Canada Post – “A place for the useless to be placed away from the better company's”

I read your comments with great interest the situation at Australia Post is almost identical, I took early retirement in 08 after nearly thirty years at AP I can honestly say I really enjoyed my job, great work colleagues, friendly environment, working conditions are generally excellent.
All this changed about five years ago around 2003-04 management adopted a very aggressive stance towards staff, we were asked to fill in surveys about job satisfaction and our view of the direction AP was going, I don't have problem with surveys but the underlying motives were very sinister, to get rid of long term employees like myself and many others.
Obviously the end game for AP is to lower costs by having the majority of employees on contract or casual or part time thereby avoiding holiday pay, sick leave etc.
We got an idea something big was in the planning stage several years ago, a friend who plays golf met some people at a course close to the mail centre, turns out they were from head office in Melbourne they were a planning group bragging about what they had in store for the organization, how they were going to shake up the place it's a pity now the integrity of the mail is under suspicion because of cost cutting.
I'm sure some people reading this will see me as a disgruntled former employee, let me assure you this is not the case I'm still in contact with former colleagues still at AP who tell me it is even worse now with more persecution especially at the lower levels.