Customer Base
Canada Post services approximately 15.3 million addresses, of which only 5 million receive door-to-door mail delivery. The balance of the 10.3 million addresses are served by a centralized point, with 3.9 million of those addresses having a neighbourhood community mailbox as their centralized point of delivery.The number of delivery addresses has been increasing at an average of 169 thousand addresses per year over the past 5 years. At an average annual cost of 168 dollars per address, operating expenses related to new addresses are increasing by 28.4 million dollars per year.
Annual Profits and Revenues
Canada Post has annual profits of 118.2 million dollars (5 yr average) on an annual revenues of 7.5 billion dollars (5 yr average). |
| Source: Canada Post 2012 Annual Report |
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers frequently cite an 18 year average annual profit of 139 million dollars both to provide an inflated view of Canada Post's 'current' viability and to imply that this level of profitability can continue. However, past profitability can never be used as an predictor of future profitability.
Total Mail Volume
Canada Post has a 5 year average Total Mail Volume of 10.8 billion pieces. Total Mail Volume is broken down by market segment:- Direct Marketing - Addressed and unaddressed Admail,
- Transactional Mail - Lettermail,
- Parcels.
Canada Post has a the following 2011 - 2012 two year average Mail volumes:
- Direct Marketing Volume of 5.1 billion pieces,
- Transactional Mail volume of 4.5 billion pieces,
- Parcel volume of 148 million pieces.
