I lived next door to a Canada post employee about ten years ago. The guy would be done about 11 or 12PM and head to the beach. He would still get a full days pay. The average salary for a CP carrier is almost $60k a year this doesn’t include a very lucrative benefit package.
I’m a firm believer that people should be paid a living wage but pay should also reflect the required skills to do the job. Technically all a carrier/sorter is a glorified paper boy. A more reasonable pay top out for such a job would be $17 -$18hr.
I was employed for 25 years by the (Oz) Government,the rest of the time in the Private sector.
I worked harder for the Govt than the Private Companies ever asked me to.
On one occasion with a Private employer,I got the TV transmitter site back on air in "jury-rigged" fashion, after a lightning strike,even though I wasn't the "on call" person---I was about 20minutes closer.
I was commended by my Boss,& given a small pay increase.
In the Govt job,it would have been "what took you so long?"
Efficiency? About the same,although one private job wasted a lot of time doing dumb stuff!
The civil service in Australia seems to be much better then Canada. I’ll give some examples. I go to pay duty on some items about 10 CSB officers sitting around shooting the shit not one knows how to collect the import duties. I call on behalf of my mother to get additional taxes taken off her pension cheques I was told to go to another federal department. The individual in barely understandable English said it was too hard for him to do it. I finally had to go to my MP to complain so they would actually take off the right amount. No wonder there are so many delinquent taxes it’s probably because they have a bunch of half-wits in charge of collecting them. I could write a small book.
I think the problem mainly stems from government positions requiring equal representation of race, gender etc.. The actual ability to do the job is somewhere at the bottom of requirements. Rarely can you actually talk to someone who speaks English.
Job postings have actually stated white males need not apply. PM Harper is supposed to do something about that.
end rant 
The Public Service
used to be better here than it is now,& remember,we were Techs doing real jobs!
A Transmitter fault wouldn't wait till we had a cup of tea before fixing it--the viewers would probably lynch us if the Cricket was on!!
We never wore striped trousers like the bloke in "Yes Minister"---& I never saw a tea lady until I went back to the Private Sector!!
Even the old guys at the counters knew their stuff back then,so you weren't given the runaround.
On one occasion,we were selling our house,which we bought before we were married & the Settlement Agent got in a total mess because of some name differences.
We came down from the country,visited two State Government Departments & sorted the problem out then & there,in about 10 minutes at each place.
Of course,when the Governments updated how they did things,all these people who knew stuff got made redundant!
The Bosses of these places used to be Senior Public Servants, who were paid about 3 times what the average worker got.
Now,as they have to compete with the Private Sector,the Bosses get about 60 times more!
Ain't progress great!
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