Weather has been squirrelly of late. Nothing major, just unsettled, winds drop the comfort zone but has not stopped many going off.
Down at the new NG building the roof trusses are going up slowly. Be interesting to see what it looks like once it is covered in, can’t get a vision of it as yet.
We had occasion to send a small light gift out to North West River Labrador this week. Said parcel had dimensions of 19cm x18.5cm x 8cm and weighed 0.245 Kg.
The cheapest rate was $13.99 with tax.
If I wanted to send it on to say Guelph Ontario the same parcel would have cost $16.53 cheapest rate
If I happened to send the parcel from Goose Bay to Guelph Ontario it would have cost $10.20 cheapest rate
Now it is about 376 kilometers from Nain to Goose Bay as the crow fly’s, then another 40 kilometers by road.
By contrast it is about 2,000 kilometers from Nain to Guelph as the crow fly’s.
Seeing as Canada Post uses trucks and not crows to move ordinary mail in and out of Labrador then that would be 2,429 kilometers. Plus the parcel would most likely go through a number of sorting faculties on its way from Labrador to Ontario.
So Canada Posts claim that we are heavily subsidized up here does not hold water IMO.
If we are subsidized than what do the rates say about the rest of Canada? Canada Post after all is loosing money, but I am sure you can’t blame it on the Labrador operations.
Nunatsiavut Government will be holding an information session tonight in the NG board room, 7 pm.
Could be a good exercise in pulling hens teeth, or not.
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Canada Post has to be losing money with the high use of email, fax, cell phones etc.
They sure are loosing money to all you mentioned Shamm, and more besides. But I do not think they are loosing on the runs to the north, you should see the volumes of mail freight and mail that comes in, yet every time some one puts in a complaint you get the same old same old spiel from there spokespeople, you are heavily subsidized, no one asked you to live in a remote place, stuff like that, bit hard to take really.
a while back i sent out some DVD slide shows and they arrived in california and georgia a day before the one i sent to happy valley,goosebay.
That is not surprising TM, unless it is first class mail [at prohibited price, though not so much to Goose Bay as here] the mail is trucked from your part of the world, maybe it even goes to St. John’s first but don’t quote me on that, to the Maritimes, into Quebec, up the highway into Labrador through Lab West to Goose Bay. It also has to go through ‘sorting facilities’ on the way.
mail being trucked from Goose Bay to Guelph and flown from Nain to Goose Bay, then trucked to Guelph is the reason for the price difference.
Not surprising. The last package I sent to Cartwright was about that size but 5.2KG if I recall, and it was $54 USD to send it from Georgia regular post. I forget, it took nearly three weeks to get there.
Thank you for that in depth cost analyses on mail and freight movements into and out of Labrador Prof Wejitu, how silly of me to worry then, and how impertinent I am in even discussing it.
Oh I am so sorry student Brain for speaking over your head: I should have said, Truck - Cheap; Plane - expensive.
How about some facts and figures to back up you critique Wejitu, criticizing for the sake of criticizing just does not cut it.
I find you come across as a pompous pounce of preponderant proportions hiding behind anonymity, very boring actually.
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