Canada Post is on strike. What this means for your mail

Postal supplies in Canada should stop, as thousands of postal workers throughout the country left work.

A nationwide strike occurs after the Canadian government authorized widespread reforms in Canada, which will close several post offices and complete the delivery from the door to the door.

The Canadian postal service – like the Royal Mail of Great Britain and the postal service of the United States – over the past decades, there has been acceleration of mail delivery and subsequent financial disabilities.

The strike on the part of the postal union also occurs against the backdrop of the ongoing dispute about wages and benefits, which led to a week at the end of last year.

Prime Minister Mark Carney said that “significant changes” are necessary in Canada to make him “viable”.

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A nationwide strike began on September 25, and Canada post stated that the operations were closed during the strike, leaving mail and parcels cannot be reached for millions of Canadians.

The postal service also does not offer guarantees of service for items that were already on the network when the strike was called, and is currently not accepting new items.

However, checks of state social security will still be delivered.

Applications for passports will still be processed, and residents may request that the document be available for personal selection if necessary.

Postal workers left work to protest against what the trade union called the “huge” reduction in services declared by the federal government, saying that they could lead to serious loss of work.

The strike was started just a few hours after the federal government announced that it allows significant changes in Canada Post, which is Crown Corporation, a state organization that operates at the length of ARM and is structured as a private company.

New measures include the completion of mail delivery from the door to the door to four million houses, where they will be replaced by alternatives, such as the mailboxes of the community; The permission of non -term mail is moved to the ground instead of air and reducing the number of delivery days; close some post offices that were in areas, once rural; and providing the service of greater flexibility for raising prices.

Some will be in stages for almost decades.

The Union of Postal Workers, CUPW, called this announcement “a direct attack on our state mail, the right of the public to participate in political processes and good, trade union jobs throughout the country.”

Meanwhile, the Canada Post warned that the strike “further worsens the financial situation in Canada Post -.”

This happens during the strike of postal workers in November last year from the payment and working conditions.

In December, on the eve of the intense festive season, the Canadian government ordered postal workers to return to work.

But these issues remain unresolved, and negotiations between the trade union and the postal service continue.

This is unclear.

Canada Post reported CuPW It plans to submit new offers to the trade union in early October.

He planned to submit a new proposal on September 26, but he had to revise it after the changes declared Ottava.

The press secretary of the corporation stated in an interview with the media that a wide gap remains between the two parties on issues such as part-time staff and raising wages.

The union and the postal service spent almost two years unsuccessfully bidding on a new agreement.

On September 29, the Minister of Work Places Patti Hadema announced the Canadian press service that she did not exclude federal intervention to put an end to this strike, but urged Canada to quickly put a new offer to the trade union.

The strike in November 2024 lasted a little more than a month – 32 days – before the federal government became the legislation of Canada.

Extensive measures to “stabilize” the postal service announced by OTTAWA follow the years of financial losses incurred by Canada Post, which is faced with a decrease in demand and rigid competition from private packages delivery services.

Review of the situation In Canada, a post ordered by Ottawa in 2024 established that the postal service “is faced with an existential crisis” and is “an effective insolvent or bankrupt.”

These are three main income streams – a letter by mail, mail with direct marketing and mail – all in a decrease, or out of lack of demand, or due to severe competition from other courier services.

Twenty years ago, the post of Canada delivered 5.5 billion letters. By 2023, this number fell to 2.2 billion. Since 2019, its share in the preference market also decreased from 62% to 24%.

According to the Federal Minister of Procurees Joel Lightbaund, Canada lost $ 1 billion. USA ($ 717; 535 million pounds) and this year will lose $ 1.5 billion. USA this year.

In the second quarter of this year, he lost $ 407 million.

In January, Ottawa borrowed 1 billion dollars to help her continue to work.

CUPW offered the postal service to study other income flows, including the offer of banking and insurance services – the market already “well -served” in Canada, according to the review of mail services – and expansion to the provision of passport and other public services.

For her part, the Canada Post said that it is necessary to focus on the main services, such as the expansion of the delivery of parcels from five to seven days a week.

These are not the first reforms in the postal service.

The conservative government was moving forward with final deliveries from the door to the door against the backdrop of a public opposition, but this change was suspended when in 2015 the former Prime Minister Liberal Justin Trudeau came to power.