- The Canada Post Defined Benefit Pension plan covers all permanent full and part time letter carriers, MSCs, clerks, RSMCs (who have routes over 12 hours a week), clerks, mail handlers, dispatchers, technical services, and RSMC Permanent Relief.In a limited number of situations, it covers temporary Urban Operations workers who are covering a single known in advance assignment of six months or more.
- CUPW has successfully resisted rollback demands from Canada Post that would have made new hires part of a Defined Contribution Pension Plan. New hires, in both the CUPW Urban Operations and RSMC bargaining Units (who meet the criteria outlined in point one) are covered by the Canada Post Defined Benefit Pension Plan. New hires in some other Canada Post bargaining units are part of a less secure pension plan –a Defined Contribution Pension Plan.
- A Defined Benefit Pension Plan is the most secure type of pension plan.