Pension.

Cons

The company is really not friendly towards its employees and is making the job more and more difficult for
us, increasing workloads without paying heed to an increased number of injuries. They also harass you
everytime you use a sick day, despite having 10 days in our contract. There are also other issues
such as dog bites, bad weather and lots of slipping and falling injuries.

Advice to Senior Management

That we are human beings, not donkeys. The "clean floor policy" make look good on the books, but is
ridiculous. Also, people get sick, that's a fact, and we don't need to be harassed. Happy employees are
healthy employees.