Canada Post's Deepak Chopra says seniors want exercise from picking up mail

[CHIMO]

Source: CBC News

An emergency parliamentary committee is asking questions about cancellation of urban mail delivery


Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-post-s-deepak-chopra-says-seniors-want-exercise-from-picking-up-mail-1.2469061

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Dec 18, 2013 2:53 PM ET| Last Updated: Dec 18, 2013 7:22 PM ET

[DRoseDARs]

1. Yep, still an asshole and a charlatan. Edited:

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Edit: As pointed out later in the thread, this is amazingly a DIFFERENT Deepak Chopra. However, the other one is still an asshole and charlatan. And so is this one.

[Archae]

2. Deepak Chopra is a quack.

http://www.skepdic.com/chopra.html

[LeftyMom]

3. Not that Deepak Chopra.

There's another guy by the same name at Canada Post.

[Archae]

4. What's he like?

Sounds kind of iffy to me.

[LeftyMom]

6. No clue, I'm not Canadian. But I saw another thread on this and somebody clarified about the name.

[niyad]

11. see that they are two different guys, but there is a resemblance.

this is the dr:




this is the ceo of canada post:

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[eggplant]

21. A resemblance because they share the same name?

Personally, I don't think they look at all alike.

[Hissyspit]

5. Not the same guy.

[Scootaloo]

9. Wow, that's an unfortunate coincidence n/t

[freshwest]

8. I have some old friends for whom going to the mail is a big deal and it makes them feel part of life

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again, instead of being house bound.

And I support keeping rural mail, not only for the elderly who want to walk there, but as part of a society that values those who aren't cookie cutter into being online.

Some seniors I know are not online at all, they don't have time or the resources. Really, they don't, being elderly is not sitting around eating bonbons, but taking care of a lot of stuff that younger people don't even know exists.

The war on the post office is part of the war to civil society, on unions, those who can't afford being online, or cannot meet schedules or drive.

I count on my mail being delivered to my place when the weather is bad and I can't drive in the ice and snow or be at the Post Office during their hours or standing in line there. I sure as hell can't drive miles away to a UPS or FedEx office.

Chopra was probably speaking about supporting social cohesion. We need more voices, not less, speaking for this.

Do we want to see the gentrification that has afflicted major cities be carried out in rural areas with many kinds of people living there, making their lives harder than it was for us for so many years?

[BeyondGeography]

10. Internet access is also an expensive and iffy proposition in many rural areas

A big fat rip-off, actually. Places aren't wired and providers take advantage, offering least-bad option type packages. Service can be spotty and, when it's good, you pay through the nose for anything more than basic Net-surfing (forget streaming, e.g.).

[freshwest]

12. DU is supposedly pro-postal service, public workers, rural and disabled getting services, etc.

The link shows this action is by corporatists who took over the post office, jacked up prices and are cutting less empowered groups out of the mainstream, to destroy the Commons in Canada.

The article has little to do with Chopra or his religion. IIRC the man is a Hindu. NMP.

I support public workers and public services for all to keep equality for all in Canada. This is just a small part of the Koch mentality working to knock Canadians to their knees.

Happy Holidays anyway.

[grantcart]

13. The loss of first class mail is not a Koch conspiracy and has a dramatic effect on

mail around the world.

My work takes me into regional mail processing centers and the loss of volume is absolutely staggering. With increased automation and the dramatic fall off of first class mail some of these centers only occupy a third of the space that they used to and now run on two shifts instead of three.

Rather than fighting the realities of advancing technology and how it effects personal and business communication I think that we would be better supporters of the USPS if we advocated:

1) That the advanced payment into the Federal Employee Retirement System which Congress mandated be stopped

2) Restrictions that Congress has put on USPS that doesn't exist in other countries be eliminated, especially in allowing them to expand into personal business centers, including personal financial services, or Postal savings accounts:

https://www.stlbeacon.org/#!/content/24502/postal_savings_accounts_042012

When Americans drop by their local post offices to buy stamps or ship packages, they could also deposit money into postal savings accounts — a practice popular throughout the world, explains Sheldon Garon, author of “Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves.’’

“It’s something that sounds like lunacy here, but it just happens to be perfectly normal everywhere else in the world,’’ said Garon, who will speak Thursday at a program on the importance of saving at the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank.


“In Japan, the world’s largest bank is the Japanese postal system. The French system is very strong; the British system is somewhat privatized but very strong. Germany is semi-privatized but very strong,’’ he said. “In other words, they’re everywhere and also in the developing world.’’

3) Allow the Post Office to develop new models of commercial delivery that will help local retail take advantage of the internet. For example as some people start to use the internet to buy produce and food allow the post office to add refrigeration and same day pick up and delivery for commercial retail orders.

We should be helping the USPS match the needs of the 21st Century and not marry it to the patterns of the 19th.

[freshwest]

14. Do you support privatization of public services? From the link:

Chopra said Canadians were widely consulted about changes and if they read newspapers and follow the media they shouldn't have been taken by surprise when the corporation announced it was raising stamp prices and cancelling door-to-door delivery. Chopra said 46 communities were consulted about losing daily mail service.

His claim that Canadians should have been aware major changes were coming didn't wash with NDP MP Paul Dewar, who angrily told Chopra that Canadians actually "didn't have a clue" about losing door-to-door delivery.

Canada Post announced last week it would phase out door-to-door mail delivery in urban areas and plans to raise the price of an individual stamp to $1.

I'm also aware the USPS is a corporation that is being set upon by privatization forces in D.C. And the postal service where I live is quite busy, and does work with email, has modernized and is hiring at a starting salary of $15 a week for carriers. We're not going to the 19th century, we're serving all our citizens.

[grantcart]

15. I think the answer to your question is in the three points I mentioned,

particularly allowing the USPS to expand into Postal Savings Accounts.

[freshwest]

16. You have your business, and we'll just have to disagree. It's not offered here. n/t

[grantcart]

17. You have lost me on your antecedents. What "it" is not offered "where".

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. You seem a little confused; this Deepak Chopra is the CEO of Canada Post

so, yes, the article has a lot to do with Chopra; though nothing about his religion (you're the only one who has brought that up).

And it's very hard to tell whether you support Chopra or not; you say in #8 "I have some old friends for whom going to the mail is a big deal and it makes them feel part of life again, instead of being house bound.

And I support keeping rural mail, not only for the elderly who want to walk there, but as part of a society that values those who aren't cookie cutter into being online. "

which seems to say you're in favour of mail that you have to fetch, rather than deliveries; but then you say "I count on my mail being delivered to my place when the weather is bad and I can't drive in the ice and snow or be at the Post Office during their hours or standing in line there." So you seem to be saying you want your mail delivered, but not that of old people. Or are you saying everyone should be able to choose?

But, after apparently supporting Chopra and his claim that "old people like the activity of walking to fetch their mail", you then denounce him as a corporatist with a Koch mentality, jacking up prices and cutting less empowered groups out of the mainstream, to destroy the Commons in Canada.

[avaistheone1]

18. Creepy guy.

I don't believe a word of it.

[Turbineguy]

19. Maybe he learned it from Reagan

he said homeless people like fresh air.