Canada Post
| Canada Post Corporation
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1867 |
| Seat |
 Ottawa , Canada
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| Number of employees | 72,000 |
| sales | 7,500 million CAD (2007) |
| Branch | Postal company |
| Website | www.canadapost.ca |
The Canada Post Corporation , usually only English Canada Post or French Postes Canada , is the Canadian postal company . The company was founded in 1867 and has approximately 72,000 employees, making it one of Canada's largest employers.
Business activity
Canada Post delivers an average of 40 million items to 14 million addresses every day. There are 6,600 post offices in Canada ; daily mail is delivered by 15,000 postmen on over 20,000 delivery routes. On December 11, 2013 it was announced that home deliveries would generally be discontinued within the next 5 years in favor of the delivery to post office boxes, which is already common in rural areas. There are 585 domestic flights per day on behalf of Canada Post.
In 2007, the company generated a turnover of 7.5 billion dollars at a delivery of 11.8 billion items, resulting in a net gain resulted of 56 million dollars.
Name and business structure
The company's official name is Canada Post Corporation . However, she only calls herself Canada Post or French Postes Canada in her publications , these two names can also be found in the Canada Post logo.
Canada Post was founded in 1867 by the Canadian government as the Post Office Department . The use of Canada Post or Postes Canada was introduced in the 1960s, but the official name remained the Post Office Department . On October 16, 1981, the Canada Post Corporation Act finally renamed the company to its current name:
"There is hereby established a corporation to be called the Canada Post Corporation."
"A public company named Canada Post Corporation is hereby formed."
Section 61 of this law states that within Canada all matters relating to the Post Office , Canada Mail , Canada Post and Canada Post Corporation are related to or authorized by the Company.
Canada Post operates as a group of companies called The Canada Post Group . It is divided into three business areas: Transaction Mail , Parcels and Direct Marketing . Transaction Mail is responsible for processing the business, i.e. the delivery of the items, logistics , invoicing and press releases . The Department Parcels handles the delivery of larger items and postal parcels from which direct marketing , the direct marketing .
Canada Post owns 91 percent of Purolator , Canada's largest courier company . The CGI Group, an international information technology company founded in Canada , and Canada Post founded the IT company Innovapost as a joint venture in 2002 , which today employs around 750 people and develops logistics software. The majority of the shares in Innovapost are held by Canada Post (51%), the remaining 49% are held by the CGI Group.
history
The first traces of paid mail delivery in Canada go back to 1693. The Portuguese Pedro da Silva , who had come to Canada from Portugal sometime before 1673 , later married and had 14 children, delivered a package in July 1693 for a payment of 20 sou or a bunch of letters from Montreal to Quebec . On December 23, 1705 da Silva received a letter from Jacques Raudot in which this da Silva as the first courier ( first courier honored). In addition, he was granted permission to deliver further items to private individuals. In 2003 Canada Post published a 48-cent stamp in his honor, which shows a section of this letter and da Silva's signature against a drawing of Quebec.
The first official mail delivery system for private citizens was developed under Benjamin Franklin in 1763, and Hugh Finlay Franklin presented the first postage stamp in 1764 . Initially, there were only routes between Montreal and Quebec and Montreal and New York. When mail delivery to New York was interrupted because of the American Revolutionary War, routes within Canada continued to develop. From 1775 there was an official postal system offered by the British government.
In the course of the 19th century, more complicated price systems for mail delivery developed, for the first time depending on distance and destination. On May 25, 1849, postage stamps were officially introduced for franking . Sir Sandford Fleming designed the first postage stamp, probably a 3 cent stamp that featured a beaver .
Shortly after independence in Canada by the Constitution Act, 1867 was Canada Post as Post Office Department as a federal institution by the Canadian Postmaster General , the Chairman of the Postal Ministry , founded and performed with the law for the regulation of postal ( Act for the regulation of the Postal Service ) officially in force on April 1, 1868. It was similar to the British system that Rowland Hill had just reformed. Canada Post joined the Universal Postal Union in 1878 four years after it was founded.
On July 24, 1918, there was the first airmail delivery , in which shipments from Montreal to Toronto are transported by air. Airmail was then offered regularly from 1928.
In the 1970s there were several large strikes by the postmen, which in some cases led to long delays in mail delivery. In 1981 Canada Post made a $ 600 million loss, primarily due to strong competition from courier companies. This led to a total of two years of debates in the Canadian parliament with the decision to make the Canadian postal company more autonomous.
On October 16, 1981, the Canada Post Corporation Act was enacted, which made Canada Post a state-owned company officially known as Canada Post Corporation . In addition, this law finally established that every Canadian has the right to receive mail. Before that, there was no regular mail delivery in many rural regions.
In 2003 Canada Post acquired 91 percent of Purolator.
addressing
Any shipment to be sent with Canada Post must have the destination address noted on the front of the envelope . A postage stamp or equivalent postage stamp must also be affixed to the top right of the envelope . Optionally, a return address can be noted on the top left of the envelope or on the back of the envelope.
The postal address consists of various components that are structured in several lines. First, the recipient or a recipient group is specified, this is usually done in one or two lines. This is followed by the address, consisting of house number and street, or the recipient's PO box. The destination then follows; For shipments within Canada, this is given in the form of city, abbreviation for the province, and zip code . For international shipments, the country of destination must finally be specified in English or French.
An example address could be:
G. Raymond
Company for Examples
1234 Main Street
Dollard-Des-Ormeaux, QC, H9G 1W7
engagement
Canada Post supports literacy through financial grants. The company also sponsors the Canadian freestyle skiing team and the United Way .
Canada Post maintains the world's busiest Christmas post office and received an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for it . Letters to Santa Claus can be addressed to a specially created post code ( H0H 0H0 ) ; Every year around a million letters arrive, to which employees and volunteers answer almost all of them in 26 languages - including Braille .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annual Year Report 2007. (No longer available online.) Canada Post, archived from the original on February 2, 2009 ; Retrieved on March 14, 2009 (English): "72,000 employees the Canada Post Group is one of the largest employers in Canada." Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Annual Year Report 2007. (No longer available online.) Canada Post Corporation, archived from the original on February 2, 2009 ; accessed on March 14, 2009 (English): "Consolidated revenue from operations reached $ 7,500 million, an increase of $ 210 million, or 2.5% from the comparative period." Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Annual Year Report 2007 - About Us. (No longer available online.) Canada Post, archived from the original on April 9, 2009 ; accessed on March 15, 2009 (English): "Every business day, Canada Post delivers some 40 million pieces of mail to approximately 14 million residential and business addresses" Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Canada Post's sales pitch tailored to justify cuts. Radio Canada International, accessed December 12, 2013 .
- ↑ a b c Annual Year Report 2007 - About Us. (No longer available online.) Canada Post, archived from the original on April 9, 2009 ; Retrieved March 15, 2008 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Annual Year Report 2007 - Overview. (No longer available online.) Canada Post, archived from the original on February 2, 2009 ; accessed on March 15, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ A b Canada Post Corporation Act. Department of Justice Canada, accessed August 25, 2012 .
- ↑ Frequently Asked Questions. Purolator Courier, accessed March 15, 2009 : “Ownership: Canada Post Corporation (91%), Barry Lapointe Holdings Ltd. (7%) Other (2%) "
- ^ Annual Report 2007 - Canada Post Group of Companies. (No longer available online.) Canada Post, archived from the original on February 5, 2009 ; accessed on March 15, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Pedro da Silva. (No longer available online.) Canada Post, archived from the original on June 29, 2009 ; Retrieved March 15, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
