The Deerfoot MOA was a lie!
The Deerfoot MOA – An alternative to SSD?
In Deerfoot, Alberta, a Separate Sort from Delivery restructure was announced using Canada Post’s favourite excuse – the lack of floor space. Workers put their collective minds together and came up with a solution to the floor space issue that enabled 4 workers to use one sortation case. Under the Deerfoot Model, 2 carriers on each wave share the case. One carrier sorts their manual mail in the morning for that day’s delivery, the other sorts their manual mail in the afternoon for the next day’s delivery, similar to the SSD model but still using the sortation case with all its benefits such as red dots, redirection cards and the ability to keep case strips updated with the route.
The MOA became part of the 2022 contract!
In 2022, the Corporation agreed – in writing – to examine the Deerfoot model before implementing any future SSD restructures. But not once, not anywhere else in Canada has the Deerfoot model even been considered! It appears that this, along with other empty promises such as financial services at postal outlets, was nothing more than window dressing to get us to agree to a contract at a time where other Unions were beginning to demand their fair share for working through an unprecedented global pandemic while watching inflation eat away at their purchasing power.
