If you are driving in Downtown Drumheller today by the post office, you may notice people with picket signs.
The local workers with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers are on strike with 55,000 other members across the country as of Friday morning. The workers went on strike after the announcement by Canada Post sharing that it plans to end door-to-door delivery almost everywhere throughout Canada within the next ten years.
The CUPW said it was caught off guard by the changes and argued that Canada Post and the government are creating the conditions that drive down demand.
Locally, there isn’t door-to-door service per se, but the local workers believe that there may be a reduction in service where residents will not get their mail delivered to their post office or super box mailbox on a daily basis, maybe only a couple of times a week. If that happens, it could mean a loss of employees at our local post office.
Canada Post has shared that no new mail will be accepted during the labour disruption. The only exceptions will be government welfare cheques and existing live-animal shipments will continue to be delivered, but no new live-animal shipments will be accepted.
-With excerpts from the Canadian Press-
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