I feel your pain, but to be factual, Canada Post employees are no longer a part of the civil service since 1981, when it transitioned to become a crown corporation.    Mind you, it appears the government is trying once again to treat it as if it were a government department.   The objective of the 1981 transformation into a crown corporation was to have it run with a businesslike focus.  In its last years as a government department, the post office was losing money hand over fist, I think it was over $500 million lost in 1980.