The Canada Post Public Pity Party - This is uneffin believable!
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Summary
It's Christmas Eve and Canada's mail delivery system is shut down. Here's what's going on, and why you're not going to want to miss it. It's a story written by Global News, and it's absolutely ridiculous.
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Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel. Don't go away. Watch what I'm talking about today.
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Listen to me, because you're not going to believe the story I've got for you today.
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Down in my basement with my big blue mug of coffee this morning, Wednesday, December 11th,
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two weeks until Christmas. So I got up this morning thinking, what am I going to chat about?
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There was one thing on my mind, but I might leave it until later today, because I came across this
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story. And first off, it's stunning how stupid it is. And I can't believe it was actually written
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by a news organization here in Canada, Global News. I'll get to it in just a moment. But I want to just
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give you some background on this. Now, no matter where you are in the world, again, stick with the
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story with me, because you're not going to believe it. We have a postal strike going on here in Canada,
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and it's going on a whole month now. I think it's 26, 27 days as of Wednesday, December the 11th.
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And most people haven't been affected by it at all. And I've said here before, all I get in the
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mail is junk mail. I occasionally get something that's actual mail, but most of the time it's
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junk mail. So that's what our postal workers are doing here in Canada, delivering junk mail for the
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most part. Now, there are some small businesses that are suffering during the postal strike.
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I have sympathy for them, but the postal strike just goes to show you that there should be another
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way to make those deliveries for small businesses that may be the fact that Canada Post is past its due date.
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So here's just an article in the National Post from just a couple of days ago. Here's a headline.
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Empty mailbox. What will be lost if Canada Post goes out of business? The average household is down to
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two pieces of mail a week. In an age of emails and texts, the end of the letter is already here.
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So basically, Canada Post is not getting any sympathy from people in the public right now.
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So they're resorting to the stupidest thing you can imagine. Now, what do they want? Let me just
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tell you what they want at this point. Of course, they want more money. So this is probably the main
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sticking point right now. And if you look at this graphic on the screen, Cup W, the Canadian Union of
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Postal Workers, are looking for a 22% raise hike over four years. But right now, they're being offered
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11 and a half. So that's a pretty big gap in the difference, you know, in how much they want to get
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paid. But they're also looking for health and safety improvements for postal workers. Now, let me read
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you the creed or the motto of the United States Postal Worker. And if you're older than maybe 20 years of
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age, you may have heard this in your life. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these
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couriers from the swift completion of their appointed round. So basically, the mail will be
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delivered regardless of the weather or any of the situations. The mail will get there. Now, here is
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an actual headline written by Katie Dangerfield at Global News. And this was posted yesterday afternoon
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on December 10th. A death trap. Striking Canada Post workers explained the job's toll on them. So now,
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delivering mail in Canada is a death trap. And I'll tell you, I'm going to, I'll put the link to this story
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in the description below. This is a pity party for postal workers in Canada. Now, I'm not going to shame
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anybody who is actually quoted in this story. But what they talk about is ridiculous. You're going to get an idea
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of it right here. So how is it a death trap? So let's move along to the next point here. What is making
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delivering mail in Canada a death trap? Here we go. As Canada Post workers remain on the picket line,
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a key point of contention in their demands is their job's growing physical and mental toll.
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And they say that's exacerbated by climate change. Climate change. From delivering parcels through
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scorching heat waves to battling blizzards, Canadian postal workers increasingly face extreme
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weather conditions that strain their bodies and minds. In recent years, climate change has shown a bit
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of a trend, said Brom Enslin, local president at Cup W, Saskatoon, local 824. I don't have any issues
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with shaming Brom Enslin for making a ridiculous point like this to try to get public sympathy
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for postal workers in Canada. There was an ice storm and we had a rash of injuries, Enslin added,
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referring to the storm last year in Saskatoon. Members that broke their hip just by going out there,
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and they've broken their hip apparently because of climate change. They're blaming climate change
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for having injuries on the job. Now, let me just describe to you how my mail gets delivered here
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and how my mail has been delivered for, I don't know how long it's been. Years ago, door-to-door
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delivery by postal workers basically disappeared across the whole country. And there was a big uproar
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about this. You know, seniors wouldn't be able to walk down to the corner to get their mail out of these
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mailboxes they put up. And I got to walk about 300 steps to get to this mailbox and there's like
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30 mailboxes there. I have a key and I have to go get my mail. I haven't had a person actually deliver
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mail to the door at my house in decades now in Canada. And I'm not sure how many people are having
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that happen. What happens is there's a man or a woman in a little Canada Post truck that they're given
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and they drive up to the box, step over the curb and put the mail in the mailbox.
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So how are these people breaking their hips? I'm assuming that in some places they still hand
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deliver mail to the door, but that's pretty rare in Canada. I lived in Ontario at a number of places,
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never had the mail delivered to my door. I lived in Strathmore in Alberta, had to pick up my mail at
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one of those little boxes I told you about. And since I've lived at three places in Calgary, I've never
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had home delivery. There's a little truck with a person that delivers it and they step eight feet,
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probably from the curb to that box to put all that mail in. And again, most of it's junk mail. So
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how are these people hurting themselves? Now what this has become now is a pity party for the poor
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postal workers to get public sympathy because climate change is causing them to break their hips.
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I can't believe that Global News actually wrote this story. This is how far the media has fallen in
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Canada. The Global News is absolutely nutso cuckoo over climate change and global warming. They're
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crazy about this stuff. There isn't a story they won't write about climate change, but this is nuts.
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Let me just read a little bit about one of the people. I don't think his whole name's in here. I'll
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block it out if it is. But here's just, here's another little, a couple of paragraphs. Being a letter
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carrier in British Columbia often means navigating steep hills and hazardous driveways, especially in areas
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like Penticton, where many homeowners have stamped concrete, Schatz explained. These services can
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become dangerously slick in icy or damp conditions, he said, making them even more treacherous, turning
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frosty mornings into potential safety hazards. When it's frosty morning out there, they are truly a
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death trap, Schatz says. A death trap. Well, here's what you do if you're a Canada postal worker,
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or if you're the head of Cup W, what you do is you go out and buy your people these. I think I was
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given these. You put these on your boots. Carbide tips, they work great in the ice. And on icy days,
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you have them put this on their boots. Don't blame injuries on climate change. But this is the way
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government works, right? You heard the idea, you heard the thing about $500 hammers. It's one of
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those stories you hear about the United States military and the United States government. Well,
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this is a case where they're trying to get pity from the public over climate change because they can't
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get sympathy from the public because nobody cares about the postal strike that's been going on for
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almost a month. Go out and get these. They hardly cost a cent. And you maybe can save your people
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who are delivering your mail from the death trap that is climate change when they're out there on
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the streets in all those awful, terrible weather conditions. Thanks for watching.