Editing Canada Post (section)

{{Short description|National postal operator of Canada}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=December 2023}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Canada Post Corporation<br />''{{smaller|{{nobold|{{lang|fr|Société canadienne des postes}}}}}}''
| logo = Canada Post logo.svg
| trade_name = Canada Post
| type = [[Crown corporation]]
| key_people = {{plainlist|
* André Hudon ([[Chair (officer)|chair]])
* Doug Ettinger ([[President (corporate title)|president]] and [[Chief executive officer|CEO]])
}}
| num_employees = 72,000<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/doc/en/aboutus/financialreports/2020-annual-financial-report.pdf |title=2020 Annual Financial Report |date= |website=Canada Post |access-date=March 14, 2022}}</ref>
| foundation = {{start date and age|1867|7|1}} (as Royal Mail Canada)
| location = 2701 Riverside Drive<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mr/assets/pdf/business/eBayOpenLetter_En.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2016-07-25 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817214854/https://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mr/assets/pdf/business/eBayOpenLetter_En.pdf |archive-date=2016-08-17 }}</ref><br />[[Ottawa]], Ontario<br />K1A 0B1
| subsid = [[Purolator Inc.]] (91%)
| industry = {{hlist|[[Postal service]]|[[Courier]]}}
| revenue = $11.69 billion<ref name="CPC_Finance">{{cite web|title=By the Numbers |url=https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/our-company/about-us/financial-reports/2022-annual-report/our-financial-results/by-the-numbers.page|access-date=September 7, 2023}}</ref>
| profit = $−287 million<ref name="CPC_Finance" />
| profit_year = 2024
| revenue_year = 2024
| services = [[Courier]]<br />[[Freight]]<br />[[Logistics]]|
| website = {{URL|https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/}}
| module = {{Infobox government agency
| child = yes
| name = 
| type = corporation
| minister1_name = [[Joël Lightbound]]
| minister1_pfo = [[Minister of Public Services and Procurement]]
| keydocument1 = 
}}
}}

'''Canada Post Corporation''' ({{langx|fr|Société canadienne des postes}}, trading as '''Canada Post''' ({{langx|fr|Postes Canada|links=no}}), is a Canadian [[Crown corporation]] that functions as the primary [[Postal administration|postal operator]] in [[Canada]].

Originally known as '''Royal Mail Canada''' (the operating name of the '''Post Office Department''' of the [[Canadian government]] founded in 1867), the ''Canada Post Corporation Act'' of 1981 abolished the Post Office Department and created the present-day Crown corporation that provides postal service.<ref name="C-10">{{cite web |url=http://www.laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-10/ |title=Canada Post Corporation Act |work=Department of Justice (Canada) |year=1985 |publisher=Justice Laws |access-date=May 1, 2014}}</ref> The act aimed to set a new direction for the postal service by ensuring its financial security and independence.<ref>[http://www.laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-10/page-2.html#h-6 Canada Post Corporation Act] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312225518/http://www.laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-10/page-2.html#h-6 |date=March 12, 2014 }} Part I Section 5</ref>

Canada Post provided service to more than 16 million addresses and delivered nearly 8.4 billion items in 2022 and consolidated revenue from operations reached $11.11 billion.<ref name="cpar2015">{{cite web|title=2016 Annual Report – Overview|url=https://www.canadapost.ca/assets/pdf/aboutus/financialreports/2016_ar_overview_en.pdf|publisher=[[Canada Post Corporation]]|access-date=9 June 2017|archive-date=11 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411160811/https://www.canadapost.ca/assets/pdf/aboutus/financialreports/2016_ar_overview_en.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Delivery takes place via traditional "to the door" service and centralized delivery by 25,000 letter carriers, through a 13,000 vehicle fleet. There are more than 6,200 post offices across the country, a combination of corporate offices and private franchises that are operated by retailers, such as drugstores. In terms of area serviced, Canada Post delivers to a larger area than the postal service of any other nation, including [[Russia]] (where [[Russian Post]] service in [[Siberia]] is limited largely to communities along the railway).{{Citation needed|date=March 2022}}  As of 2022, nearly 3.5 million rural Canadian customers received residential mail delivery services.<ref name="canada.com">{{cite web |url= http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=d75f323a-337c-4ee2-babf-6da5db2bab95|title= Canada Post set to deliver fatal blow to rural mail service|access-date=2009-02-17 |author= Randall Denley|date= May 3, 2008|publisher= [[The Ottawa Citizen]]}}</ref>

Canada Post operates as a group of companies called The Canada Post Group. It employs approximately 70,000 full and part-time employees. The Corporation holds an interest in [[Purolator Courier]], Innovapost, Progistix-Solutions and Canada Post International Limited.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.canadapost.ca/personal/corporate/about/newsroom/fast_facts/bin/popup_employees-e.asp |title=Canada Post-Fast Facts |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061003164720/http://www.canadapost.ca/personal/corporate/about/newsroom/fast_facts/bin/popup_employees-e.asp |archive-date=October 3, 2006 }}</ref>

''Canada Post'' (French: {{lang|fr|Postes Canada}}) is the [[Federal Identity Program]] name. The legal name is ''Canada Post Corporation'' in [[English language|English]] and {{lang|fr|Société canadienne des postes}} in [[French language|French]]. During the late 1980s and much of the 1990s, the short forms used in the corporation's logo were "Mail" (English) and "{{lang|fr|Poste}}" (French), rendered as  "Poste Mail" in [[Québec]] and "Mail Poste" in the other provinces.<ref>[http://www.ic.gc.ca/app/opic-cipo/trdmrks/srch/vwTrdmrk.do?lang=eng&status=&fileNumber=0577188&extension=0&startingDocumentIndexOnPage=1 MAIL POSTE & DESIGN trademark (application no. 0577188)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420185826/http://www.ic.gc.ca/app/opic-cipo/trdmrks/srch/vwTrdmrk.do?lang=eng&status=&fileNumber=0577188&extension=0&startingDocumentIndexOnPage=1 |date=April 20, 2016 }}, Canadian Intellectual Property Office, accessed 23 May 2010</ref> Although English-language advertising also still referred to the corporation as "Canada Post".
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