Canada Post CEO defends end of home delivery, says seniors will get more exercise

[Newsjock]

Source: The Globe and Mail

Canada Post’s top executive says ending home delivery and shifting millions of Canadians to community mail boxes offers at least one upside – more exercise for seniors.

Making his first public appearance since the post office announced a controversial plan to stem mounting losses, Canada Post chief executive Deepak Chopra cast the austerity moves as careful balance between the competing needs of Canadians and the Crown corporation’s dire financial predicament.

The changes include an end to home delivery of letters, a 35 per cent hike in the price of stamps and the elimination of up to 8,000 jobs.

... “The seniors are telling me; ‘I want to be healthy. I want to be active in my life,’ ” Mr. Chopra told MPs. “They want to be living fuller lives.”

Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-post-ceo-to-be-questioned-by-mps-in-emergency-session/article16024432/

[geomon666]

1. Yup, that sounds like something a CEO would say.

I wonder, is it part of the job description to not give a shit about human beings? Can we get a CEO in here to answer this?

[Drew Richards]

2. I would like to hear how Canadian DUers feel about this.