CUPW's escalating strikes causing backlogs and delays for Canada Post customers
OTTAWA, Oct. 31, 2018 /CNW/ - Canadians can expect to see delays in receiving their online purchases as escalating strike activity by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) continues to impact Canada Post.
Since October 22nd, CUPW's rotating strikes have shut down Canada Post's operations in 52 cities and towns across the country. The union has ramped up their strike activity quickly, adding more communities each day and shutting down major processing centres for 48 hours.
Canada Post has been working hard to minimize the service impact to Canadians, but the escalating strikes have shut down our three largest processing facilities in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal up to 48 hours. As Canada's leading parcel delivery company, our network is large and integrated. Combined, those three plants can process a million parcels and packets a day for communities across the country.
At this point there is a backlog of over 150 trailers in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal of items waiting to be unloaded and processed, with more arriving every day. Once processed, these items have to be delivered without overburdening our delivery employees. As a result, customers could see delays of several days.
We are working hard to reach an agreement with the assistance of the special mediator. We apologize to our customers for the delays and will continue to work to reduce the back log and the resulting delays.
Customers can go to canadapost.ca/update for updates or follow us on twitter @canadapostcorp for the latest developments.
SOURCE Canada Post
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