Local striking Canada Post workers Carrie Graham, left, Ryan Pawlowski and Edward Carey stand near a mailbox recently set up by strikers to accept Santa letters at the Canada Post location on Lasalle Boulevard in Sudbury, Ont. on Friday December 13, 2024.Photo by John Lappa/John Lappa/Sudbury Star

'We've lost Christmas': Canada Post won't be able to deliver holiday packages, experts say

Canada Post reportedly missed delivering 12 million parcels in early December

by · National Post

Those hoping to receive holiday presents by mail sent via Canada Post will not be getting a Christmas miracle. It could take around a month to clear the backlog of packages and letters, estimates one expert.

“It’s not like going in the garage after you’ve been gone for three weeks and starting up your car. It’s probably going to be five days before they can even start to process stuff, I would expect, in some of these larger facilities,” professor of operations management at Western University’s Ivey Business School Fraser Johnson told the Toronto Star.

Most Canadians minimally affected by Canada Post strike, survey findsAs the strike by Canada Post workers nears the end of its third week, a new poll by Angus Reid finds Canadians split in their sympathies between the Crown corporation and its striking employees. However, the same poll also noted that a sizeable majority of the more than 3,000 surveyed said they were minimally affected by the strike, or in some cases not at all.Chris Knight, 05 Dec 2024Empty mailbox: What will be lost if Canada Post goes out of business?NETHERHILL, SASK. — The letters would arrive as if by magic carpet — a folded sheet of ink-blotted paper borne across an ocean of fear. It was the Canadian prairie in 1957: the grit of the homesteaders, the groan of the wind, the tight-clenched grip of winter.Allen Abel, 10 Dec 2024