Postal service

This is a buyer, not a market to enter. The Canada Post Corporation Act gives the Corporation 'the sole and exclusive privilege of collecting, transmitting and delivering letters to the addressee thereof within Canada', with a narrow exception for urgent letters carried by messenger at no less than three times the regular postage [A]. The letter business cannot be entered at any price, and the parcel business — which can — is not in this code at all; it is couriers, at 492. What the code does hold beyond the Crown corporation is a fringe of contractors: the definition includes establishments that 'carry on one or more functions of the postal service on a contract basis', and that is what most of the 214 establishments are — 114 have fewer than five employees, while the 27 with 500 or more are the Corporation's own plants and depots. So the enterable proposition is a contract to perform a postal function, and the question becomes what kind of customer this is. In 2025 Canada Post reported a loss before tax of $1.57B, up from $841M, its largest on record; Parcels revenue fell $850M, or 30.1%, as volumes dropped by a third; and it took $1.034B of repayable government funding, with up to $1.008B more approved in early 2026 [A]. A sole buyer, losing money at that rate, funded by loans from its shareholder and under pressure to shrink its network, sets the contractor's price and can end the function. What is sold to it — sortation equipment, fleet, logistics software, retail counter hosting — belongs on the suppliers' own records, not here.