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Canada Post selling off logistics business as part of effort to 'transform' Crown corp (www.cbc.ca)
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[โ€“] gramie@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

International parcel rates were set a long time ago, and countries that were designated "poor" had a large discount in their rates, subsidized by the developed countries.

At the time, no one imagined that China would be supplying the entire world.

[โ€“] ddmgmgh@mstdn.ca 2 points 2 years ago

@gramie Yes, exactly. It is long past time that policy be revisited instead of gutting our own postal service to keep feeding that monster.