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In my view this is exactly the wrong move for the company. With a little vision that logistics business could be applied to making Canada Post a major player in the Canadian retail industry. They could start up their own Amazon like platform where Canadian retailers could sign up to sell their goods. Combine it with something like prime where you pay a yearly fee for delivery and they could drive a lot of their own parcel delivery business while playing a major role in widening the reach of local retailers to parts of the country they might not otherwise be able to serve.
I do everything I can to avoid buying from anyone who doesn't offer postal delivery. That includes paying a bit more for the product.
In 50 years of sending and receiving parcels, Canada Post is the only carrier that I've never felt was screwing me over somehow. Especially when about a third of the stuff that starts off with a courier service still ends up at the post office because they can't be bothered to deliver to the middle of nowhere.