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  • miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Any solutions as to how NOT to lose $1,000,000 per day?
    Didn’t think so. Let’s keep delvering junk mail door-to-door!

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      3 days ago

      How much money is the military losing per day? As far as I can tell they aren’t bringing in any income at all!

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          2 days ago

          I don’t think government services need to turn a profit to exist. Including the military.

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            The military isn’t a public service. It’s the fundamental exercise of the government’s sovereignty over the country.

            Canada Post doesn’t need to turn a profit either. But it shouldn’t be losing billions of dollars to deliver junk mail door to door 5 days a week when it could deliver weekly to community mailboxes (supplemented by home delivery for those in need) and provide the same vital service at a fraction of the cost.

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              Defence is absolutely a service the government is providing the country. Define it however you will, that is the nature of the thing.

              As for the rest, everyone keeps banging on about junk mail but I seem to get other things in the mail regularly as well.

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      The junk mail is one of the profits for Canada post, I personally put a sticky in my mailbox saying no junk mail. I have done a lot to avoid ads, it has not been inexpensive I have paid a lot of money to set up a system where I get very few peaces of junk mail, spam, or auto phone calls. Even though if you asked me I would have to tell you I have paid somewhere in the high hundreds (maybe $1000+) over the past ten or so years and I continue to pay lots of money (less now that I have started the buy Canadian thing) to keep me away from all the junk mail and spam the results have been priceless, Canada Post could help people with this.

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      3 days ago

      Charge $5/month for each address to not deliver any junk mail.