Canada Post Resumes Service

Canada Post is open for business again. The crown corporation informed other countries’ postal operators that they could resume sending mail effective October 13, now that the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) has moved from a full national strike to rotating strikes. The union announced last week that it would move to rotating strikes on October 11 so that mail and parcels could start moving again while the parties continued to work on a collective bargaining agreement. While Canada Post has welcomed the union’s move, it warned residents and other postal operators to expect delays and backlogs due to the rotating strikes. Still, the post was making good progress on clearing the backlog and mailers were optimistic that Canada Post would be current by the end of next week (Oct. 24 or so).

The U.S. Postal Service reported that Canada Post had begun dispatching to the U.S. again and transportation routes and volumes were returning to normal.