Understanding the offer: Summary mailing sent to your home
July 15, 2025, 01:22 pm
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On May 28, 2025, we presented our best and final offers to CUPW for the Urban and RSMC bargaining units. You will have the opportunity to vote on our final offer that applies to your bargaining unit, with voting run independently by the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB).
If accepted by a majority of the voters, our final offer will become your new collective agreement, ending this round of negotiations with CUPW. This vote is about the offer, nothing else. The choice is yours.
Read the mailing sent to employees’ homes
We’ve mailed a summary of our offer to the homes of all CUPW-represented employees. Please watch for it in your mailbox, or you can read a PDF version (Urban unit).
Resolution and stability
This vote gives employees the chance to decide if these final offers should become their new collective agreements, bringing resolution and stability after 19 months of negotiations. If accepted, the new four-year collective agreements would be in effect for CUPW-Urban and CUPW-RSMC until January 31, 2028.
Learn more about the final offers
- Read a PDF version (Urban unit) of the mailing sent to the homes of CUPW-represented employees
- Visit canadapost.ca/offers:
- Read about what the offer means for you.
- Review fact sheets and watch videos about the final offer.
- Find details about the vote being run independently by the CIRB.
- Stay tuned for further updates. On the Negotiations Hub, sign up for email updates directly to your inbox.
CUPW Urban
I am a 34year employee. been in 5 job actions. If you vote Yes you are giving the employer a crutch to not negotiate in the future and use the government to help them.
How about vote NO, then the Government will need to decide if they want a postal service, like every other country has a postal service, or not. Then, treat it like it is, it’s a service not a business. Then, given the current landscape, less volume of mail, make some good decisions and think of maybe it’s now time to diversify Canada Post, like it should have been started 20 years ago, but now is better than later, and perhaps we could engage in activities that’ll generate more revenue for this service to Canadians, like postal banking for example, like some other countries are already doing, etc.
I’ve worked for other corporations and it’s the same everywhere you go. Those actually doing the legwork getting screwed by the management team. The real problems are created by those who are in charge of fixing the problem. It’s never enough, bonuses aren’t supposed to be existent in a corporation which runs a deficit. No justification where that money comes from. A cancer throughout the corp. We are fighting for the crumbs left over, a mockery really. Union might be good for protection of employee rights but it covers all the same, the good pay the price for the lazy, not so much a good thing. Either way, with only a shift per 2-3 weeks (if I’m lucky), the vote will be what it will be I guess.
Canada Post is a service not a business, CP delivers a letter to Tuktoyuktuk for the same cost as a letter to your next door neighbour, no courier company would deliver anywhere in this huge, vast country for the same amount, so why are we saying profit is a concern, it’s either a service or a business, not both, is the military supposed to make a profit, the education system, … etc.?
What if: CUPW gets a “no vote”, and the government refuses to infuse anymore $ into the crown corporation? Canada Post can file for bankruptcy. If they did, the courts could nullify any / all collective agreements in a restructuring plan. Something to think about….
So many out-of-touch supervisors on here panicking about losing their cushy 5-hour (or less) shifts where they do nothing. Carriers don’t need CUPW to tell them, it’s an obvious NO.
So many out of touch lettercarriers on here also.Guess youre going to have to eventually work a full 8 hours like the rest of us! Oh no!
Guess you have no clue what you’re talking about. The supervisors are the only ones working a full 8 plus more. No OT given. Whilst CUPW work a 3 hr shift and complain of volumes.
Why the heck am I learning about a voting date from the media and not from the CPC ? Playing it out in the media seems a little childish to me
One more reason to vote NO
Absolutely No !!!!
It’s not a CPC thing it’s a third party
Why am I learning about a voting date from the media and not from the CPC ? Playing it out in the media seems a friends with management to me
One more reason to vote NO
Absolutely No !!!!
Because you’re not paying attention? CPC has made this stuff transparent, look for it. At the same time the union has filled the media and its own website with tons of misinformation. Take the time to go to CPC website and view the what they offer.
My wife works for federal government and her project is working on job cuts!! SO YES job cuts are coming so vote yes.
lol love the sky is falling comments
Federal job cuts have been in the news, but people here seem to think we’re immune because we provide a service to Canadians; meanwhile CRA employees and other Federal service employees are losing their jobs. The longer this drags on, the deeper the cuts.
Vote NO ! Great for your wife
Good try Ryan.
Thank goodness CPC is sending another mailed pamphlet to my home! Class act operation!
Before you vote…please educate yourself. Read the full offer, not just the hilites. After reading and understanding the full offer…make your choice. Dont read into the offer things that are not printed. Regardless of vote result, there will be changes. Some will be ok with the changes, some will not. SSD, pt weekends, and zero OT are coming. Done deals. Dont let others tell you that a no vote will stop the above. Also dont let others tell you that a yes vote will allow you to work status quo. Once again, big changes are gonna happen regardless of vote results. Vote the way that you want. Dont get snagged by the scare tactics and fear mongering that are being put out by both CUPW and CPC. Over 18mths of “non-negotiations”, loss of $5K during job action, and customer uncertainty, have gone on long enuff. It’s your vote. One thing to keep in mind as well, is that CUPW no longer wants arbitration. Read into that what you like.
I have definetly worked here long enough to know that we will be locked out if no vote…we have never had a commissioners report and a drastic fed mandate change coming in the fall…my opinion vote yes and at least keep in there for awhile…as no vote wont accomplish anything.
Won’t be a lockout, with the review coming up they won’t want to create any waves
You have not worked here very long at all, definitely
It’s time to thin the herd on both sides, if you’re going to cut union jobs, then management jobs must go as well!!!!
Who’s cutting union jobs? Your inability to agree to a contract isn’t helping the future, but nobody is cutting if you take the deal.
How many times do we have to tell you to read CP’s proposal for 2028?!?!? We say yes this time, jobs are gone next time. It’ll be a done deal!
Jobs could be in jeopardy before 2028 if you keep this up. They are not planning on cutting in 2028 either by the way, although I don’t expect you to do any research
https://infopost.ca/wp-c/u/2025/02/iic_cpc_feb14-e.pdf
Not sure how you can’t read pages 48 and 49 and be so confident in your assertion. They’re telling you EXACTLY what they want to do. A yes vote opens the door for them to do it without any pushback. THAT’S research!
You’re not making any sense boss, you keep saying no more volume but you’ll still keep all the employees and management? You know and I know cuts are coming soon! And that’s has nothing to do with any vote results.
Why are you on here telling us what to do?
Go back to your supervisor job. Or are you scared it could be gone?
They have already started cutting jobs; more than 50 managers cut early in the year, HR employees have lost their jobs, training positions cut, and numerous support positions gone.
Hoping others lose their jobs…classy comment.
50 managers cut…that’s a good start
Job cuts with high severance bonuses thanks to gov bailout.
Yes real classy.Hoping mgmt loses their jobs…Mgmt goes so are the CUPW employees.The groupies think their jobs are safe? Uh huh.Again, take a sip.
There will be a postal mandate this fall which is 2 years late. Changes will happen whether a Yes or No vote wins, that’s just the reality.
If a Yes vote wins, our pension, benefits and retirement benefits and job security will not be touched. If a No vote wins, then the above will be back on the table for negotiation.
If a Yes vote wins, then offer those with a pension that are still working an incentive to leave. For those who are close to retirement, offer an early unreduced pension. It will save money and be cheaper in the long run.
If a No vote wins, because you think you ARE ENTITLED to more then expect lay offs. Better yet join the military, they’re hiring. All other government jobs are being slashed.
You don’t know if government jobs are being slashed, just speculation right now
Theres a good % of the work force that would probably take A payout. Its A win win!
Have you checked out the French comments? Incroyable!
How many mailing do I need? When is the vote! My god….
THIS
IF WE VOTE NO YOU CAN EXPECT BEING LOCKED OUT, IT IS INEVITABLE. VOTE YES AND LIVE TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY.
then let’s vote NO, go ahead and lock me out. I don’t care CPC
If its so bad at CPC go get another job…funny you and others have no problem taking your cheques every 2 weeks…Is it a great company? Absolutely not but you may just get locked out with no job to come back to
Lol..go elsewhere see what your talent gets you..
Dont have to! Retiring by end of year or sooner!
Too many CP workers just don’t care. That’s why Canadians have lost faith in them and are taking their business elsewhere.
This is learned behaviour from management down. Been here 20 yrs, and I’ve never heard the words I don’t care so much from management in this company. This doesn’t happen in other companies that I’ve worked for or are working for prensently
How do you fight another day when you sign a contract?
Keep seeing this grave situation with your CUPW rose colored glasses.We are 20+ yrs behind in technology and all the competitors are up to date.CPC is already hanging on by a thread and no one is going to save us except a YES vote and all that’ll do is buy us time. Start polishing up your resume
Finally someone makes sense
And whose fault is all this? Why should we accept all blame and cuts? You even said 20 + years of this. Remove all upper management first! Then MAYBE i might vote yes
20+ years of being behind in technology is what I said but the PO should be cutting top to bottom and also not by seniority…get rid of ALL THE SLACKERS.
They can’t get rid of management most are related to each other
Why expect workers to pay for the bad boardroom decisions, why not ask workers how much the cost of a stamp should be, or how much management bonuses should be, how much management salaries should be, etc
There will be future contracts. Figure it out.
pfffffft
Today CPC processed my Amazon return – get this – without a box! Even more shocking – my money was returned electronically to my payment method! Here I thought they Amazon would send me a cheque
Don’t cry CUPW, get with the times. Change is inevitable.
They are doing this to combine as many items to one bigger box, means less money for CPC, don’t celebrate this it’s less items in the system
Please don’t pretend that you know what you are talking about. They are bagged up at the PO and that takes up less space for when they are returned on a pallet or mono. It has nothing to do with piece rate or combining for less revenue. Need I also mention that the same option exists for Puro and Intelcom, except Intelcom will pick it up from your house as well. The reason that Amazon is our biggest customer is because of innovative technologies like this.
We were literally told this by a CPC employee when we did a return, that it is a cost saving measure for Amazon when returning items. It will definitely mean less items in the system
Like I said, it’s already being done by the competition. What don’t you understand about this? Having the postal network makes it easy and because it’s easy, it’s more money.
Love the snarky, know it all attitude. Lower management perhaps?
Not sure why you are upset, the poster said the same thing as you did
What a great offer. Job security, defined pension, post retirement benefits
. And, good
Wage increase, why would I vote no and be out on the picket line?
This public service announcement is brought to you by CPC
The public service announcement guy is back.
I haven’t left
Yeah what’s not to love? Longer routes, later start times, walking in the dark, dynamic routing, ssd…yeah good times
The days of going home a few hours early are over! Get used to working a full 8 hour shift.
Have been for a while now, the days of going home early are gone
UPS works till 10pm. This is what you need to do to win. Parking a fleet at 2pm is beyond ridiculous
Remember this Boss; Postal Worker: People will adapt, good letter carriers (me) will get used to the system and finish in less than 8…. the majority will do it and go home earlier than 8.
You’re answer; Exactly, that’s why this is so frustrating. It’s going to be fine. They don’t pile on work when you get back.
And now you’re not happy with the fleet parked at 2pm.
You will only hurt yourself if done in less than 8. If you do and they know you will be expected to do more work at straight time. CPC have totally lost their minds.
That’s fantastic, Canada post works 3 shifts too, what’s your point?
Canada post and winning have never been mentioned in the same sentence lol
Don’t be fooled by the wage offer. You are already @ 5% with the current cola so their 6% offer is only 1% in reality. Because each subsequent increase is a percentage one you will never realize the full increase the corp wants you to believe.
You forgot to include the five thousand dollars you lost on the picket line…. Let’s go back and strike some more. So we could lose another 5000 or much more. Or get locked out and lose again? It’s time to vote. I don’t see why it’s taking these fools so long to put the offer to a vote
Ahahaha!! You got to be kidding.
If we didn’t get the COLA, you are saying we only got a 1% raise then. It’s COLA on top of the 6%.
Because CUPW is not liking this one bit and if NO wins theyll be haha UNTIL everyone is locked out and sold out from under us.Thats what they’re aiming for because they know if YES wins itll be the YES voters laughing at them!
Union just sent out an email stating the effects if a no vote wins. Union says if a no vote wins both sides must make a commitment to stay at the bargaining table until an agreement is reached. I laughed so hard my dentures almost flew out. If a no vote wins, that is a clear indication employees want no government interference , therefore no arbitration so cupw has to fight its own battle. Canada post will lock out the employees until the new mandate is introduced in fall. Negotiations will start over with the new Canada post mandate as guidance for a new contract. For the next few months cupw execs will be sitting at the bargaining table all by themselves living the good life while employees will be looking for alternate work to try and avoid losing the house, the car and keeping everyone fed.
so true
You are speculating, and sowing fear
It is CUPW who sows fear!
The reality is, change is coming. If we don’t accept what’s left of this 4 year contract changes that and layoffs will happen a lot sooner, don’t be fooled by the union.
This is the most logical post I’ve seen here in a long time. Totally agree. Just a day ago the union was all in on arbitration but now they want to bargain indefinitely. Final offer means they are done with offers and No means no more work.
So true. Cupw cant make a decision. First, no to arbitration. Then, yes arbitration. Now, sit at a bargaining table and no arbitration. What a joke! And no mention to members that even if cupw doesnt call a strike cpc could lock us out… indefinitely. If cpc is losing as much as i hear a day in money, they may save it by a lockout. Vote yes… get some security for a couple of years at least. Come back then with a better bargaining plan. Maybe cupw will be gone and well have a new non self serving non political union to represent us.
To be fair, CPC has said “final offer” many times before and afterwards raised the offer…
Worst union ever I’ve belonged to a few, and this one doesn’t even come close to what a real union does for its members like.For starters just listen
Membership has a voice in local monthly meetings, and they are listen to. No real Union would accept was CP is doing now including the way CP acted during the negotiations
The union is you and me be active instead of complaining without the union see what they will do
Never! Been here 28 yrs.
Let’s hold out for their FINAL final offer.
“What is past is prologue” Canada Post will never negotiated in the future. Final offer then force vote under the threat of lockout!
Lol. Either you haven’t worked here very long or you’re just using scare tactics. It definitely doesn’t mean no more work, no more offers
I agree, I really wish cupw would stop trying to bully people into a NO vote, making it seem it’s the only way to go and everyone will bargain in good faith. What a joke!!! I agree that if a NO vote is decided, we will be locked out and we the members will be screwed!!! Not the cupw exec.’s. They’ll still get paid while we, the members, sit at home wondering if we’ll have a job in the near future. Enough is enough, it’s gone on far too long, let us vote already and get on with life and seriously start thinking about how to get cupw OUT!!!
Vote No
100% agree.
CUPW know there is a good chance they will lose in arbitration the majority of what they are fighting for.
Hence, after reading the recent message by CUPW there is no mention of binding arbitration since the union keeps flip-flopping on their stance.
They apparently think resuming arbitration will solve the issue when the CPC refuse to sit down listening to the union firm stance on issues we all know are done deals like SSD, PT Flex and no more OT.
We all know this since it was the union who put out the OT ban, playing right into the hands of the corporation. Great way to anger your membership and the general public.
Since June ,CP has been losing 10million dollars a day.. that’s insane! I have no idea how this company will survive, even if Yes wins and we finally sign a contract! If I keep on have debts accumulating every month , the bank would’ve already came to take over my house and property and I would be bankrupt…
With this amount of Debt CPC is having , I suspect that soon there will be no other option then layoffs or privatization, unless something really big happens that suddenly brings tons of business into CP!
Don’t live in fear, that is all this forum breeds is fear
Fear or basic common sense?
It’s not fear, it’s reality. Things have to change, there is no main or parcels in the system. Customers won’t ship with us because of the uncertainty.
CUPW has CPC right where they want them.
Cupw thinks we won’t get locked out of it’s a no vote
. They think CP will come back to the table ?? Cupw I’m calling you out on this one….I am taking this offer and going my own path finally, not yours
Try using your brain for just one second…there is an absolute ZERO chance that Canada Post will lock out workers if the “no” vote wins. The Minister Of Jobs And Families, Patricia Hajdu, would never allow that to happen after taking away the rights of all workers by forcing this vote. Canada Post would be forced to negotiate or go to arbitration…that’s it, just those two options. Think for just one minute before you show us all how little you understand about this process!
Don’t worry it’s just another soup getting paid to sit at their desk
What is the colour of the sky in your world ? We will be locked out for sure and not for a short period of time. All parcels will go to Purolator and CPC will be left with dying letter mail, a much smaller workforce and a ticking clock until the end. This is all about the parcel business. I am totally amazed that LC’s don’t see this. Even more astounding is that CUPW doesn’t recognize it either.
Lockout won’t happen, not after all that has happened, especially with the loan. The government would lose its mind
If the 10 mil daily loss is accurate, that leaves 130 days until the $1.3 billion loan from the government is spent, and the vote hasn’t even happened yet. Is the government going to pony up another billion in three months to keep us afloat while the two sides ‘negotiate?’ Common sense suggests a lockout to cut labour costs, rather than pay 55 000 employees to do nothing.
When has CPC ever had an internal review done by the government? When has the government ever intervened to have an offer voted on? Negotiations have NEVER gone this way, yet you believe you understand this process more than everyone else. We would all love to hear more about what you “know.”
I will tell you precisely what I know. I know that Canada Post is still a Crown Corporation, that, even though their money doesn’t come from the government, they still have to obey the government regulations set to them…like letter mail. No other company, as per law, can deliver mail in this country. None. If the government interferes in the negotiations process protected by the Charter Of Rights, and the workers say “no”, do you really think the government is just gonna let the corporation shut down??? There is absolutely no chance of that happening. The minister of jobs and families, Patty Hajdu, said she needed to intervene because it’s the best thing to do for “public interest”. Do you really think, when CP loses, she’ll allow the corporation to stop operations?? The makes no sense whatsoever!
I agree with the yes vote, arbitration has always been worse than the final offer that cupw rejected. Don’t want arbitration or a lock out, take this offer.
Since there is absolutely no work in the plants and depots, you don’t think layoffs are an option. It’s inevitable, you can’t keep paying us if there is no work.
I understand that the Canada Industrial Relations Board will be running the vote electronically (with a phone-in fallback) and that PINs will be sent after the July 7th email-verification deadline. Does anyone know when the CIRB is expected to formally issue the Notice of Vote and what the actual voting dates might be?
I’m hearing 100% before XMAS
The choice is ours not cupw or the company.
I would be curious to know just how much money Canada post has now spent on videos, mailings, postings, tv spots etc., considering their claims about massive profits. Perhaps, just perhaps, they wouldn’t need to go after endless cuts, if they put this kind of spending into negotiations, and we wouldn’t be where we are now.
Exactly, our depot has been saying the same thing!
Remember when CPC said that it didn’t want to go through arbitration because it would take to long? Lol.
Remember when CUPW said no to arbitration last fall when CPC offered them that route? Now the Union is crying for arbitration! Lol
Remember when CUPW said they didn’t want to go to arbitration because lawyers would be involved and that money would be better spent on improved pay and benefits for employees? lol
The Champ wants to
Vote already.
So do I, ready to get that yes vote registered.
Got my yes vote here, let’s get this done.
Read Canada Post offer. Reread it. Understood it. Won’t change my life. Will vote YES. Pls vote NO so I’ll have someone to prove I right I am ny voting YES. THANK YOU
Oh it’ll change everything for all of us
Sorry I have a ‘no junk mail’ sign on my mailbox
Yeah I just threw that propaganda in the trash when I got it. Another waste of money.
You are one of the people who is probably a waste of money and a drain on the company.
Cupw has no plan and they proved it once again with these negotiations. We pay a lot of money in union dues and DESERVE a real negotiating committee. Vote Yes or get less with arbitration
Please review CUPW’s history when forced into arbitration. The Union has an excellent track record in making gains through arbitration. Only the Cossette award in 1987 resulted in major set backs, and only for Group 1. When it comes to arbitration the Union is much stronger than the corporation as the union draws on the experience of 55k members while mgmt relies on its incompetent supervisory staff.
Remember when there was Pontiac, Blockbuster, Kodak?
These relics are all in the dustbin of history. Your argument about past triumphs holds no weight anymore.
This isn’t their vote, it’s independent and the CIRB doesn’t care about the company losing $10 million a day. Yet, you and your people will say the fix is in. You sound like a flat earther at this point. The company has offered you a deal at this point, with arbitration being based on current market conditions, there will be no bonus, no flyer pay, no overtime and no guaranteed jobs. The game has changed.