Service levels improving as Canada Post enters next phase in safely serving the needs of Canadians
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With COVID-related restrictions easing across the country, businesses are reopening and fewer Canadians are at home during the day. As a result, we are entering a new phase in our efforts to ensure the safety of our people and our customers while providing an essential service. These efforts will involve carefully phasing out some of the changes we made, while modifying or keeping other changes.
Read more2020 Canada Post E-commerce Innovation Awards cancelled
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As a result of COVID-19, the 2020 Canada Post E-commerce Innovation Awards are cancelled.
Read moreParcel delays to continue as Canada Post delivers at record levels
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Canadians should anticipate parcel delays for the foreseeable future, even as Canada Post delivers at record levels. As Canadians continue to ramp up and diversify their online shopping, Canada Post is responding to unprecedented parcel volumes while maintaining important physical distancing measures in all our facilities. Processing record parcel volumes in plants that were never designed to keep people two metres apart takes more time.
Read moreCanada Post segment reports $66-million loss before tax in first quarter
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OTTAWA – Canada Post recorded a loss before tax of $66 million in the first quarter of 2020, as continued growth in Parcels revenue and volumes was not enough to offset increased costs. Ongoing declines in Transaction Mail and Direct Marketing also contributed to the loss.
Read moreCanada Post segment posts $153 million loss for 2019
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Canada Post is reporting a loss before tax of $153 million for 2019. While it remains the country’s leader in e-commerce delivery, its Parcels business grew at a slower pace in 2019 as the competition in e-commerce delivery intensified.
Read moreCanada Post celebrates a century of radio broadcasting in Canada
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OTTAWA - Today, Canada Post issued a pair of stamps to mark the 100th anniversary of the first scheduled radio broadcast in Canada, an event that quickly changed the way Canadians experienced news and entertainment – at home and away.
Read moreCanada Post celebrates centennial of Group of Seven's first exhibition
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OTTAWA – One hundred years ago tomorrow, Canadian art enthusiasts got their first look at paintings from what would become Canada’s best-known school of art — the Group of Seven. Canada Post is celebrating this significant anniversary with a stamp issue featuring works by the Group’s seven founding members.
Read moreCanada Post honours the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day
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OTTAWA – Canada Post unveiled two stamps honouring every Canadian who served overseas and on the home front to mark the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (May 8, 1945), when Nazi Germany surrendered to Allied forces, ending the Second World War in Europe.
Read moreEid Mubarak! New stamp heralds coming of two Islamic festivals
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Today, Canada Post issued a new commemorative stamp to mark Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, the two most important festivals in the Islamic calendar. The events, which begin this year on May 23 and July 30, respectively, are celebrated by more than one million Muslims in Canada.
Read moreChristmas-level parcel volumes resulting in delays as Canada Post continues to deliver
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OTTAWA – With many Canadians isolating at home and shopping more online, Canada Post is now processing and delivering parcels at levels only experienced during the busiest weeks of the Christmas season. We are working hard to respond in a responsible manner, putting the safety of our people, and the communities we serve, first.
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