Canada Post will shortly launch trials of same-day home deliveries of goods bought online frommajor retailers to Toronto residents, according to Canadian postal union CUPW.
Customers who order products before 13.00 from participating retail stores can have theirproducts delivered to their residences between 17.30 and 21.00. Companies that have agreed to bepart of the pilot include Future Shop, Best Buy, Indigo and Walmart.
The CUPW said it has reached a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the postal operator for thetrial introduction of the new same-day parcel delivery service. The pilot will be officiallylaunched in September 2013 in the Greater Toronto Area.
“In piloting this new service Canada Post is following the example of many other postaladministrations who already offer same-day delivery in major urban centres. CUPW is supportive ofthis project as we believe that it is service expansion, not cutbacks and closures, which is thesolution to the problems associated with the decline in letter mail,” stated Gayle Bossenberry,CUPW 1st National Vice-President.
Some 22 part-time letter carriers and four full-time relief letter carriers will be involved inthe pilot project.
The CUPW said the MoA covers issues such as the bidding process, relief and provides forback-filling of all positions during the pilot. The union will be provided with comprehensiveinformation on an ongoing basis, union representatives will observe the operations at regularintervals and both parties will review the results at the termination of the project.
